OBIT: Vernon Oscar TROUTMAN, 1945, Meyersdale Rt., Somerset County, PA

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VERNON OSCAR TROUTMAN

Vernon Troutman Pronounced Dead By His Own Hand
Left His Wife's Home At Night and Went Out And Shot Himself

  Vernon Oscar Troutman, 26, Route 3, Meyersdale, Pa., and a veteran of World 
War II was found dead near the home of his father-in-law, Route 3, Meyersdale, 
early Monday morning.
  C. S. Beck, deputy coroner of Somerset County, issued a verdict of suicide and 
said Troutman shot himself in the neck with a 20 gauge shotgun.  Beck added the 
charge came out of the top of the head, and set the time of death at 1:30 a.m.
  Beck reported Troutman and his wife went to the Troutman home, near 
Wellersburg, Sunday, and returned to her home at Pocahontas, with the gun and a 
box of shells.
  He added Troutman left his father-in-law's home about 1 o'clock Monday 
morning, and that his wife called his father, Russell Troutman, for aid after 
she could not locate him.
  The father and brother, Beck added, found the body early yesterday morning on 
a hillside near the home.
  Troutman entered the army quartermaster corps February 11, 1941, and served 
until September 5, 1945, with the rank of technical fourth grade.  He received a 
medical discharge.  He served overseas 24 months.
  Troutman was a member of Wellersburg Evangelical Church, and of the Veterans 
of Foreign Wars.
  He was a native of Southampton Twp., a son of Russell Troutman and the late 
Anna Hall Troutman.
  Besides his wife, Mrs. Mildred Irene Baker Troutman, whom he married September 
19, 1944, he is survived by his father, his step-mother, Mrs. Nora Hosselrode 
Troutman; one daughter, Darlene Mildred Troutman; three brothers, Leroy, Harvey 
and Roy Troutman, and one sister, Verna Troutman.
  Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the 
Wellersburg Evangelical Church by the pastor, the Rev. W. J. Lloyd.

Meyersdale Republican, December 20, 1945