Mrs. Floyd Crocker, 40, the former Mrs. Oscar West, committed suicide by taking strychnine Saturday afternoon at her home in Dyersburg, Tenn. She died at 6:15 o'clock, an hour and fifteen minutes after swallowing the poison, at the Dyersburg hospital.
Mrs. Crocker, nee Ethel Gibson, had been in ill health for some time. She and her husband had lived in Dyersburg since the first of the year and had managed a café there, moving there shortly after their marriage. She received her education at the Mound school and had lived in or near this city until her removal to Dyersburg.
The body was returned here for burial, funeral service being conducted by the Rev. Roy Bradley from the Pilgrim Holiness Church Sunday afternoon. Interment was in Maple cemetery.
Survivors are her husband; her mother, Mrs. T.C. Gibson, of this city; a sister, Mrs. W.W. Williams of Deering; a brother, R.M. Tidwell of Bragg City; a half-brother, B.F. Burnett of this city; and four or five step-children.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, May 23, 1939
Mrs. Crocker, nee Ethel Gibson, had been in ill health for some time. She and her husband had lived in Dyersburg since the first of the year and had managed a café there, moving there shortly after their marriage. She received her education at the Mound school and had lived in or near this city until her removal to Dyersburg.
The body was returned here for burial, funeral service being conducted by the Rev. Roy Bradley from the Pilgrim Holiness Church Sunday afternoon. Interment was in Maple cemetery.
Survivors are her husband; her mother, Mrs. T.C. Gibson, of this city; a sister, Mrs. W.W. Williams of Deering; a brother, R.M. Tidwell of Bragg City; a half-brother, B.F. Burnett of this city; and four or five step-children.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, May 23, 1939
Mrs. Floyd Crocker, 40, the former Mrs. Oscar West, committed suicide by taking strychnine Saturday afternoon at her home in Dyersburg, Tenn. She died at 6:15 o'clock, an hour and fifteen minutes after swallowing the poison, at the Dyersburg hospital.
Mrs. Crocker, nee Ethel Gibson, had been in ill health for some time. She and her husband had lived in Dyersburg since the first of the year and had managed a café there, moving there shortly after their marriage. She received her education at the Mound school and had lived in or near this city until her removal to Dyersburg.
The body was returned here for burial, funeral service being conducted by the Rev. Roy Bradley from the Pilgrim Holiness Church Sunday afternoon. Interment was in Maple cemetery.
Survivors are her husband; her mother, Mrs. T.C. Gibson, of this city; a sister, Mrs. W.W. Williams of Deering; a brother, R.M. Tidwell of Bragg City; a half-brother, B.F. Burnett of this city; and four or five step-children.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, May 23, 1939
Mrs. Crocker, nee Ethel Gibson, had been in ill health for some time. She and her husband had lived in Dyersburg since the first of the year and had managed a café there, moving there shortly after their marriage. She received her education at the Mound school and had lived in or near this city until her removal to Dyersburg.
The body was returned here for burial, funeral service being conducted by the Rev. Roy Bradley from the Pilgrim Holiness Church Sunday afternoon. Interment was in Maple cemetery.
Survivors are her husband; her mother, Mrs. T.C. Gibson, of this city; a sister, Mrs. W.W. Williams of Deering; a brother, R.M. Tidwell of Bragg City; a half-brother, B.F. Burnett of this city; and four or five step-children.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, May 23, 1939
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