Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Wednesday, December 5, 1945
Coroner D. K. STINSON on Tuesday afternoon rendered a verdict of suicide in the death of John "Jack" BLAIS, 55, whose lifeless body was found about 2:00 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Armine GAGNON, northeast of Akron. Ill health was ascribed as the cause for Blais' despondency and act. He had cut his own throat with a razor. Blais had been at the home of his sister for the past two weeks. For several years he had resided in this city, where he worked as a male nurse. He had attended a number of cases in this community, where he was well known. Surviving are a daughter, Miss Lorraine BLAIS of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. [Armine] GAGNON, Mrs. Ella TEBO of Beaversville, Ill., and Mrs. Della HERBERT of St. Anne, Ill., and two brothers, Louis BLAIS of Martinton, Ill., and Alfonse BLAIS of Beaverville, Ill. Final rites will be held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Moyer funeral home, Akron, with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be made in Log Bethel cemetery.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1945.htm
Coroner D. K. STINSON on Tuesday afternoon rendered a verdict of suicide in the death of John "Jack" BLAIS, 55, whose lifeless body was found about 2:00 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Armine GAGNON, northeast of Akron. Ill health was ascribed as the cause for Blais' despondency and act. He had cut his own throat with a razor. Blais had been at the home of his sister for the past two weeks. For several years he had resided in this city, where he worked as a male nurse. He had attended a number of cases in this community, where he was well known. Surviving are a daughter, Miss Lorraine BLAIS of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. [Armine] GAGNON, Mrs. Ella TEBO of Beaversville, Ill., and Mrs. Della HERBERT of St. Anne, Ill., and two brothers, Louis BLAIS of Martinton, Ill., and Alfonse BLAIS of Beaverville, Ill. Final rites will be held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Moyer funeral home, Akron, with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be made in Log Bethel cemetery.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1945.htm
Published in the Rochester(IN) News-Sentinel, Wednesday, December 5, 1945
Coroner D. K. STINSON on Tuesday afternoon rendered a verdict of suicide in the death of John "Jack" BLAIS, 55, whose lifeless body was found about 2:00 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Armine GAGNON, northeast of Akron. Ill health was ascribed as the cause for Blais' despondency and act. He had cut his own throat with a razor. Blais had been at the home of his sister for the past two weeks. For several years he had resided in this city, where he worked as a male nurse. He had attended a number of cases in this community, where he was well known. Surviving are a daughter, Miss Lorraine BLAIS of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. [Armine] GAGNON, Mrs. Ella TEBO of Beaversville, Ill., and Mrs. Della HERBERT of St. Anne, Ill., and two brothers, Louis BLAIS of Martinton, Ill., and Alfonse BLAIS of Beaverville, Ill. Final rites will be held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Moyer funeral home, Akron, with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be made in Log Bethel cemetery.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1945.htm
Coroner D. K. STINSON on Tuesday afternoon rendered a verdict of suicide in the death of John "Jack" BLAIS, 55, whose lifeless body was found about 2:00 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Armine GAGNON, northeast of Akron. Ill health was ascribed as the cause for Blais' despondency and act. He had cut his own throat with a razor. Blais had been at the home of his sister for the past two weeks. For several years he had resided in this city, where he worked as a male nurse. He had attended a number of cases in this community, where he was well known. Surviving are a daughter, Miss Lorraine BLAIS of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. [Armine] GAGNON, Mrs. Ella TEBO of Beaversville, Ill., and Mrs. Della HERBERT of St. Anne, Ill., and two brothers, Louis BLAIS of Martinton, Ill., and Alfonse BLAIS of Beaverville, Ill. Final rites will be held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon from the Moyer funeral home, Akron, with the Rev. D. L. SLAYBAUGH officiating. Burial will be made in Log Bethel cemetery.
SOURCE:
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Genealogy/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1945.htm
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