This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7884 Message Board Post: List Edwards Resident Death As Suicide Air Police Sgt. Nelson of Edwards AFB received a report from Capt. Watson, Medical Officer of Edwards Hospital, that a woman residing at No. 14 Fifth Street, Wherry Housing, had apparently shot herself last Thursday June 17 at 10:5.0 p.m. Upon arriving at the residence occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jack J C. Bushaw, the husband told Air Police Officers the following story. He said he and his wife had been entertaining friends earlier in the evening. When the friends left, he and his wife, Twila had watched television for a while then went to bed. Neither could sleep, however, and Mrs. Bushaw had got up and turned on the record player. He followed her into the front room and was dozing on the divan when he heard a shot. He rushed into the bedroom and found his wife had shot herself with a .22 pistol that had hung on the bedroom wall for about a year. . Mr., Neilson and Mr. Lockstorm and deputies Nelson and Barrett arrived 1:15 a.m. and after making an examination waited for Deputy Coroner Ross Jones until 4:05 a.m. The body was then removed by the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave where an inquest was held Monday, June21, with a verdict of suicide. She is survived by her husband, Jack, and two, children, Jackie Clinton, aged 6 and Kitty Regina, aged 4. The,body was taken to Inglewood for services and interment by O;Donnel1 ambulance. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 24 Jun 1954