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/7683 Message Board Post: Coroner Finds Vernon Rogers Death Suicide When Vernon C. Rogers, asst. superintendent of the Pacific Coast Borax Co. in Boron, failed to show up for work Monday A.M., December 29, Pete Conte, Lowell Clegg and another man went to his home to investigate. They found Mr. Rogers unconscious from a bullet wound in the head. A doctor was called but the victim died at 12:20 p.m. without regaining consciousness. A .38 calibre automatic pistol was beside him and there was no indication of foul play. No one heard the shot fired. Rogers had been despondent and in ill health since the death of his wife in July of 1951 and friends had been worried about him. He was born in Minnesota in 1905 and left no children. He had been employed at P. C. B. the past 15 years, seven of them in Boron. The body was removed to the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave and prepared for burial in Grandview Memorial Park, Glendale, California, on Wednesday, December 31, 1952. A coroner's inquest held in the conference room at P. C. B. revealed the cause of death to be self inflicted. It was conducted. by Coroner Norman E. Houze with Deputy Coroners Ross Jones and Frank Keleher assisting. Sgt. Bud Miller conducted the investigation for the Sheriff's office. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 01 Jan 1953