does anyone know who the below Crethen married??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy & Jerry Thompson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [MOMILLER] Struemph/Humphrey - death notice > > Glad to help > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mary E. Stigler > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOMILLER] Struemph/Humphrey - death notice > > Thanks for the obit. > Mary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nancy & Jerry Thompson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:07 PM > Subject: [MOMILLER] Struemph/Humphrey - death notice > > >> Unknown Publication, April 1935 >> >> Adolph Struemph >> >> Returning from work in a St. Louis factory, Mrs. Grace >> Struemph >> found her husband, Adolph, shot and fatally wounded on the bedroom floor >> of >> their home 20-_6a Cleveland Boulevard at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. >> >> She summoned neighbors and rushed him to ST. Elizabeth's >> Hospital in an ambulance where he died a few minutes later in the >> emergency >> room without regaining consciousness. The bullet had entered his head >> just >> above the right ear, lodging in the brain. >> >> Mrs. Struemph said she discovered her husband a moment after >> arriving home. It was not known how long he had lain wounded and alone >> on >> the floor, but Mrs. Edward Ennis, who occupies the downstairs apartment, >> said she heard a report and the sound of a falling object sometime around >> 4:30 pm., but paid no attention to it. >> >> Less than a foot from Struemph's right hand was a new .22 >> calibre snub nosed revolver. The nine chambers were loaded with .22 long >> cartridges and one had been discharged. Nearly a full box of bullets was >> found in a bureau drawer in the bedroom. >> >> Mrs. Struemph said her husband had never owned a revolver and >> she was not aware that he had one until she saw it on the floor beside >> his >> body. She did not know when or where he had acquired it. >> >> Both the police and the widow believe Struemph committed >> suicide. While he had never threatened to take his own life, she said he >> had been under a St. Louis physician's care for some time due to a >> stomach >> disorder. He was also greatly worried about his elderly father, John >> Struemph, who is in a critical condition at St. Mary's Hospital in >> Jefferson >> City, Mo., following an operation. Mrs. Struemph said. They had gone >> there >> last weekend to visit him. >> >> Struemph, who was 32 years old, had steady employment at the >> Granite City Steel Co. and worked until 3 p.m. on the day of his death. >> He >> had evidently gone home, loaded the revolver from the new box of >> cartridges, >> and killed himself. >> >> Two sisters of Mrs. Struemph, Misses Ethel and Crethen >> Humphrey, >> who live at the Cleveland Boulevard address, were away and did not arrive >> home until after the body was found. >> >> The remains were taken Saturday from Mercer's Funeral Home to >> St. Elizabeth, Mo., where interment was made. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.18/1849 - Release Date: 12/15/2008 9:01 AM