This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MYERS, HULSE, SWAN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi2.2ACIB/6210.1 Message Board Post: Hannibal Courier-Post Newspaper - Oct 8, 1935 (pg 3) DEATHS DUE TO ASPHYXIATION ------- Think Bird's Nest Stopped Flue -- Killed Mother And Two Sons----- - Possibility that a bird's next stopped the flue of a small gas heater in their Chicago apartment and brought death by asphyxiation to Mrs. Marie MYERS, formerly of Ralls county, and her two sons, Dennis 9, and Billy Joe 4, will be investigated by the Cook county coroner, an Associated Press dispatch said late yesterday. - The bodies of the three victims arrived here this morning and were taken to Center, Mo., by W. H. Couch, an undertaker of that city. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at the Pleasant Grove cemetery. - The remains will lie in the state at Couch funeral home in Center until Wednesday afternoon. - Mrs. MYERS and her two sons were found Saturday in a gas filled bedroom at their home in Chicago. Efforts by a fire department inhalator squad failed to revive them. A daughter, Mildred, 12, had been taken to the Illinois Research hospital Friday for treatment for tonsillitis. - William E. Goldie MYERS, the husband and father, fainted when informed of the tragedy. Employed at the Owen HULSE filling station, he had left for work early Saturday morning, he told the coroner. It was believed a bird's nest had stopped the flue and backed the fumes into the room. - The family left Hannibal for Chicago in June. MYERS finding employment with the Seneca Oil Company of which Owen HULSE, formerly of Perry, is a station manager. - Mrs. MYERS was 31 years old. She was a daughter of Mrs. Nannie SWAN, of Center. Her father, Robert SWAN, died about eight years ago.