Stine, Floyd 1866-1940

STINE, DEBRUYN, KODER, HART, PATCHIN

Posted By: Sherry Faidley Healy
Date: 10/26/2012 at 19:24:33

Newton (IA) Daily News, Sept 9, 1940 page 1 col.5

Fred Stine Dies Sunday
Self-Inflicted Wound Fatal to Tool’s Chapel Farmer
(Special to the Daily News)
TOOL’S CHAPEL -- Fred Stine, 51 year old Tool’s Chapel farmer, died in Skiff Memorial hospital late Sunday afternoon a few minutes after he had been rushed to Newton suffering from a self-inflicted head wound.

Stine had been melancholy for the last few days, relatives said, and went to a bedroom in his home between 4 an 5 o’clock and inflicted the wound with a .22 caliber rifle. Several relatives were guests in the home at the time.

A physician and County Coroner Ralph Toland were called to the home and Mr. Stine was rushed to the Newton hospital in an attempt to save his life. There was no inquest.
He leaves his invalid wife, a son Floyd, and two daughters, Mrs. Wilma DeBruyn of Monroe and Shirley at home. Also surviving are three brothers , Jim, Sam and Elzie Stine, all of Jasper county, and three sisters Mrs. John Koder of Monroe, Mrs. Manda Hart of Newton, and Ellen Patchin of Oklahoma City, Okla.

Funeral services will be held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with burial in the Tool’s Chapel cemetery. The home is located three miles east of Monroe and one mile south.