CAVINESS, Lillian Dorthy 1900 - 1934

CAVINESS, KASKA, HOOK, CATHEY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:22:49

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Thursday, July 26, 1934
Front Page, Columns 1 and 2

MRS. CAVINESS TOOK OWN LIFE AT HOME HERE
Leaves Husband and Three Children; was At 10:00 p.m.

Mrs. Lloyd CAVINESS, 34-year-old housewife of 903½ West Grimes street, took her own life by the use of poison at her home about 10:00 o'clock last night. In the opinion of Coroner R. A. McGuire, the death was a plain case of suicide and requires no inquest.

Despondency is believed to have been the cause of the act, the coroner said today.

Mrs. CAVINESS is believed to have taken one-sixteenth of an ounce of strychnine, purchased in Fairfield about 5:35 o'clock last evening, at which time she was downtown. The time the poison was taken has not been definitely learned, although it is presumed that this was done during the early evening, after the family had eaten supper.

Mrs. CAVINESS, a member of the family told Coroner Mcguire, did not eat with the rest of the family but ate a sandwich by herself.

At the time the poison was taken, it is understood, Mr. CAVINESS was away from home, attending a kittenball game. He arrived home a short time before his wife passed away.

As Mrs .CAVINESS (sic) was drawing her last breaths, the Rev. Father E. F. Gaule, of the St. Marys' Catholic church of Fairfield, arrived and administered the last sacrament.

Mr. CAVINESS is employed part-time at the Louden Machinery company. The husband survives together with three children, Don 16; Annabelle, 11 and Dale, 8. Annabelle told Coroner McGuire that she saw her mother taking the poison and attempted to get the glass away from her. Instead of using the glass she related, Mrs. CAVINESS put the poison bottle to her lip and drained it.

The poison acted quickly, and Mrs. CAVINESS passed away in convulsions a short time after medical aid arrived.

The act came as a complete surprise to the West Grimes street neighborhood, many people of the vicinity not being able to believe the word until they had visited the CAVINESS home after the tragedy.

Mrs. CAVINESS left a note to her half sister, Miss Margaret KASKA of East Pleasant Plain. The contents of the note were not revealed.

In addition to the members of her immediate family, Mrs. CAVINESS is survived by her father, George HOOK of Pleasant Plain, Miss Margaret KASKA, and by four brothers, Frank, Louis, John and Vincent KASKA, all of Fairfield.

Mrs. CAVINESS had made her home in Fairfield for the past eight years.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Friday, July 27, 1934
Front Page, Column 3

CAVINESS RITES AT ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH TOMORROW

Funeral services for Mrs. Lloyd CAVINESS will be held at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, from the St. Joseph's Catholic church in East Pleasant Plain, in charge of the Rev. Fater E. Seidel. Burial will be in the Pleasant Plain cemetery (sic - St. Joseph's Cemetery at Pleasant Plain).

The funeral party will leave the Hoskins Funeral Home at 8:45 o'clock in the morning.

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Note: Husband Lloyd subsequently married Mary N. CATHEY, died in 1950, and is buried with her in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA.