Robert Bruce Haxton (1958)

HAXTON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 4/27/2007 at 18:22:58

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, May 7, 1958

ROBERT HAXTON TAKES OWN LIFE

Found Dead in Field Tuesday After Being Missing Since Monday

Robert B. Haxton, 38, a well-known farmer living northwest of Pitzer, was found dead in a field on his farm Tuesday morning, after being missing since Monday morning.

Haxton was last seen alive Monday morning, by his 11-year-old son Robert II. The boy told officers his father was in the machine shed when he left for school that morning. When he returned home after school, the father could not be found. Scott Day of near Pitzer, a friend of the family, was summoned. A search that evening proved fruitless, but Day returned Tuesday morning and found Haxton's body in a field. He apparently had shot himself. The gun was nearby.

Sheriff Rex Rouse and Coroner Paul Eggleston were summoned. They reported the death an apparent suicide, and said no inquest would be necessary.

Haxton was said to have been depressed recently. His first wife, mother of the boy, committed suicide there several years ago. He later married a second time, but that marriage had broken up, and the father and son had been living on the farm alone since then.
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Dexter Library Obituary Collection
Dexter, Iowa
May 1958

Funeral Services Thursday for Robert Haxton

Rev. Holloway in Charge

Last rites were held Thursday afternoon at two o’clock at the Evans Funeral Home for Robert Bruce Haxton 38, who was found dead in a field near his home on Tuesday, May 5. Reverend Robert Holloway of the First Presbyterian church officiated at the private memorial service. A military escort was provided by the American Legion Post No. 419 of which Robert was a member.

Music for the service was provided by Mrs. John Shepherd at the piano. The flowers were cared for by Mrs. Scott Day and Miss Helen Hadley.

Those who served as casket bearers were Claude Peer, Wallis Jackson, John Moreland, and Darwin Gubser of Earlham also Scott Day and John Hadley of Dexter.

Taps were sounded by Russell Horn, Jr.

The interment was in the Earlham Cemetery at Earlham.

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