Charles Hess (1928)

HESS, LINDSLEY, WATKINS

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 7/2/2007 at 19:45:00

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
April 26, 1928

Death of Charles Hess

Charles Hess, a former resident of Madison county, died last Friday April 20th at the Manhattan oil station at East 18th street and Grand avenue, in Des Moines, where he had been employed. His body was found hanging at the end of a rope in the washroom of the station, and Coroner H. J. Wright said that evidence pointed to suicide. His relatives stated that he had been in poor health recently and that undoubtedly caused him to commit the act.

Mr. Hess spent most of his life in Madison county only leaving here about eight years ago. He resided in Minnesota for a time and had recently been living at 1920 Capitol avenue in Des Moines. He was 50 years of age. He is survived by his wife, three children, Dwight, Geraldine and Genevieve; his mother, Mrs. E. A. Hess; two sisters, Mrs. E. M. Lindsley and Mrs. T. O. Walkins of Des Moines and two brothers, O. E. Hess of Lamberton, Minnesota and W. B. Hess of Winterset.

Funeral services were conducted at White's funeral home Monday April 23rd at two o'clock by the pastor of the Capitol Hill church and burial was made in the Glendale cemetery in Des Moines. A number of relatives and friends drove down from here to attend the services.