Gerald Wesley Hogue (1943)

BOUGHTON, DANIELS, DELONG, HAYNES, HOGUE, SHUTT, TUTTLE, WHITE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 8/21/2004 at 13:49:25

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 18, 1943
Page 1, Column 1

Gerald Wesley Hogue, a young man of the Peru neighborhood committed suicide at Des Moines on Wednesday of last week by shooting himself with a shotgun.

No reason was known here for the act except that the young man had been extremely anxious to join the navy, and felt it very keenly when he was unable to do so.

Mr. Hogue was 26 years old at the time of his death. He was born October 8, 1916, south of Peru, the son of Clyde and Susanna Hogue. In 1917, the family moved to Peru, where he spent the rest of his life, although he had been working some in Des Moines recently.

He had been a member of the Methodist church of Peru since 1930.

He is survived by his parents; a sister, Mrs Yvonne White of Peru; and two brothers, Forest White of the U.S. Navy and Marlin White of Peru.

Funeral services were held last Friday from the Peru Methodist church, in charge of the pastor, the Rev. Francis B. Harris. Burial was made in the Peru cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, surnames of brothers Forest and Marlin should be "Hogue".
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 18, 1943
Page 6, Column 3

PERU HAPPENINGS

FUNERAL OF GERALD HOGUE WAS HELD HERE LAST FRIDAY

The funeral of Gerald Hogue, son of Mrs. Susie Hogue of Peru and Clyde Hogue of Des Moines was held in the Methodist church here Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. F. H. Harris. Music was furnished by Leo Hamand, Mrs. C. J. Shearer, Mrs. C. N. Shearer, and Kendall Travis.

The pallbearers were C. J. Shearer, C. B. Dowler, Clyde Rhone, Percy Crees, W. B. Fenimore and Maurice Black.

The ladies who had charge of the flowers were Mrs. L. E. Simmons, Mrs. F. H. Harris and Mrs. Maurice Black. Burial was made in the Peru Cemetery.

Relatives who attended from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Will Daniels and son, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Tuttle and two sons, Mr. and Mrs Walter Shutt, and Mrs. Libby Haynes all of St. Charles, Clyde Hogue of Des Moines, Mrs. Chet Boughton and Mrs. Lawrence Delong and daughter Geneve of Ord.

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