DOUD, Mrs. Ralph: Died 1948

DOUD, NELSON, PAYTON

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 11/23/2013 at 11:41:22

CANTRIL WOMAN TOOK OWN LIFE

CANTRIL.-Mrs. Ralph Doud, 47, who lived 4 1/2 miles southeast of Cantril took her own life Sunday by drinking formaldehyde. She died about 5 p.m.

She had been in ill health for several years. Coroner Harold Carcott was called.

Survivors include her husband and two sisters, Mrs. Floyd Nelson of Cantril and Mrs. Frank Payton of Tucson, Ariz.

Funeral services in charge of the Rev. Lloyd Tennant, a former Cantril pastor, will be held at the Methodist church at 1:30 p.m. Thursday with burial in the Cantril cemetery.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 346, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA