Service Set For Suicide
WAYNESVILLE (Special)- Funeral services for Harry Adkins, Jr., 32, of Waynesville, who died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at the Star Motel, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Waynesville Methodist Church with the Rev. Theodore Wolff officiating.
Mr. Adkins shot himself in the right temple with a .32-caliber revolver, state troopers said. His body was discovered about 1:30 a.m. Monday by the motel owner, Mrs. Earl Martin. He had apparently been dead since 8 p.m. Sunday, and authorities reported that he left a note explaining that he would take his life.
Survivors are his parents, Harry and Marie Adkins, Big piney; a son, Harry; a daughter, Shawn; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Winterberg, Granite City, Ill.; and six brothers, Herschel, of Ferguson, Leo, of Plato, Dale, of Kansas City, Ansel of Big Piney, Gary, of Carondelet, and John, of Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.
Burial will be in Waynesville Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Moss-Williams of Waynesville.
Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
18 June 1963
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