!"Funeral services for the late Roy Sears were held this a f ternoon from the Johnson Chapel at 2 o'clock, Rev. Jame s Miller, pastor of t he First Christian Church officiating . Interment occured in the city cemetery . - Roy Sears, a ged 33, shot himself to death on Monday at his home i n E l Dorado, Kansas, worry over business conditions is bel ieved to have caused M r. Sears to take his life. - Mr. Se ars went to his store early Monday morning . He returned h ome shortly before 11 o'clock and told Mrs. Sears that he w as n ot feeling well. He asked her to go to the store afte r some money and then purc hase some medicine for him. Mr . Sears did this, despite the fact that he ha d over $200.0 0 in change in his pocket at the time. - When Mrs. Sear s retur ned from the store, she found the lifeless body o f her husband lying on the flo or. The shotgun was restin g between his legs. The body was on its back. Lif e had b een extinct only a few minutes. Mrs. Sears ran to a neighb oring apartm ent and told the occupants what had happened . The officers were then notifi ed. - Chester Turber acti ng coroner, investigated the shooting. - The d eceased wa s born in Osage county in 1892, and was the son of the lat e Z. T. an d Mrs. Sears. He was educated in the schools o f Chautauqua, Kansas and came her e with his parents whe n a young man. He has been engaged in business for th e la st 13 years. He was in the grocery business and for a numb er of months in t he partnership of Hubbard and Sears, late r going into business for himself, a nd later moving to Kan sas and engaging in the same business. - The decease d i s survived by his widow and a daughter Louise, aged 11, hi s mother, Mrs. Z. T . Sears, several brothers and sisters . (The Daily Journal-Capital; Pawhuska , OK; Wednesday , 9 Dec 1925)
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1892 - 1925 (33 years)
