Lamson - Earl
Source: Waveland Independent, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, Jan 5, 1932
A telegram received here on Thursday last evening told of the death of Earl Lamson. Later information was to the effect that the body was not found until two days after death. As the result of an accident while he was in the naval service he had trouble with one of his legs and had been in the hospital for treatment four times. It was giving him trouble again and it is supposed that this led to his ending his life. He rented a room in another part of the city from where he had been staying, turned on the gas and lay down on the bed. He had regular employment as a taxi driver, and his letters to his folks had been cheerful. He was to have been married in the spring. The funeral services at the Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon were in charge of Rev. Victor Keiser. The HS boys' quartet, with Mr. Walker at the piano, sang three appropriate selections. The pall bearers, members of the American Legion were Parke & Lowell Spencer; Owen Dooley; Orvill Hall; Howard Worl and Harry Miles. Burial in Union Cmetery.
Again God in his Infinite mercy has shown us that we know not what a day will bring forth. A gain we stand upon the verge of the strange silent country into whose marvels and mysteries we enter by the door of the grave. Often have these reflections been stirred in days that have past & ever again will they come in days that are yet to be. Our community was shocked and deeply grieved on Thurs eve. when Mr. & Mrs. Harry Lamson received a message from Washington DC informing them that their son Earl had been found dead in his room overcome by the deadly fumes of gas.
Earl was born at Parkeville, near Waveland Oct 13, 1905 died in Washington DC Jan 28, 1932 aged 26 years 3 months and 15 days. He spent his boyhood in and around here, was a student of the Waveland School, finishing the 8th grade and was also a member of the Baptist Sunday School. Earl was a good boy who always had a kind word and pleasant smile for all and his friends are only limited by his acquaintances. On April 10, 1922 he enlisted in the US Navy going to the Radio School at Hampton Rhodes Virginia where he graduated and on May 8, 1927 he reenlisted serving as Radio operator at Arlington. Early in 1928, he had the misfortune of being in an accident in which his leg was broken, that caused him to be confined in the Navy hospial about a year and a half in the fall of 1929 he rec'd his discharge form the Navy, after which he was employed as a taxi driver in Wash. In addition to the parents he is survived by three brother, Glenn and George of Waveland and Walter who is in the Navy, stationed at San Diego Calif; and one sister, Vera of Indianapolis, one grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Seits of Waveland, uncles, aunts, cousins and a host of friends who mourn with those bereft. Those from out of town who attended: Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Davidson and Mrs. Minnie Lamson of Linden; Mr. & Mrs. John Lamson; Mr. & Mrs. George Dunkin and Mr. & Mrs. Merrill Thomas of Crawfordsville; Mm Ray Simpson and daughter, Doris; Mrs. Kate Simpson and Mrs. Flavia Bayless of Browns Valley; Miss Margaret Shannon of Parkersburg; Mr. & Mrs. Willie Seit and Paul Olsen of Indianapolis; Albert Siets and Mrs Sylvia Gilliland of Terre Haute; Mr. & Mrs. Walter Razier and Miss Josephine Baldwin of Judson; Mr. & Mrs. Bert Hill and Delbert Pollitt of Colfax. - transcribed by kbz
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