Larrick - Mary - Fletcher
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, October 17, 1961
DARLINGTON – A 53-year-old Darlington woman was found dead about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday with a plastic bag over her head. Dr. Samuel C. Millis, Montgomery County coroner, said that the death was an apparent suicide. Mrs. Mary F. Larrick, 53, was found by her husband, Penson Larrick, cashier of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Darlington, when he came home for lunch. Sheriff’s officers said that Larrick found his wife in bed with a plastic bag over her head. Her hands still gripped the bag holding it tight around her throat, they said. Mrs. Larrick was born June 15, 1908 in Montgomery County near Browns Valley, the daughter of Carl G. and Lola Lee Jarvis Fletcher. She was married Aug. 27, 1932 to Penson H. Larrick. They were married at Zionsville. Mrs. Larrick was graduated from Darlington High School and attended Indiana State College. Mr. and Mrs. Larrick began housekeeping in Ladoga before moving to Greencastle in 1941. They moved to this community in 1949. She was a member of the Darlington Methodist Church and OES. She worked part-time as a receptionist at the Redwood Inn near Crawfordsville. Survivors include her husband; her mother, Mrs. Lola Fletcher of Lebanon; a son, Robert C. Larrick of Kokomo; a daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Metzger of Darlington; a brother, Kenneth J. Fletcher of Lebanon; three grandsons, Michael, Bradley and Gregory Larrick, all of Kokomo; a granddaughter, Elizabeth Metzger of Darlington; and an aunt, uncle, niece and nephew. She was preceded in death by her father, who died March 2, 1958. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Bright Funeral Home here with Rev. A. L. Vermillion and Rev. James R. Dickey officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday. – jlr