Theodore Herring ends life
A self-inflicted bullet wound caused the death at 8 o’clock, Tuesday morning of
Theodore Herring, 47, who was found unconscious in the office of his filling station in
Warsaw. When found, he was sitting in a chair near his desk and at his side was the
revolver which he had used. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died an hour later,
without gaining consciousness.
It is believed that despondency over financial worries caused him to commit suicide.
Mr. and Mrs. Herring and three children moved from Wakarusa, where he was in the
restaurant business to LaGrange and later to Warsaw.
He was a member of the First Brethren church and the Moose Lodge. Mrs. Herring is a
sister of Lawrence Hoover of this place Mrs. Hoover is with the family at Warsaw.
Surviving are his widow, three children, Dorothy 18; Ruth, 16; and Winfred, 10; his
mother, Mrs. Barney Herring of Bravo, Mich., three sisters, Mrs. Ada Brenner of Bravo,
Mich., Mrs. Hannah Johnson and Mrs. Della Coddock of Kalamazoo, Mich., and a
brother, Charles Herring of Deland, Florida.
Funeral services will be held from the First Brethren Church, Warsaw, Thursday
afternoon at 1 o’clock. Burial in Warsaw.
March 29, 1934