Johnnie Morehead Obituary, Hot Spring County, AR

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Johnnie Morehead Feb. 16, 1942 Malvern Dailey Record

Johnny Morehead Commits Suicide At Friendship
Johnny Morehead, 33, committed suicide Saturday afternoon at the home 
of his mother, Mrs. Emma Morehead at Friendship. Mr. Morehead used a 
double barrelled shotgun, the bullets striking him in the left breast 
just above the heart. He lived about an hour and was brought to the
Hot Spring County hospital where he died at 6:30.
Relatives and neighbors told Coroner Milton Kidder that Mr. Morehead 
had been despondent for about a week. He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Maggie Willmon Morehead, North Malvern; a daughter, Thelma, North
Malvern; a step-son, Eugene Dunkin, North Malvern; his mother, Mrs. 
Emma Morehead, Friendship, and two brothers, Hugh of Friendship and Earl
of Hot Springs.
Deceased was born at Friendship, and was a member of the Brown Springs
Presbyterian church. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 
four o’clock at the Friendship Methodist church, with Elder C. V. Kemp of
Malvern, officiating. Interment was in the Friendship cemetery, Cooper
Funeral Co. In charge of arrangements. 
(Malvern Dailey Record, Feb. 16, 1942).