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Homer S. Arender - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal December 26, 1952

Tallulah Man Fatally Shot
Coroner's Jury Returns Suicide Verdict In Arender Death

Homer S. Arender, well known farmer near here, killed himself Sunday. December 21st with a .22 rifle, 
pulling the trigger with a stick, a coroner's inquest decided this morning.

Native of Riley, Miss., he was 65 years old and had been a resident here for the past 23 years. He left 
no note, but Dr. E. Otis Edgerton, Madison Parish coroner, said he had been in ill health for the past 
two years.

R. R. Holt, chief deputy sheriff of Tallulah, said investigation shows that Arender had threatened 
suicide several times previously. Holt said one of Arender's sons, living in the home on Round-about 
road 15 miles south of here, heard Arender in the kitchen at daybreak. He went in, he told Holt, and 
found his father with a box of .22 shells and took them from him "because he was nervous." The son 
returned to bed, and was awakened by the sound of a body falling in the kitchen, but he said he did 
not hear the report of the rifle. The rifle was found on the table near Arender, and the stick was 
wedged against the trigger.

Funeral services were held Monday, December 22 at 3:00 p. m. at the First Baptist Church here. The Rev. 
Shirley Briggs and the Rev. R. A. Coulter, pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church officiated. Burial 
followed in Silver Cross Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Youngs Funeral Home.

Arender is survived by three sons, James Howard of Sondheimer, Billy Ray and Donald Wayne of Tallulah; 
five daughters Mrs. Louis Clement of Transylvania, Mrs. Chester Williams and Mrs. Leslie Pitts of Tallulah 
and Mrs. Laura Piper and Mrs. Shirley Baker of Monahans, Tex., two brothers, Monroe Arender of Monroe and 
Barney Arender of New Orleans; four sisters, Mrs. Laura Newton and Mrs. Nancy Nugent of Colfax 
and Mrs. Bessie Johnson and Mrs. Lawrence Buckhana of Oklahoma City, Okla., and 10 grandchildren.

Pallbearers were William A. Florence, George Hopkins, Tobe Hopkins and Troy Beard.