Obit: Mosher, Ina (1921 - 1959)

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Surnames: Mosher, Heikkenen, Markow, Heubner

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co., Wis.)  07/09/1959

Mosher, Ina (1921 - 4 JUL 1959)

An Acton, Calif. woman strangled to death last Saturday by her husband, who afterwards admitted to the crime to police, was a native of Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) and a former resident of Medford.

The victim was Mrs. Ina Heikkenen Mosher, born in Owen in 1921 and educated there.  She lived in Medford about nine years, leaving there in 1956.

Before her marriage about five months ago to Gerald Mosher, an oil field worker, who confessed to the murder, she had been married to Howard Markow, Van Nuys, Calif., formerly of Medford, and Wallace Heubner, Medford.  Both marriages ended in divorce.

The murder was uncovered by an Acton, Calif. housewife who saw a man stop his car near her ranch home on a lonely stretch of desert.

According to Associated Press reports published Monday in the Marshfield News Herald, the woman got her binoculars and saw the man bury something.  She walked to the spot later with a neighbor and dug up a woman’s purse and shoes.  They called the police.

The purse belonged to Mrs. Mosher.  Police found Mosher in a San Fernando hotel room.  He admitted that he had strangled his wife Saturday and had dumped her body from a car along a private road near San Fernando.

Funeral services were held in Sand Fernando.  Mrs. Mosher is survived by a daughter and two sons, all living in California.