Obit: Ogden, Donald Robert #3 (1922 - 1964)

Contact: Pat Braun
Email: pat@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Ogden, Stout

----Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark Co., Wis.) 10/1/1964

----Ogden, Donald Robert (1922 - 1964)

RULE GREENWOOD MAN’S DEATH A SUICIDE

The death of a 42 year old Greenwood man has been ruled a suicide by Clark County authorities.

Donald Robert Ogden’s body was found shortly after noon Sunday in a car parked in the yard of his home.

County Coroner, Robert Lulloff said death was due to carbon monoxide poison. A flexible tube connected to the exhaust pipe had been pulled up through a hole under the back seat of the car. The car’s gasoline supply had been exhausted when Mrs. Ogden discovered her husband’s body in the vehicle.

Ogden was born Jan 24, 1922, in Seattle, Wash. His marriage to Audrey Stout took place Feb. 27, 1949, family came to Clark county and in Williamfield, Ill. In 1957, for the past two years has resided on a farm with her father, Carol Stout, one mile west of Greenwood. He had been employed in Spencer.

He is survived by his wife; nine children, all at home; his parents and a sister.