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Mabel A. Sobers

(04/13/1890 - 11/2/1938)

branch.gif (1966 bytes)Aaron Sobers
Mabel A. Sobers
Marriage(s)Martha "Mattie" Harwick
 1 William Kirk Shoemaker on:
  - No Issue
 
  Siblings:
  - Walter Aaron Sobers
 
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Burial:Arlington Cemetery Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
 
Notes:
Republican and Herald
Pottsville, Pennsylvania
02 Nov 1938, Wed ? Page 4

COMMITS SUICIDE -

Philadelphia, Nov. 2. (U.B Mrs. Mabel Shoemaker,. 49, wife of an insurance broker, . committed suicide with illuminating gas today after carefully putting her pet dog outside to prevent it being affected by the fumes, police reported. The woman's body was found in the kitchen of her home by a neighbor who was aroused by the whining of the dog. Skipper. Frank Engelkraut 52, told police that his home was filled by the fumes from the Shoemaker house next door, and that he and his family might have been overcome if the dog had not awakened them. Police said Mrs. .Shoemaker left a farewell note to her husband in which she said she was "tired of living and I don't want to be a burden to you."
 
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