Charlotte Caroline Yerkes
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 30 January 1945, page 1
ENDS LIFE-Despondency over the recent accidental death of her husband is believed to have caused Mrs. Charles Yerkes, 38, to end her own life at her home, 633 Washington avenue, Newport, Tuesday morning. Neighbors told Patrolmen Jack Thiem and Felix Cate that she had been despondent since her husband the late Gaines Yerkes, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad employee, was killed accidentally six months ago.
Mrs. Yerkes was in the bedroom of her apartment, suffering from a gunshot wound inflected in her left temple by an automatic pistol. The Newport Life Squad removed her to Speers Hospital where she died a short time later. Alice Lou, 15 year old daughter of Mrs. Yerkes found her mother. She and a son, Jerry Lee, six months old were in other parts of the home when the shot was fired. Another son, William, 18, was at work at Silver Grove. Coroner Leo Sauter is investigating the case.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 31 January 1945, page 4
DEATH-Services will be held at 2 m Friday at the John J Radel Sons funeral home, Newport, for Charlotte Yerkes, of 633 Washington avenue, Newport, who died Tuesday at her home. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Rev Kenneth Young will officiate. A member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood Railway Trainmen and the Silver Grove Parent Teacher Association, Mrs. Yerkes was past councilor of the Silver Grove Daughters of America, Silver Grove.
She leaves two sons, William and Jerry Lee Yerkes, both at home; a daughter, Miss Alice Lou Yerkes, at home her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Chester Drowns; three sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Macht, Ft Mitchell; Mrs. Ruth Paul, Newport and Mrs. Carroll Reitz, Southgate and two brothers, Edward and Charles Drowns, Newport.