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San Rafael Independent
Wednesday, April 30, 1930
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Deadly Fumes Take Life of Mrs. Hextrum in Manor Home
Although she was found dead in a gas-filled room, the theory of suicide in the death of Mrs. Charlotta Hextrum, grandmother of Otis “Andy” Miller of football fame, is scouted.
Mrs. Hextrum, who is 82 years of age, lived next door to her daughter, Mrs. Alma Deswett on the county road near Manor. This morning when Mrs. Deswett did not see her mother moving about her house she became alarmed and ran over to find her mother stretched lifeless across her bed. She was clad only in a night gown. Mrs. Deswett gained entrance to the house through a bathroom window.
The burners of the gas range were turned off at the time but it is believed that Mrs. Deswett had turned them on accidentally as she passed them, as they turned very easily being the round type of handle, and that when she became aware of the escaping gas, she turned it off but was too much overcome by the gas to open the windows.
The gas may have been turned on as she was preparing for bed as Autopsy Physician Dr. J. H. Kuser said Mrs. Hextrum had been dead for a number of hours when she was found.
She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Deswett, two sons, Arthur and Herman Hextrum of San Francisco, and three grandsons, Otis, Ray and Richard Miller.
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San Rafael Independent
Thursday, May 1, 1930
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Hextrum Funeral Rites Tomorrow
The funeral of Mrs. Charlotta Hextrum, 82, who was found yesterday dead at her home near Manor, will be held tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in San Francisco.
Mrs. Hextrum died from gas fumes. It is believed that her death was accidental, that in some manner the burners of her gas stove had been turned on without her knowledge and t hat she died before she could open the windows to allow the fumes to escape.
She was the mother of Herman C. and Arthur W. Hextrum, Mrs. Edith M. Badley and Mrs. Alma Deswett. She was a native of Sweden.
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