Note: Death date and maiden name from husband’s obituary

Obituary printed in a Jan. 6, 1949 newspaper

Farm Woman Found Dead by Husband

A 53-year-old farm wife was found dead Thursday morning of a gunshot wound. Acting County Coroner George Sullivan said the wound was self-inflicted.

The woman was identified as Mrs. Tracie Sunds, 53, One Hundred-second and Maple Streets. Her husband, James Sunds, told Mr. Sullivan he had left for South Omaha about 7 a.m. When he returned at 10 a.m. he found his wife in a shed, he said, dead of a small caliber gunshot wound in the right temple. A .22 caliber pistol was lying at her feet.

Mr. Sullivan said a note, apparently left by Mrs. Sunds, spoke of “financial trouble”.

The body was taken to a Bennington, Neb. mortuary.

~~~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library, Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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