Thursday Sept.20, 1934 THE AKRON
NEWS REPORTER
Despondent because of real or imaginary financial wories, Roy
Reigle,43, Washington County
Farmer, who resided two miles south and 14 west of Akron, Monday afternoon beat his wife, Dora, 33, and daughter, Irene,3, to death with a neckyoke, strangled a step-son, Nelson
Smith, 13, and committed suicide by hanging himself from a windmill tower.
Surviving
Reigle are eight brothers and two sisters, Mrs. Otterbin
Rhamy and Mrs. Claude
Pierce and two brothers, Grover and Jesse, residing at
Red Cloud,
Nebraska.
Surviving Mrs. Reigle are her father, Richard
Hedman and a brother, Harold
Hedman living in
New Mexico, two sisters, Mrs Charles
Menke living in Morgan County, southeast of
Brush, and Mrs. Theresa
Johnson of Oregon, and another brother, Will
Hedman of
Fort Collins.
Dorthea Ida
Hedman was born at
Battle Creek,
Nebraska, on February 8, 1901, and died near Akron,
Colorado, September 17,1934.
She came to
Colorado with her parents in 1910 and in 1920 she was married to Earl
Smith of
Clay Center,
Nebraska,from whom she was divorced in 1925 and to whom she bore a son, Nelson Richard
Smith, whose death occurred on the same date as her own.
She was married to Samuel Roy
Reigle at
Fort Morgan on Decemter 22, 1925 and to this union was born on November 18, 1930, the daughter, Irene Louise, whose death also occurred on the same day as her own.
Samuel Roy
Reigle was born in
Red Cloud,
Nebraska, in 1891. He was one of a family of ten children of whom eight are still living.
He enlisted for the World War and at the close of it was honorably discharged.
He homesteaded in
Colorado in 1915 and was married on December 22, 1925 to Dorthea
Hedman Smith.
Funeral services for the family were held at the
Yeamans Mortuary Wednesday, with Rev. F. C. Harding in charge and burial was in the Akron Cemetery.