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Note: The Call Leader 26 Nov 1935 Elwood,Madison Co.,Indiana
WAYMIRE DIES AT REFORMATORY
Former Elwood Toung Man Succumbs After Brief Illness of Heart Trouble
Farrel Eugene Waymire 21, former local youth who was serving a thirty four year sentence in the Indiana Reformatory near Pendleton, died at the institutions hospital yesterday of acute heart trouble after one weeks illness. The youth was sentenved to the reformatory in July 1932 for a term of twenty-five years when he pleaded guilty in the circuit court at Muncie to a charge of brobbing a Muncie filling station. Waymire and Arthur Pothler of Melville,N.D. participated in the holdup. Waymire was later arrested in Summitville and Pothler was captured at a local residence here. In Poyhler's capture Patroleman Willard VanHorn was killed and the bandit was fatally wounded,dying the next day at the hospital. The shooting occurred on the night of July 5,1932. Waymire was on parole from the reformatory where he had served one year of a one-to-ten year sentence imposed for vehicle taking. The court in addition to the twenty five year sentence imposed for the robery, directed that he serve also the remaining nine years of the first sentence. He was the son of Blaine and Edna Waymire and was born in Muncie July 4,1914. Surviving are three sisters Mrs. J.P. Antrim and Mrs. Alice Nelson, north of Muncie and Mrs. Ruth Waymire of Elwood, one brother Cecil Waymire of Matthews, mother Mrs.Edna Rutledge of Muncie, grandparents Garland Jefferson of Muncie and Mrs. Elizabeth Waymire of Elwood. The body was removed to the Clark Chapel here last evening and prepared for burial and this morning it was taken to the home of a sister Mrs.Nelson in Muncie. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Muncie Nazarene Church with Rev E.R. Mattison in charge. Burial will be at Matthews.
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