James Clifford Lusby

 
Breckenridge American Newspaper – May 1954
 
LUSBY SERVICE WILL BE HELD FRIDAY AT 4
                Funeral services for James Clifford Lusby, who Wednesday afternoon called an undertaker to come get him and then shot and killed himself, will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the First Baptist Church, with Rev. Jerre [sic] McBride pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. R.E. Maxwell pastor of the Rock Church, officiating, burial to follow in Breckenridge Cemetery.
                The 43-year-old Breckenridge machinist was found dead of a gunshot would minutes after he had called for an ambulance to come after him.
                Lusby phoned Satterwhite Funeral Home about 3 p.m. “Hank, come get me in 10 minutes,” he told H.H. Satterwhite. Lusby gave no further explanation, but Satterwhite said he sounded as though he might be sick at his stomach.
FOUND DEAD IN HOME
                When Satterwhite arrived at the Lusby home, 202 East Maple St., he found Lusby lying on the kitchen floor. Nearby was a .32 caliber special Winchester rifle.
                Lusby had been shot underneath the chin, with the bullet coming out of the top of his head.
                Justice of the Peace L.T. Woodall, who was called to the scene, returned a verdict of death by self-inflicted gunshot wound.
                Lusby was alone at the time he was shot. His wife, employed by the Retail Merchants Association, was away from home working. Their daughter, Lyndal, was at Breckenridge High School, where she is a senior.
CAME HERE AS A BOY
                Lusby had lived in Breckenridge since coming here as a boy in the town’s oil boom days. He was born Nov. 13, 1910, at Fort Worth.
                Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by his step-mother, Mrs. M.M. Lusby of Frankston; two sisters, Mrs. Percy Yoakum of Kilgore and Mrs. Leroy Pothoff of Gladewater; one brother, Raymond of Hobbs, N.M.; five step-sisters, Mrs. E.T. Autrey of Santa Monica, Calif., Mrs. Jimmie Clifton of Conroe, Mrs. Boyd Putman of Austin, Mrs. Lorene Tharp of Frankston and Mrs. R.H. Thompson of Breckenridge.
                Elks will have charge of the graveside service. Pallbearers will be Isadore Cohen, Boyd Humphreys, M.G. Dalton, T.O. Robinson, Vic Ridley, Felix Huffman, Roy White, and Jay Wilson.

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