Charleston (WV) Gazette, p. 12, Sunday, January 31, 1954:
Monoxide Kills West Side Man
A 57-year-old Washington St. man was found dead in his locked car yesterday, a victim of carbon monoxide poison.
Patrolman H. W. Summerfield said the county coroner, Dr. Goff P. Lilly, ruled that death was accidental.
The officer said the body of Luther H. Asbury of 1103 1/2 Washington St., W., was found slumped in the front seat of his car at 9:30 a. m. yesterday.
From force of habit Summerfield said he pulled his own car keys from his pocket and by coincidnce they worked in the other car's lock.
The ignition switch was on, the gas tank empty and the heater switch pulled on Asbury's car Summerfield said.
Asbury was a native of Kanawha County where he was born March 15, 1897, a son of the late Monroe and Martha Bailey Asbury. He'd worked for a steel company in Marion, O., until about a month ago.
Since he'd returned to Charleston, he'd been unemployed.
Surviving are his wife, Thelma, a hospital patient; a daughter, Miss Shirley Asbury; a sister, Mrs. Ella Stone and five brothers, Henry, Edward, Howard, Arnold and Carl Asbury all of Charleston.
Service will be at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at Long, Johnson and Fisher mortuary chapel with Rev. O. G. McKenny officiating. Burial will be in Asbury Cemetery on Kell's [sic] Creek. The body is at the mortuary.
Monoxide Kills West Side Man
A 57-year-old Washington St. man was found dead in his locked car yesterday, a victim of carbon monoxide poison.
Patrolman H. W. Summerfield said the county coroner, Dr. Goff P. Lilly, ruled that death was accidental.
The officer said the body of Luther H. Asbury of 1103 1/2 Washington St., W., was found slumped in the front seat of his car at 9:30 a. m. yesterday.
From force of habit Summerfield said he pulled his own car keys from his pocket and by coincidnce they worked in the other car's lock.
The ignition switch was on, the gas tank empty and the heater switch pulled on Asbury's car Summerfield said.
Asbury was a native of Kanawha County where he was born March 15, 1897, a son of the late Monroe and Martha Bailey Asbury. He'd worked for a steel company in Marion, O., until about a month ago.
Since he'd returned to Charleston, he'd been unemployed.
Surviving are his wife, Thelma, a hospital patient; a daughter, Miss Shirley Asbury; a sister, Mrs. Ella Stone and five brothers, Henry, Edward, Howard, Arnold and Carl Asbury all of Charleston.
Service will be at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at Long, Johnson and Fisher mortuary chapel with Rev. O. G. McKenny officiating. Burial will be in Asbury Cemetery on Kell's [sic] Creek. The body is at the mortuary.
Charleston (WV) Gazette, p. 12, Sunday, January 31, 1954:
Monoxide Kills West Side Man
A 57-year-old Washington St. man was found dead in his locked car yesterday, a victim of carbon monoxide poison.
Patrolman H. W. Summerfield said the county coroner, Dr. Goff P. Lilly, ruled that death was accidental.
The officer said the body of Luther H. Asbury of 1103 1/2 Washington St., W., was found slumped in the front seat of his car at 9:30 a. m. yesterday.
From force of habit Summerfield said he pulled his own car keys from his pocket and by coincidnce they worked in the other car's lock.
The ignition switch was on, the gas tank empty and the heater switch pulled on Asbury's car Summerfield said.
Asbury was a native of Kanawha County where he was born March 15, 1897, a son of the late Monroe and Martha Bailey Asbury. He'd worked for a steel company in Marion, O., until about a month ago.
Since he'd returned to Charleston, he'd been unemployed.
Surviving are his wife, Thelma, a hospital patient; a daughter, Miss Shirley Asbury; a sister, Mrs. Ella Stone and five brothers, Henry, Edward, Howard, Arnold and Carl Asbury all of Charleston.
Service will be at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at Long, Johnson and Fisher mortuary chapel with Rev. O. G. McKenny officiating. Burial will be in Asbury Cemetery on Kell's [sic] Creek. The body is at the mortuary.
Monoxide Kills West Side Man
A 57-year-old Washington St. man was found dead in his locked car yesterday, a victim of carbon monoxide poison.
Patrolman H. W. Summerfield said the county coroner, Dr. Goff P. Lilly, ruled that death was accidental.
The officer said the body of Luther H. Asbury of 1103 1/2 Washington St., W., was found slumped in the front seat of his car at 9:30 a. m. yesterday.
From force of habit Summerfield said he pulled his own car keys from his pocket and by coincidnce they worked in the other car's lock.
The ignition switch was on, the gas tank empty and the heater switch pulled on Asbury's car Summerfield said.
Asbury was a native of Kanawha County where he was born March 15, 1897, a son of the late Monroe and Martha Bailey Asbury. He'd worked for a steel company in Marion, O., until about a month ago.
Since he'd returned to Charleston, he'd been unemployed.
Surviving are his wife, Thelma, a hospital patient; a daughter, Miss Shirley Asbury; a sister, Mrs. Ella Stone and five brothers, Henry, Edward, Howard, Arnold and Carl Asbury all of Charleston.
Service will be at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at Long, Johnson and Fisher mortuary chapel with Rev. O. G. McKenny officiating. Burial will be in Asbury Cemetery on Kell's [sic] Creek. The body is at the mortuary.
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