Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 11:57:38 :
Marin Journal
Thursday, July 18, 1935
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Willard M. Beam Kills Self in Garage of Kentfield Home
Shutting himself in his garage and starting the engine of his automobile, Willard M. Beam, Kentfield resident, died of asphyxiation last Sunday, caused from fused carbon monoxide gas from the exhaust.
When he left the house he told his wife, Geraldine, that he was going to water the garden. Instead he went direct to the garage, placed a garden hose over the exhaust pipe of the car, put the other end into the car and closed all of the windows and awaited death. He was found dead by his wife a few hours afterward.
In the car was found three notes of a personal nature providing for disposition of funds to his wife.
He gave as the reason for suicide financial trouble and worry.
Beam was a native of Sacramento, aged 49 years, and was the father of Mrs. Barbara Bengston and Miss Marjorie Beam. The body was taken to Oakland Tuesday afternoon and interment was at Mountain View cemetery.
Beam and his wife were residing in the Pixley residence at Kentfield. They had recently come from Willows, Yolo county, where Beam had been foreman for the DePue Warehouse Company.
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