Independent Enterprise
September 09, 1937
JOHN APPLEGATE DIES SUDDENLY
Native of Payette County Died Friday In Ontario Hospital; Buried At New Plymouth
John Applegate died in the Ontario hospital Friday afternoon at 1:30 from self-inflicted wounds from a 22 rifle. the cause of his suicide was not known.
John Orrin Applegate was born on the Applegate ranch near New Plymouth August 21, 1905. On November 18, 1929 he married Agnes Rants at Ontario, Oregon. He died at the age of thirty-two years and thirteen days.
He leaves to mourn his passing his wife and two step-children. Allen and Vivadell, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Applegate, Sr. of New Plymouth, two sisters, Mrs. Harry Pence and Mrs. Nellie Manis of McCall, two brothers, James of the Alvord ranch in Oregon and Samuel of New Plymouth and many friends.
The final rites were held in the Baptist church in New Plymouth under the direction of the Landon Funeral home with Rev. Dallas McNeil officiating. Rev. and Mrs. McNeil sang, "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" accompanied by Ellyne Hallman. The interment was made in the Applegate cemetery.
