PROPHETSTOWN ECHO
Nov. 11, 1981

DAVID GUDGELL

David Leroy GUDGELL, 20, RR1, Tampico, died Monday morning in Community General Hospital, Sterling, following an apparently self-inflicted gunshot would on Saturday.

District state police at LaSalle said GUDGELL was found wouunded at his home near Yorktown Saturday night, apparently by a self-inflicted shotgun wound.

Services were held Wed. at 2 p.m. at the Yorktown Church of Christ with the Rev. Robert ERNST officiating. Burial was in Yorktown Cemetery.

A memorial has een established to the Yorktown Church of Christ.

David GUDGELL was born in Sterling, the son of Lester Albet and Anita (GUMPHOR) GUDGELL.

Mr. GUDGELL was a 1979 graduate of Tampico High School, and was employed at Wahl Clipper Corp. in Sterling at the time of his death.

Mr. GUDGELL was a member of the American Federation of Musicians and the Yorktown church of Christ.

He is survived by his parents, one sister, Mrs. Lee HANSON, Putnam; a half sister, Mrs. Marvin MARTENSON, Bartlett; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Leona HAYDEN, Clearwater, Kan.; and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Anna GUDGELL, Prophetstown.

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Article on front page of same paper (Prophetstown Echo, Wed., Nov. 11, 1981)

GUNSHOT FATAL

Although an inquest is still pending into the death of David LeRoy GUDGELL, 20, of rural Tampico, Whiteside County Coroner James GRENNAN notes that the young man's death was "definitely self-induced."

According to Dist. 17 state police, GUDGELL was found wounded of a gnshopt wound at his home near Yorktown Saturday night. He was transported too Community General Hospital in Sterling and died Monday morning at 7:00 a.m.

According to GRENNAN, GUDGELL shot himself in the abdoman with a .12 guage shotgun. GRENNAN hopes to hold an inquest into the death either Friday of this week or early next week.

A complete obituary on David GUDGELL can be found on page 5.