THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Marlin, Falls County, Texas
Thursday, September 21, 1961

GEORGE ENGLISH
VETERAN NURSE
DIES OF WOUND

       George Ellis English, veteran 51-year-old colored male nurse at Torbett Clinic and Hospital, was found dying of a shotgun wound early Thursday morning at his home, 905 Coleman Street in Marlin.
       His son, George English, Jr., teacher in the Temple public school system, who arrived in Marlin soon after being notified of his father's death, said his father was checking a shotgun about 5:30 a.m., preparatory to going hunting with a friend.  The son said his father apparently was unaware the gun contained a shell.  He said his father was struck in the neck when the gun accidentally discharged, and died before he could be removed to a hospital.  His mother, he said, was at at the time, but in another part of the house.
       Sheriff Brady Pamplin and Justice of the Peace J. E. (Peg) Powell investigated the shooting.  Powell returned an inquest stating "death was self inflicted by shotgun" -- a finding contrary to the family version of the death.
       English senior had been employed at Torbett's the last 31 years.  He was a Marlin native, one of 12 children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Allen English.  He was a member of the Marlin Baptist Church on Bennett Street, the colored Chamber of Commerce, and the American Woodmen Lodge.
       The body is resting at Dorsey - Keatts Funeral in Marlin.  Arrangements are awaiting the arrival of relatives.
       Surviving are his widow, Lillie Mae English, a nurse at Torbett Clinic and Hospital; one son, George Jr.; three daughters, Mrs. Fay Kyles, teacher in the Houston schools, Mrs. Robbie A. Weatherspoon, also of Houston, and Mrs. Jewellene Scales of Boston, and nin(e) grandchildren.

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