Wayne E. Hartmann

Born - March 21, 1940
Suicide - October 27, 1959

Wayne last lived in Logansport
and had been a student at Indiana University


FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOUND IN PHAROS TRIBUNE, Oct 28, 1959 ARCHIVES

     Final services for 19-year-old Wayne Hartmann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hartmann, 3100 Summit Avenue, Logansport, Indiana, will be at 1:30 Friday at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.  The Reverend Waleer Davis, Jr., will officiate and burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
     Friends may call at the McCloskey-Hamilton-Kahle Funeral Home after two o’clock this afternoon [10-28-59].  The body will lie in state at the church one hour before rites.
     The youth, a sophomore at Indiana University, was found dead in a car parked in the closed garage of his home at 7 a.m., Tuesday.
     Police, called to the scene, said death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning.  Firemen from the Central Station and a physician tried for more than an hour to revive him by means of an inhalator.
     His father said when the youth came home from college last week he was ill, and had been in Memorial Hospital for a checkup on Wednesday and Thursday.  He was dismissed Friday noon.
     Further motive for the act was ascribed by the father to the son’s overtaxing himself in his studies. He was a major in business at the University.
     Born in Gary, Indiana, March 21, 1940, he was the son of Norman and Lorraine I Anderson Hartmann.
     He was graduated in 1958 from Logansport High School.
     Survivors are his parents; one sister, Mrs. Ronald Hass, Gary; several aunts and uncles.  (updated 7-18-2011)