Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Tuesday, December 23, 1952

ARENDER RITES WILL BE TODAY

Funeral In Tallulah For 65-Year-Old Suicide Victim

TALLULAH, Dec. 23 (Special) -- Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist church here for Homer S. Arender, 65, well known farmer, who died of a self-inflicted wound Sunday.

The Rev. Shirley Briggs and the Rev. R. A. Coulter, pastor of Bethel Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silver Cross cemetery.

Arender is survived by three sons, James Howard of Sondheimer, Billy Ray and Donald Wayne of Tallulah; five daughters, Mrs. Louis Clement of Transylvania, Mrs. Chester Williams[on] and Mrs. Leslie Pitts of Tallulah and Mrs. Laura Piper and Mrs. Shirley Baker of Monahan, Tex.; two brothers, Monroe Arender of Monroe and Barney Arender of New Orleans; four sisters, Mrs. Laura Newton and Mrs. Nancy Nugent of Colfax and Mrs. Bessie Johnson and Mrs. Lawrence Buckhana of Oklahoma City, Okla., and 10 grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be William A. Florence, George Hopkins, Tobe Hopkins and Troy Beard.

Arender was a native of Riley [sic Raleigh], Miss., and had been a resident here for the past 23 years. A coroner's inquest decided he killed himself with a .22 rifle, pulling a trigger with a stick.

The rifle was found on the table near Arender, and the stick was wedged against the trigger.