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Homer Jack Roos

Birth	:	28 Aug 1916
Death	:	26 Nov 1964
Burial	:	Waco Cemetery, Waco, York County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8943000, -97.4658000
Plot	:	A Lot 134 2nd Addition
Description	:	Failing health was given as possible cause of the suicide Wednesday night of a former Waco groceryman, 48, year old Homer (Jack) Roos. The body was found by a brother Will(Dade) Roos, about noon Thursday. It is believed Roos has been dead about ten hours. He was seen in Waco about 6 p.m. Wednesday. According to Sheriff Lewis Ekart, Roos had apparently taken an overdose of sleeping pills and also mixed cyanide powder with beer, all of which were found in the room which Roos had fixed as living quarters in a building in downtown Waco. For... Read More	Failing health was given as possible cause of the suicide Wednesday night of a former Waco groceryman, 48, year old Homer (Jack) Roos. The body was found by a brother Will(Dade) Roos, about noon Thursday. It is believed Roos has been dead about ten hours. He was seen in Waco about 6 p.m. Wednesday. According to Sheriff Lewis Ekart, Roos had apparently taken an overdose of sleeping pills and also mixed cyanide powder with beer, all of which were found in the room which Roos had fixed as living quarters in a building in downtown Waco. For several years Roos operated the Roos Grocery which he sold about five years ago. He also operted a produce concern and more recently had driven a milk truck. Born in Waco, the son of Mrs. Bertha Roos and the late Fred Roos, he had been a life-time resident of the village. Surviving in addition to his mother who lives in Waco, are his widow, the former Mary Lou Alsteadt of Palmyra; three children, Sandra, 15, Julia, 3, and Larry, 11; two brothers, Will(Dade) of Waco and Albert of Gibbon, and three sisters Mrs. Hilda Peterson of Stromsburg, Mrs. Edith Yaeger of Pleasant Dale, and Florence Roos of Waco. A sister, Esther(Mrs. Paul Gocke), died about 10 years ago. His father also preceded him in death. Mrs.Roos(Mary Lou) and Sandra, who were in Stevenson, Wash, are expected to arrive home Saturday. The other two Roos children, Julie and Larry, are making their home with the Will(Dade) Roos family. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Metz Chapel. Burial will be in Waco Cemetery.

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Homer Jack Roos death on 26 Nov 1964 in
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Latitude: 40.8943000
Longitude: -97.4658000

Family Members:

Parent

Fred Roos

(1881 - 1941)

Bertha Caroline Roos

(1881 - 1967)

Siblings

Will “Dade” Roos

(1906 - 1974)

Esther Sophia Roos Gocke

(1909 - 1954)

Edith A. Roos Yaeger

(1914 - 2001)

Florence Roos

(1920 - 1984)

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