Extremely weird obituary.

[yella_dawg]

From today's (03/05/2010) Wichita Falls Texas Times Record News obituary section.


"Ms. Powers married Harold Eugene Vest, her first husband, during World War II. Her husband was murdered in his cabinet shop in Gainsville, TX as a result of an interrogation by torture by intelligence agents representing the MIS, ONI, FBI, and OSS. Ruth was drugged at her home during the interrogation and awoke to find her husband strangled to death in his shop. The experience haunted her for most of her life until the facts of the death were discovered as a result of an intensive investigation begun in 2003 and that is still under way."



That's it. From there it goes back to ordinary obituary stuff. My mind is fully blown. Any ideas? Anyone ever heard of this? OSS was broken up and transformed to CIA and so forth one month after the end of WWII. The death would almost certainly have been during the war, so she, at least, would have been fairly young.


Weird

[mikelgb]

1. RIP Ms. Powers

[heli]

2. Harold Eugene Vest was on 48 Hours:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/08/48hours/main672369.shtml

Feb. 12, 2005
Postmarked For Murder
48 Hours Mystery: A Son Learns His Dad's 'Suicide' Was Murder
By Rebecca Leung

(CBS) Herb Vest was not quite 2 years old when he lost his father. And now, 58 years later, the pain still lingers. Correspondent Harold Dow reports on this 48 Hours Mystery.

"Suicide is a very selfish thing. And it leaves survivors, I believe, with a certain amount of guilt. It's unreasoned guilt, but it leaves the survivors with that feeling," says Herb. "There's nothing worse than to believe that your father was a coward and would voluntarily leave his wife and baby."

"Why didn’t we know something was wrong with him? Why didn’t we catch it? Why didn’t we see something," says Ruth Vest, who was just 23 when she became a widow. "I had had a really easy life, you know, a fortunate life. And I didn't know those things happened to people."

The suicide of Harold "Buddy" Vest took everyone by surprise. The 25-year-old had just returned from World War II. He and Ruth had just bought a new house, and he was starting his own cabinet shop in the small town of Gainesville, Texas...

[RagAss]

3. WOW.....I see a movie script in the works.

[kickysnana]

4. A friends father worked on switches for atomic bombs and suffered radiation burns in an accident.

The father was "reminded" he was being watched a few times a year, one time they wanted to know why he was sending a Christmas Card to a homosexual, a neighbor and fellow church member. He had been a tough guy but he was afraid of the people watching. Finally he actually stopped having a phone in the house and then told his kids to move away and have limited contact with him so they would not have surveillance their whole lives.

When he died in Madison WI about 1986 in a veterans home from complications from the radiation poisoning he was autopsied without family permission. The funeral home director notified the family.

As a civilian he held jobs as a design engineer and large equipment salesman.

[pansypoo53219]

5. more cryptic

than a fun immigrant's obit in milwaukee, polish i think or a balkan and her travels thru siberia to japan, to the US.
she really didn't want him forgotten.

[deaniac21]

6. I think she later married another spook...Austin Powers.

[WVRICK13]

7. So Nothing Has Changed

We are just more informed now.