Musil Article

FUNERAL SHUTS COUNTY OFFICES COURT HOUSE'S OCCUPANTS AT RITES FOR MRS. J.F. MUSIL

Funeral Services in Cleburne at 1 o'clock Are Followed by Rites in Manhattab: Children Here

The county Court House was closed from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. today to permit personnel in the county offices to attend funeral services this afternoon for the late Mrs. Augusta Musil, wife of District Clerk, Joseph F. Musil, who hanged herself in the garage of the Musil residence, 1422 Poyntz, early Sunday morning.

City Hall personnel also attended the services, with the exception of the police and fire departments on duty at those stations, and many offices and stores were represented at the last rites, held at the Burliew-Cowan funeral home at 3 p.m. to pay tribute to the dead woman's memory.

Services at Cleburne The Manhattan services for Mrs. Musil followed services that were held at 1 p.m. at the First Methodist church at Cleburne, in which community Mrs. Musil was born March 11, 1895. She had been a member of the Cleburne church for many years

The services at Cleburne were conducted by the Rev. M. W. Whitlow, pastor of the church with the assistance of the Rev. Alex Ekert, former pastor during Mrs. Musil's earlier membership and who was called to Cleburne from his present pastorate for the services today.

The Rev. Mr. Ekert will officiated also at the later services in Manhattan with the assistance of Dr. A. E. Kirk, pastor the of the FIrst Methodist church of Manhattan. and the Rev. B.A. Rogers, director of the local church's Wesley Foundation.. From Burliew-Cowan chapel the body was taken in funeral procession to Sunset cemetery for burial. Mrs. Musil was found dead in the family garage shortly before 8:24 a.m. Sunday by Mr. Musil, when he notified police (illegible) , she had given him medicine for an illness and had apparently then gone to the garage, where she was found an hour later.

Left No Explanation Dr. W. H. Clarkson, coroner, who went immediately to the Musil home with Chief of Police Clinton Bolte and Dr. W. M. Redizel, yesterday issued a certificate of death, by suicide. No coroner's inquest was considered necessary, the death obviously being one of suicide, he said Mrs. Musil left no explanation of her act, to which neither Mr. Musil nor the authorities could put a motive. She had shown no outward sign of being either ill or depressed, they said.

She leaves, besides her husband, a son and a daughter, Joseph D. Musil, Wilkinsburg, Pa. and Mrs. Calvin Thompson, Tulsa, Okla., both of whom came here for the funeral. She is survived also by her parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sedivy, Irving, Kan., one brother, Adolph Sedivy, Irving, and three sisters, all of whom live in Irving except Mrs. Fred Musil, wife of her husband's brother.