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"So Closes the Book, the Story Ends"
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Viquesney's last piece, Comrades, depicting a WWI Doughboy greeting his WWII GI counterpart.
Photo by Harlan Ogle, Monticello, KY.
Viquesney's second wife, Betty [Sadler], whose loss was too much for him to bear.
Photo: Indianapolis Star, Feb. 11, 1940.
With the death of his second wife, Betty, on August 21, 1946, just 16 days after his 70th birthday, Viquesney felt he had been dealt a mortal blow. He committed suicide on October 4, 1946, the thirteenth anniversary of the death of his first wife, Cora. The obituary below contains a "life history" written by Viquesney himself, which he had arranged to be delivered to the local newspaper.
E. M. Viquesney's self-written obituary.
