Newspapers: Gary Allen Warner; Drowning at Emigrant Lake, Jackson Co., Oregon *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Oct 2002 ************************************************************************ WARNER, Gary Allen, Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Monday, 26 June 1944, p. 1 -- Ashland Youth Loses Life In Emigrant Lake Gary Allen Warner Drowns While Playing On Rocks During Sunday Picnic Seven-year-old Gary Allen Warner, son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Warner of Ashland, former Medford residents, drowned in Emigrant lake south of Ashland late Sunday afternoon, bringing to a tragic end a picnic and boating party being enjoyed by his parents and the Vernon W. Conley family, also of Ashland. According to Deputy Coroner C. M. Litwiller, the little boy apparently slipped while playing on some rocks out of view of the other persons int eh party, and fell into deep water, about half way between the Pacific highway and Emigrant dam on the right side of the lake. Litwiller said he learned that Gary was missed by his parents about 5 p.m., just as everybody was getting ready to eat. After a futile, lengthy search the Ashland fire department was notified and asked to bring grappling hooks to the scene, but prior to their arrival Vernon Conley, employee of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, recovered the body with a casting rod. Artificial respiration was administered by the adults in the party until the arrival of firemen, state police, a sheriff'[s deputy and Litwiller, after which they continued to work over the boy for almost two hours. An Ashland physician, who was also called, pronounced him dead some three hours after he had last been seen. The boy, only child of the Warners, was born in Medford, March 13, 1937. Mr. Warner is employed by the Southern Pacific in Ashland. Other survivors are his grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Miller of Ashland, his grandfather, W. H. Warner, of Fresno, Cal., and an aunt, Frances Miller of Ashland. Funeral services have been set tentatively for Wednesday at 1:30 at Litwiller's.