Mrs. Betty Rennie, 25, Canton, a bride of three months, was killed instantly Saturday night when a charge from a 12-gauge shot gun was accidentally discharged by her husband, Gwynne. He told sheriff’s authorities that while spending the evening at the Kohler lounge with some friends, he and Raymond Frame recalled some night rabbit hunting trips they had made and decided to try their luck that night.
Frame took the couple to their apartment and Rennie said that in throwing the gun up over his shoulder as he started to light a cigarette, the gun discharged, striking his wife in the upper left side of her face. He said he had thought the gun was unloaded.
Rennie rushed his wife to the Graham hospital in the car of a friend, Raymond Frame, and police were notified immediately of the tragedy.
Mrs. Rennie competed in the Canton Works club’s beauty pageant held a year ago and was sponsored by the Canton Lions Club.
Her husband since last July has been a temporary substitute city letter carrier at the Canton postoffice where his father, the late Lloyd Rennie was a postoffice clerk for many years, up until his death some eight years ago.
A daughter of George and Edna L. Parker Lingenfelter, Mrs. Rennie was born in Canton on Nov. 14, 1925. She attended the Canton schools, being a member of the high school graduating class of 1943. She was married to James Gwynne Rennie in Canton on May 21, 1950. She is survived by her husband, her father, and a brother Vane P. Lingenfelter, all of Canton. She was employed as a comptometer operator in the payroll department of the International Harvester Company, Canton Works.
She was a member of the Canton Country Club and the First Methodist church.
Funeral services were held this afternoon.
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