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Facts and Events
| Name |
Louis Lee Hosler |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2][3] |
10 May 1905 |
Echo, Antrim, Michigan, United States |
| Marriage |
10 May 1938 |
Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, United Statesto Frances Nina Poynter |
| Death[2][4][3][5] |
14 Jun 1943 |
Portland (township), Ionia, Michigan, United Statesage 38 - death by suicide |
| Burial[3] |
17 Jun 1943 |
Portland (township), Ionia, Michigan, United States |
He may have been named after his aunt Jennie's new husband.
Gloria Allen, his niece, said she was told he had a bad leg because he had bone tuberculosis.
After his mother died, he lived with the Murphys. Ray Murphy said he loved life and loved to dance, even with a lame leg. He doesn't believe he would ever kill himself. Luke had a hard time during the depression and Ray saw him selling newspapers in Detroit. Ted, Louis' brother, also saw him selling papers on a street corner in Detroit and they hooked up with each other for a while.
Image Gallery
 Abt 1906 - L to R: Izetta, Sadie, Alex, Louis, Minnie, Alex, Mary, Joseph (Minnie is pregnant with Dorothy)  Abt 1906 - Louis Lee Hosler, cropped  Abt 1925 - Louis Lee Hosler References
- ↑ Compiler: Antrim County. Michigan County Clerk. Antrim County Michigan Births
Delayed. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sadie Hosler Lanore, Record Type: Hand written notes.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Funeral Memorial Card. Funeral Mem Card.
- ↑ Ionia County, Michigan deaths.
Book E pg 142 No 17258. Parents names are included, but with errors.
- ↑ Obituary, in Daily Sentinel-Standard
3, 15 Jun 1943.
Louis Hosler, 38, Ionia county farmer and factory worker, took his own life Monday evening shortly after 6:00 o'clock at his farm, north of Portland on the Portland-Lyons road, by shooting himself through the heart with a 12 gauge shotgun. He was still breathing when his wife found him face down in the drive to the barn. Sheriff Leslie Murphy and Coroner Harry Myers investigated and attributed death to suicide, and said no inquest would be held. According to Mrs. Hosler, he had been farming nights and working days in the Harley-Earthart factory, and it was believed that he was despondent due to overwork. He is survived by his wife and a 10-year-old niece, Gloria Leach, who lived with them.
Source: Daily Sentinal-Standard, Tuesday, June 15, 1943 pg 3.
Daily Sentinal-Standard, Tuesday, June 15, 1943 pg 3. 
- Grand Rapids Herald
34, 15 Jun 1943.
OVERWORK IS HELD CAUSE OF SUICIDE
Ionia -- Despondency due to overwork is believed to have caused Louis Hosler, 38, Ionia, county farmer and factory worker, to take his own life Monday shortly after 6 o'clock.
Hosler moved to a farm north of Portland on the Portland-Lyons road early in April and, according to Mrs. Hosler, was farming nights as long as he could see and working days in the Harley-Earhart factory. She told sheriff Leslie Murphy and Coroner Harry Meyers that when Hosler did not come to supper Monday she went to look for him and found him, face down, in the drive to the barn. Believing he had fallen on a pitchfork, she turned him over and found he had shot himself through the heart with a 13-gauge shotgun. He was still breathing then, she said. Officers attributed death to suicide and said no inquest will be held. The body was removed to the Nellery funeral home in Portland.
Mrs. Hosler and a 10-year-old niece, Gloria Leach, who lived with them, are the only survivors.
Source: Grand Rapids Herald, Tuesday, June 15, 1943, pg. 34.
Grand Rapids Herald, Tuesday, June 15, 1943, pg. 34 
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