Mrs. Eloise Ward Schweiger, nineteen, wife of Sgt. Owen Schweiger, of Delphi, was killed instantly at ten o'oclock at West Lafayette, Tuesday evening when a shotgun in the automobile in which she was sitting discharged accidently.
  Mrs. Schweiger, an employee in the Purdue University Union Memorial Building since last Monday, left the building about 8:30 o'clock last night following work and entered a car parked near the West Lafayette high school nearby to talk with friends.  The shotgun lay on the shelf above the rear seat of the car where Mrs. Schweiger and two girls were sitting.  The girls were Eva Bougher, 18, Delphi, Rural Route 4, and Rosalie Shaffer, W. Lafayette, formerly of Ockley.  Others in the car were Clyde Spear, 20, of Bringhurst and Max Daley, 19, of Cutler to whom the car belonged.
  The accident was said to have happened when Mrs. Schweiger lifted the shotgun from the shelf and was examining it.  It was discharged accidentally with the shell blast entering the girl's head on the right side.
  Sgt. Schweiger and Eloise Ward were married on April 15, 1942.  A member of the Delphi national guard unit, Schweiger has been in the armed forces since January, 1941.  He is stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and was notified of the tragedy last evening in the hospital there, where he has been a patient since Oct. 6.  He was injured in the ankle while on maneuvers.
  The young girl was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Ward of Ockley.  The parents survive with a sister, Mrs. Frances Humbarger of Delphi and a brother, Lowell Ward of near Ockley.
  The body has been taken to the Leiter Funeral home in Flora pending funeral arrangements.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Delphi Citizen, Thursday, November 5, 1942