CAUSES OF DEATH

Robert James Winans, Sr.
born November 16, 1884 in Union, New Jersey
died October 5, 1955, in Weston, West Virginia, age 70 years.

Father: Isaac Winans
Mother: Anne Robinson
Wife: Blanche Taylor

Cause of death: Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

Arteriosclerotic heart disease (ASHD), is a thickening and hardening of the walls of the coronary arteries. Sometime between 1918 and 1942, Robert, a postal employee living in Parkersburg, West Virginia, suffered the amputation of all of the fingers on his left hand. There is no evidence on how that happened. By 1955, he was suffering from kidney and heart disease. In September of that year, he suffered a heart attack. He was taken to the State Hospital in Weston, West Virginia, where he died 15 days later on October 5, 1955. He was buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Parkersburg, now called Parkersburg Memorial Gardens.

Ironically, Robert's wife Blanche died of the same disease 8 years later, in 1963.

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