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San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California, Thursday, April 28, 1966, Page 2, Col. 4: Concord Man Kills Self. Concord (AP)---A Concord real estate man died today from what police said was a self-inflicted rifle wound after critically wounding the woman who had rejected him. Ralph Thomas Aldrich, 57, died at Contra Costa hospital in Martinez. The woman, Mrs. Mary E. Elledge, 43, a widow, was in John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek.

Police said Aldrich came to Concord two years ago, leaving his wife of more than 30 years. Officers said Mrs. Elledge recently tried to stop seeing him because of the difference in their ages. Police said Aldrich went to her home in Concord Wednesday evening and found her working in the garden with her 15-year-old daughter. When she again told him she did not wish to see him, he reportedly wounded her with a shotgun. The shocked daughter called police, who went to Aldrich's home and found him in the bathroom with a rifle bullet wound in the head.

Birth	11 Nov 1909	Hampton, Franklin Co., Iowa
Birth	Abt 1910	Hampton, Franklin Co., Iowa
Marriage	16 Aug 1926	Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa - Faye Irene Terry
Marriage	26 Jun 1930	Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa - Ruth Lucille Bickley
Death	28 Apr 1966	Concord, Contra Costa Co., California
Marriage		Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa - Faye Irene Terry
Alt name		Chick
Alt name		Ralph Aldrich
Birth		Hampton, Franklin Co., Iowa
Residence		Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa
Race		White
Burial		Unknown

Spouse	Faye Irene Terry (1909 - )
Child	Robert Aldrich (1927 - )

Spouse	Ruth Lucille Bickley (1911 - 1952)
Child	Ralph Lloyd Aldrich (1932 - 1983)

Father	Fred Aldrich (1877 - 1950)
Mother	Grace May Brisco (1880 - 1944)
Sibling	Leonard Lee Aldrich (1901 - 1951)
Sibling	Lawrence Fred "Hap" Aldrich (1904 - 1990)
Sibling	Clyde Albert Aldrich (1905 - 1964)
Sibling	Erma Rose Aldrich (1907 - 1980)
Sibling	Marguerite Jenny Aldrich (1911 - 1985)