On the Saturday evening of June 3, 1978, Stanford committed suicide in his home in Fayetteville.[33][1][34] In her essay, "Death In The Cool Evening," widow Ginny Stanford notes that, having discovered her husband's infidelity, they argued about the matter;[26] subsequently, Stanford retreated to his bedroom, and moments later, gunshots were heard: on the morning of June 5, Deputy Coroner Hugh Huppert ruled the death a suicide, declaring that Stanford had thrice shot himself in the heart with a .22-caliber target pistol.[33][1][26][35] Both Ginny Stanford and C. D. Wright were in the house at the time of his death.[33][36] Stanford's funeral was held on June 6. He was buried in St. Benedict's Cemetery at Subiaco beneath a stand of yellow pines, five miles (eight km) from the Arkansas River.[33]
Father Fuhrmann, who had met with Stanford shortly before his death, feels that the poet had "a lot on his mind,"[19] and Wright and Ginny Stanford reported that he was depressed and withdrawn on the day of his suicide.[33] Stanford had also spent time at the Arkansas State Hospital (the state psychiatric hospital) in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1972[1] and may have had prior suicide attempts.[1] - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stanford
On the Saturday evening of June 3, 1978, Stanford committed suicide in his home in Fayetteville.[33][1][34] In her essay, "Death In The Cool Evening," widow Ginny Stanford notes that, having discovered her husband's infidelity, they argued about the matter;[26] subsequently, Stanford retreated to his bedroom, and moments later, gunshots were heard: on the morning of June 5, Deputy Coroner Hugh Huppert ruled the death a suicide, declaring that Stanford had thrice shot himself in the heart with a .22-caliber target pistol.[33][1][26][35] Both Ginny Stanford and C. D. Wright were in the house at the time of his death.[33][36] Stanford's funeral was held on June 6. He was buried in St. Benedict's Cemetery at Subiaco beneath a stand of yellow pines, five miles (eight km) from the Arkansas River.[33]
Father Fuhrmann, who had met with Stanford shortly before his death, feels that the poet had "a lot on his mind,"[19] and Wright and Ginny Stanford reported that he was depressed and withdrawn on the day of his suicide.[33] Stanford had also spent time at the Arkansas State Hospital (the state psychiatric hospital) in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1972[1] and may have had prior suicide attempts.[1] - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stanford