Couple dies in home fire

Decatur Daily Democrat:

Funeral services are pending at Zwick & Jahn Funeral Home for Claude E. West, 74, and his wife Donna K. West, 71, who died in a house fire early Thursday morning in the city.

Both died of smoke inhalation, according to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Hitchcock. One died in the living room and the other died in a bedroom.

An autopsy at Adams Memorial Hospital, led by Adams County Deputy Coroner Leslie Cook, determined the cause of death on Thursday.

No determination of the cause of the fire has yet been determined, except that it started in the living room.