Vernon Marie Conner Penicks, 34, female, was shot to death in Magazine, Arkansas, on May 21, 1955. She was killed alongside her 11-year-old daughter, Veda Marilyn Penicks, a double tragedy that shook the small Logan County community. Contemporary memorial listings place both deaths on the same day and in the same town, documenting the case as a fatal shooting.
Born Vernon Marie Conner, she had ties to Terry County, Texas, where family records note the Penicks’ roots.
After the killings, both mother and daughter were memorialized back in Terry County; cemetery records list Vernon’s burial at Terry County Memorial Cemetery in Brownfield, and genealogical entries trace Veda’s parentage to Marvin Farris Penicks and Vernon Marie Conner, reaffirming the family connection across Texas and Arkansas.
Publicly available memorials and archival references consulted for this synopsis do not report any arrests or identify any suspects connected to the murders. No official charging information appears in those sources, and none name a person of interest; the case is preserved mainly through memorial and genealogical records rather than detailed investigative accounts.
