Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — SAMUEL L. LUCE DIES SUDDENLY [ARTICLE]

SAMUEL L. LUCE DIES SUDDENLY

FORMER TRUSTEE OF KEENER TOWNSHIP PASSES AWAY. Mrs. Abraham Halleck received word this Monday morning of the sudden death ormer brother, Samuel L. Luce, of Englewood, 111. Mr. Luce had not been in good health for more than a year and his doctor had advised him _that his heart was in very bad condition. Full particulars of his death have not been received, but the news of his death was a very severe shock to his sister, who had not been advised that her brother had been ill. Tt is possible that his death was very sudden and was not preceded by a period of sickness. His father' and mother both died very suddenly, the father without warning and the mother after hut three days’ illness. Sam uel L. Luce was —forty-four years of age. He leaves to mourn their loss, his beloved wife, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spencer, of DeMotte, besides two children, a son, Howard, aged twenty years, and a daughter, Bernice, agedj

twenty-two. For a number of years he has been in the undertaking business in Englewood. Previous* to moving to —Englewood he was a resident of DeMotte and served the township of Keener as its trustee. He was a man who had a great, many Lends,due to his most pleasing disposition. He had a wide circle of very warm friends in this county who will receive the news of his untimely death with saddened hearts. He will be missed by his wife and children and my his sister, Mrs, Halleck, who is the only surviving member of a ojice most happy family. But he will be remembered by all as one of the finest examples of manhood they have ever been privilegd to, know.