Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1918 — THEODORE JESSEE PNUEMONIA VICTIM. [ARTICLE]

THEODORE JESSEE PNUEMONIA VICTIM.

The Comer Sisters reveiced a message today from Valparaiso announcing the death at 1:20 this Wednesday morning of Theodore Jessee. The deceased was for a number of years a clerk in the Chicago Bargain Store of this city. Mr. Forsythe was at that time the proprietor of. this store and Frank Wood was, at the time of- Mr. Jessee’s employment there, also ‘a clerk fa/ the same establishment Mr. Jessee will be well and favorably remembered by a large number of Rensselaer people as he was a very popular young man and had a host of friends here. While here he made his home with the Comer Sisters. Since leaving Rensselaer Mr. Jessee had married, and is survived by a wife and five children. The oldest is a son, about fifteen years of age and the youngest child is about five year sold. He was at the time of his death the owner of a jewelry store in Valparaiso and had succeeded splendidly. He was about 45 years of age.