Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Nevil Leßoy, son of James M. and Hattie L. Torbetr died Friday, November 29, 1918, at the age of 32 years and four months, after a lingering illness of tuberculosis extending over a period of five years. The immediate cause of his death, however, was influenza and pneumonia, which he contracted one week before his death. He was born July 29, 1886, near Thorntown, Indiana, and was baptized in infancy at the Presbyterian church at that place. There he obtained his early education, which was complete in Jasper county, being graduated from the Independence school in June, 1903. He was manned to Vernie Shroyer Sept. 10, 1911, to which union was born three children, Lucy Pauline, aged six years, Kenneth Shroyer, aged five years, and Beatrice Elizabeth, aged two years. He leaves to mourn 'his death besides a wife and three children, a father'and mother, and the following sisters'and brothers: Mrs. Nellie Beck, Fillmore, Ind.; Mrs. Maggie Hornickel, Roberts, Ill.; 'Mrs. Ethel Cragun, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. Flossie Dale, Parr, Ind.; Mrs. Chloae Wells, Gary,'lnd.; Miss Creola Torbet, at home; Wirt Torbet, Indianapolis; Bluford Torbet, Parr; John Torbet, Lebanon; Charles Torbet, at home; and many nieces and nephews and a host of friends. Although he had suffered untold agony for months, he awaited the end fearlessly, realizing “that a man who is fit to live need not fear death.” Funeral services were conducted by Rev. I. H. Ade at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and burial was made at the Dunkard cemetery.