Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — CLIFFORD SUMNER DEAD [ARTICLE]

CLIFFORD SUMNER DEAD

Rensselaer Auto Mechanician Died Yesterday at 1 P. M. of Consumption. Clifford Sumner, aged about 23 years, an auto mechanician who has been employed for the past three or four years in Rensselaer garages and who has been a sufferer from lung trouble for some time, died at his home in the east part of town yesterday at 1 p. m. Arrangements for the funeral had not been made at the time The Democrat went to press. “Cliff,’’ as he was familiarly called, had lots of grit and kept at work whenever possible and he was able to get about. Of late he had been employed at the Central garage, where he hhd worked up to Friday evening last. Since that time he had been confined to his home, but it was not thought the end was near and his death came as a distinct shock to his family and friends. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Mary Knauff of Rensselaer, and two children, a boy and a girl, the oldest aged about two years. He had no other relatives here, his mother, Mrs. Lee Catt, living in Detroit.