Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — FORMER DEMOTTE MAN DEAD [ARTICLE]

FORMER DEMOTTE MAN DEAD

Samuel L. Luce Passed Away at His Home in Chicago. Word was received here Monday by Mrs. Abraham Halleck of the death in Chicago of her only brother, Samuel L. Luce. Death was quite sudden and was caused by heart failure, with which the ceased had been affected for some months. Mr. Luce was a former resident of Detmotte and at one time served as trustee of Keener township, and was quite well known to many people in Jasper county. Several years ago he went to Englewood and has since been engaged in the undertaking business there. He was forty-four years of age and besides his sister here, is survived by his wife and one son and one daughter, Howard, aged twenty, and Bernice, aged twenty-one. Deceased was a member of the Ogden Park lodge No. 897, F. & A. M ; M. J. M. Pierson chapter No. 231, R. A. M.; Englewood lodge 653 K. of P., and Denmark lodge No. 908, I. O. O. F. The funeral will be held this Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Thoburn Methodist church, and burial will be in charge of Ogden Park lodge No. 897, F. & A. M. Burial will be made in the Mt. Hope cemetery.