Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — DIED ON DAY SET FOR WEDDING [ARTICLE]

DIED ON DAY SET FOR WEDDING

Grover Purkey, son of former County Auditor A. E. Purkey of Morocco, died at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis last Saturday, following a brief illness and an operation for appendicitis. The young man was aged twenty-eight years and two months. He was a graduate of the Kentland high school and also of the chemical department of Purdue For- the pasT couple of years he had been employed by the Eli Lilly Manufacturing company of Indianapolis. He was engaged to be married to Miss Myrtle Elizabeth Carter, head nurse Of the Lilly hospital in Indianapolis, and the ceremony was to have taken place on the date of his death.