Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1918 — ELDEST SON DIES IN MONTANA [ARTICLE]

ELDEST SON DIES IN MONTANA

Mrs. James West Received Sad Tidings Monday Afternoon. Mrs. James West received a telegram Monday afternoon stating that her eldest son, Earl West, who was located at Billinggs, Montana, had died there of typhoid pneumonia the previous day and that his five-year-old son was also sick with the same disease and not expected to live. The funeral was to be held there today and the time was too short for any relatives here to go. The news of her son’s death came as a great shock to Mrs. West, who had only received word Saturday that he was sick but it was supposed he was getting better, and the telegram informing her of his death almost prostrated her. Mr. West was thirty-four years of age and leaves a wife and three children. He also leaves a father and mother, one brother, Wayne West, now of Denver, Colorado, and five sisters, Mrs. Mann Spitler of Thayer, Mrs. Ben Hansson of near Rensselaer, and Misses Edith, Elizabeth and Faustina West, who reside at the family home in this city. He had been located in Billings for the past two years and conducted a garage there. Hfis father is in Billings at the present time, and an uncle and aunt also reside there.