Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — ENTIRE FAMILY IS WIPED OUT [ARTICLE]

ENTIRE FAMILY IS WIPED OUT

Granddaughter of W- R. Nowels, Husband and Two Children Die. Mention was made in Wednesday’s Democrat of the death of Mrs. Lawrence Nickel, a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels of this city, and her Infant daughter at Longmont, Colorado, from Influenza, and on Thursday morning Vern Nowels received another telegram telling of the death of Mr. Nickel on Tuesday, and the 4-year-old daughter on Wednesday. Thus the entire family were victims of this disease in lefts than a week’s time. The funerals were held Thursday afternoon at Longmont and all four buried in one grave.