Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1906 — Sudden Death of Claud leek. [ARTICLE]

Sudden Death of Claud leek.

Claud Leek, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Leek, well known residents of west of Surrey, and a brother of Frank Leek, the railway mail clerk of this place, died very suddenly last Monday, Jan. 15th, at Oxford, Wis., where he had been located for two years, as a telegraph operator, in the employ of the C. d. & St. P. R. B. The cause of his death was some form of heart disease. His age was 20 years, 3 months and 21 days. Young as he was he was a capable operator and tad held his position for two years. He was an industrious and most worthy young man in all respects, and bis death is a grevious -blow to bis sorrowing parents, three broth ers and one sister, and all the greater from its sudden and entirely unexpected character. The body was sent back here for >urial, but being greatly detained by the heavy snows in northern Wisconsin, did not arrive until late Thursday night. It was taken at once to the home of his brother Frank, on Van Bensselaer street, and the funeral was held there at i;wo o’clock last Friday afternoon, by Rev. B. F. Ferguson. Inter ment was made in Weston cemetery.