JOYCE, David Gage 1885-1937

JOYCE

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 7/31/2002 at 20:48:36

The Clinton Herald Saturday August 28, 1937 p. 5 David Gage Joyce, 52, son of Clinton's pioneer lumberman, William Joyce, Jr., died suddenly yesterday afternoon in his apartment at the Hotel St. Clair in Chicago. Funeral services will be held at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Chicago. The body will arrive in Clinton at 1:45 p.m. Monday and will be taken directly to Oakland cemetery where a brief service for friends and relatives will be held. Joyce and his brother, James Stanley, succeeded in 1909 to the lumber business founded by their grandfather, William T. Joyce. Their father, William, Jr., died in 1909. Surviving are the widow, Beatrice R., and a daughter, Beatrice G.