Luce, Darrell 1913 - 1919

LUCE, MCCANN, SMITTLE, BUENNEKE

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/28/2013 at 12:21:24

Postville Herald, Fri., 12 Dec. 1919. In the Neighborhood News column.

Darrell Luce, a six-year-old lad of Maynard, was drowned in the river. He had evidently taken his sled and rode down the embankment onto the thin ice that broke through with him. (Submitter is not related.)

Additional obituary..
~Arlington News, November 27, 1919
Monday evening the town was greatly excited when it was made known that the little six year old Darell Luce was missing. He had come into the house with his sled and his mother, Mrs. George McCann, asked him to take it out to a shed, and when it began to get dark and he had not come into the house, a search was made for him. It was in the river where his little body was found. The river was frozen over and indications were that he had laid down on his sled and given it a push with his foot out into the thin ice about five feet where he broke through into four feet of water.

Coroner Smittle at Waucoma was notified but he decided that an inquest was not necessary. The little corpse was taken to Albert Buenneke's undertaking parlors where it was prepared for burial and the last services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church.

Darrell Kenneth Luce was born August 7, 1913, at Waterloo, Iowa and met his death November 17th, 1919, aged 6 years and 3 months. Darrell was of a quiet, lovable nature and will be greatly missed in the home as well as in the school and from his class in the Methodist Sunday school. The sorrowing relatives have the sympathy of the whole community.