Ainsworth, Lucian Lewis 1901 - 1917

AINSWORTH

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 11/29/2013 at 23:16:36

Elgin Echo, Thur., 14 June 1917.

Lucian Lewis Ainsworth, aged 16, died at 10:30 Saturday forenoon, June 9, at his home in Mason City, after an illness of five days from cerebral meningitis. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ainsworth. Born in Elgin, April 11, 1901, he had with his parents lived successively in Elgin, West Union, Decorah, and in Mason City for the past 11 years. He is survived by his parents and three sisters and two brothers - Miss Margaret, Miss Gretchen, Maurice, Eleanor and Joe.

The remains were brought to West Union Monday and brief services were conducted by Rev. Fr. H. F. Roney at the grave, after which interment was made in the West Union cemetery. Relatives who came accompanying the body and who were guests at the W. J. Ainsworth home were the boy's father, Lester Ainsworth, and brother and sisters, Maurice and Misses Margaret and Gretchen.

Lucian L. Ainsworth, grandson and namesake of an eminent West Union citizen, now deceased, was a boy of unusual brilliance of intellect and force of character. Keenly apt in all that had to do with mechanics, he was relied upon as a machinery expert in the office of the Mason City Globe-Gazette, where he had been employed for some time past. He was a youth of foresight and self-denial, whose plans that he carried out with unflagging determination were and had been for years past devoted to the welfare of his family and especially marked by thoughtfulness for his mother. Though his early death ends a life of rare promise, its riches were so far disclosed as to leave a very precious memory.- Argo-Gazette.

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