Wren and Leroy Lewis (1918)

LEWIS

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/14/2009 at 05:24:50

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 18 October 1918.

DEATH TAKES TWO IN SAME FAMILY
Wren Lewis and Son Leroy Die Only Few Hours Apart

That the dread influenza is no respector of persons was again proven yesterday when Wren Lewis, a prosperous farmer whose home is four miles southwest of Oxford in this county, on the county line died from influenza and pneumonia early in the morning and his 20 year old son who had been suffering from the same disease, died but a few hours later, at 10:30 of the same day.

This double sorrow visiting the Lewis family is deeply regretted by the many friends of the family in that community.

A short private service will be held at the family home Saturday morning and the remains will be buried in a cemetery near there.