Justin Kelleher 1898-1918

KELLEHER

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/16/2009 at 17:51:16

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson co.), Iowa, 17 October 1918.

ANOTHER YOUTH OF GREAT PROMISE DIES
Justin Kelleher, the eldest of the family of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelleher of 1039 east Burlington street died at noon today at the university hospital after a nine day fight with pneumonia. Worn out with the week's attack of influenza which preceded this he was unable to fight of the treacherous malady which followed.

He was twenty years old last June and here again death has taken away a youth of the greatest promise. He was a graduate of the Iowa City high school where he had shown the most brilliant talents and was scheduled for sophomore work in the engineering school. Under such circumstances death seems a crushing blow indeed.

He leaves his sadly stricken parents, four sisters, Mary, Helen, Florence, and Dorothy, and a brother, Paul. Countless friends offer these left to mourn their sincerest sympathy.

Justin Kelleher was one of the half dozen men who ranked highest in the freshman class last year and who were allowed to do part of the sophomore work in their freshman year in recognition of their unusual scholarship.