Louis Angelo

ANGELO

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/5/2014 at 09:42:18

DIES WHILE PICNICKING AT CAMP NEAR LECLAIRE WITH OVER 50 FRIENDS

Louis Angelo, well known Davenporter and for over 30 years an employe of the John Kosgard meat market at 115 West Second street, passed away while he was picnicking with over 50 friends at a camp near LeClaire at 7:30 o'clock last night.

Angelo has been suffering for a number of years with heart trouble and asthma and it is believed that the fumes from the tile works were the cause of his death. A doctor was summoned immediately but he passed away before medical assistance arrived.

According to several members of the party, Angelo had driven the Kosgard care to the picnic and on arriving there he said that he felt ill. While lying under a tree he was fanned by Mrs. Kosgard, who believed that the illness was only temporary and not dangerous.

"I am going to die," Angelo is said to have told friends who were seated about him. Due to the fact that his condition at that time did not seem serious, his friends thought that he was jesting.

Angelo had been making his home with the Kosgards since he came here from Bulgaria over 15 years ago. He had made many friends while here and was employed at the Kosgard market as a sausage maker and meat cutter.

There are no survivors. A few days before his death he told friends that he had no relatives in this country or in Bulgaria.

Had Angelo lived he would have been 42 years old today. He was born in Bulgaria in 1880 and came directly from Bulgaria to Davenport in 1908.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Stapleton funeral parlors. Burial will be made in St. Marguerite's cemetery.

Source: Davenport Democrat and Leader; Davenport, Ia.,27 Jul 1923.