Another Victim of Paralysis.

 

Again death has entered our city and taken from us the head of one of our most respected families. While walking home from the postoffice with, his son, Will, last Friday evening Mr. J. L. Luellen was stricken with paralysis in front of the Rheem Lumber Company and was carried home its unconscious victim. His last words were "I'm afraid my heart will fail me" as be caught the arm of his son who prevented him from falling.  It was albout 6:40 o'clock when the fatal stroke overtook him and he never regained consciousness up to 1:50 o'clock Sunday morning, when he quietly and peacefully glided into the other world.

 

Deceased was nearly sixty years old, and leaves a devoted wife and eight children to mourn their loss, this being the first death in the family. He was a member in good standing of the A. O. U. W. and Modern Woodmen lodges and carried $2,000 life insurance in each. The funeral was conducted by the Modern Woodmen lodge at the family home on Park street Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Buckner ef the M. E. church, preached the sermon, assisted by Rev. Floyd, of the Baptist church.

 

The deceased was one of the most public spirited and progressive men of our city and has been closely identified with a number of our public enterprises. He came to Oiathe with his family from Morris county this state in 1889. During his residence here he has had much critical illness in his family but no fatalities. His splendid new home had just been completed and he was getting in a comfortable shape to enjoy life with his family. Around the Christmas hearth only a few evenings before his death he was joval and feeling unusually well, but on the day following he remarked to a friend that he would not spend another Xmas here and has repeatedly stated that he would not live long. Two of his boys D. F.  Luellen, of Beaumont, Texas, and  L. W. Luellen of Boston, were not permitted to be present at the funeral. A sister also, Mrs. Mary Denham of Toledo, Ohio, was unable to attend. It is needless for us to state that the bereaved family have the sympathy of all who know them.

 

Olathe News

January 1, 1903

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