CHARLES FITCH DIES SUDDENLY
SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK ON TUESDAY MORNING. FUNERAL TODAY.
Charles Fitch died very suddenly at Shelby Tuesday morning about 11 o'clock. He was plowing in [a] field near the Cal Jones place, with whom he made his home. The team ran away and went to the Jones house. Mr. Fitch went and got the team and returned to the field to work. He had only been working a short time when Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Peterson saw him lying on the ground and a part of his clothing was caught on the plow. They summoned another neighbor and went to his assistance. He gasped a couple of times after they arrived but never regained consciousness. A doctor was summoned but he was dead when the doctor arrived. He has been afflicted with heart trouble for a long time and it is thought that the exertion of going after the team brought on another attack and he succumbed from the effects of the over exertion.
Deputy Coroner William Sheets was called and his verdict was death from heart trouble.
Charles Fitch was a man whom every one had a good word for. For the past nine years he has been driving the school bus from Shelby to Lowell, and he was a faithful and careful driver and the parents always felt that their children were entirely safe in his charge. The scholars will miss him very much from making his usual daily trips to and from school.
Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) at 10 a.m. at Shelby and the remains will be taken to Chicago for burial beside his wife in Rose Hill cemetery. The funeral services will be in charge of Colfax Masonic lodge of Lowell, of which he was a member.