The following article, hand dated July 25, 1940, was found in the Lowell Public Library clippings file (LH--Vital Statistics, vol. 3, page 97):
August Westberg, who formerly resided in Lowell with his family, passed away at his home in Chicago, Sunday at 4 p.m. Funeral services, in charge of Rev. H.F. Bulger, pastor of the Lowell Church of Christ, held at the Weaver Funeral Home Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Interment in the Lowell cemetery in charge of Weaver & Son.
[NOTE: The date hand written on this article gives the year 1940, but his wife's obituary indicates that he died in 1938.]