Lyndon Dillon Price, 87, who many years ago was a fireman on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad’s Old Road and later was a farmer near Wakarusa for 27
years, died at 7 o’clock Sunday evening at his home, 1231 Garden Street, Elkhart. Death
was due to pneumonia after an illness of three days.
The son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) Price, the deceased was born Sept. 5, 1850,
in Stark county, Ohio, and first come to Elkhart 77 years ago. Surviving are his widow,
who at the time of their marriage on June 14, 1908, was Martha Growstitch of Toledo,
Ohio; two sons by a former marriage, Harry E. Price and Thomas Irving Price of Elkhart,
and two sisters, Mrs. Eli A. Smeltzer of south of Wakarusa, and Mrs. Joseph Clements of
Detroit, Mich.
Mr. Price was a member of the Christian Church at Wakarusa and of Pulaski lodge of Old
Fellows, Elkhart. He was possessor of a veterans, badge resented by Pulaski Lodge
several years ago, in certification of his membership for half a century.
The funeral service was held at the AG Zelle Chapel, Elkhart, at 2pm Wednesday in
charge of the Rev. DE Gillespie of the First Baptist Church . Burial in Grace Lawn
cemetery.
Wakarusa Tribune
Sept. 23,1937