LEEP, Roy

(2 notices) Eagle Valley News; Richland, OR; 23 Jan 1919 Influenza Victims Roy Leep died Jan. 16th and was buried in the Pine Valley cemetery. Eagle Valley News; Richland, OR; 30 Jan 1919 (from Pine Valley Herald, Jan. 16) ROY LEEP - PASSES At a little after 7 o'clock this morning Roy Leep breathed his last. For a day or more the end was expected hourly. The sufferer seemed to know what the result would finally be and lost hope early in the fight. He was taken ill Monday, last week, at Richland, where he had gone to work in a creamery. All the family were soon sick. Ernest Barclay went to the rescue and was taken ill, the second attack for him. The funeral was held at the Pine Valley cemetery under the joint direction of the Modern Woodmen and the Odd Fellows. Roy Leep wa one of our most exemplary young men of about 22 years of age and his end brings sadness to the whole valley. He was born and reared here. His life was clean and upright. He was dependable and honorable, a good husband and father. His good judgement and thoughtfulness of his family is shown in the fact that he carried $4000 in life insurance. He is survived by a wife, two children Lorene and Laverne, about four and two years of age respectively; a mother, one sister, Nyle, and a brother, Willis, besides many other relatives and a host of friends to mourn his loss. When it became known that he was in danger the interest in his case became intense and the telephone office was kept busy answering inquiries about him. Everything that medical science could do, that friends and lodges and the church could think of were done but to no avail; but while it seems that a life of promise was cut short beyond reason, the divine ways are read here only by candle light. In time the great plan in death will be revealed by a glare of truth; until that day we can only wait and trust.