Pages

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Ezra Hunsucker, 27, Dies of Tuberculosis, Nov. 27, 1922

Funeral Tomorrow of Ezra Hunsucker

The funeral of Mr. Ezra Augustus Hunsucker, whose death occurred at Pasadena, Ca., November 20, will be held from St. John’s Reformed church, near Conover, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. Walter W. Rove will conduct the service.

The body arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Hunsucker, his parents, in Conover last night.

Mr. Hunsucker was born March 8, 1895, and was 27 years of age. He graduated at Lenoir College in 1916 And was principal of the North school, Hickory, the following year. He volunteered for war service and was sent overseas, where he did his part in the war.

Discharged in 1919, he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the fall of 1919, and gave up his studies in March, 1920, because of failing health. Mr. Hunsucker took treatment in western North Carolina and later went to Pasadena. He is survived by his parents, two brothers, three sisters, and his grandmother, Mrs. Noah Rowe of Conover.

Mr. Hunsucker, who joined the Reformed church at an early age, developed into a splendid young man. He was handsome and honorable and was a fine athlete. As a baseball player at Lenoir College he made a big reputation as a batter. In Hickory, where he taught for a year prior to the war, Mr. Hunsucker was popular with the pupils and had a bright future before him when tuberculosis, which he probably contracted overseas, cut is life short.

From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Monday, Nov. 27, 1922

No comments:

Post a Comment