Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-11 | Page 12 | Fraternities to Join Army in Tribute

FRATERNITIES TO JOIN W!JTIUTE K. of C. and Elks to Attend Lieutenant W. T. Gleason Funeral Tomorrow. Salt LaJce members of two fraternities with which he had been identified, the Knights of Columbus and the Elks, will join representatives of the array in paying pay-ing tribute at the funeral tomorrow of LJeu tenant 'William T. Gleason, Forty-third Forty-third infantry, medical detachment. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Gleason died unexpectedly of heart trouble at the Denver & Rio Grande railway station late Thursday night upon his arrival from New Orleans. A military eeoort will accompany the body from the Qualtrough-Allcott chapel shortly after 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, after-noon, to the cathedral, where the services will begin at 2 o'clock- An officer in charge of a detachment of the Twentieth Twen-tieth infantry, and officers and men representing rep-resenting the medical corps at the fort will be present, pall bearers will be selected se-lected from officers of the medical corps- A special detail will act as guard of honor from the cathedral, where the services ser-vices will he conducted by the Kev. Father M. F. Sheehan, to Calvary ceme-terv. ceme-terv. The salute over the grave will be fired by men of the Twentieth Infantry. Both the Elks and Knights of Columbus will be in attendance. lieutenant Gleason suffered an attack of heart trouble while on his way to Salt Lake from New Orleans, where the first battalion of his regiment is stationed, sta-tioned, and passed two days at a Denver Den-ver hospital. He was born in Michigan, January 8, 1879. He had practiced surgery sur-gery and medicine several years at Pa.lt i,ake before going to Ely, Kev.. to make his home. His widow and little son were waiting in Salt Lake his arriva.1 from the south.