OCR Text |
Show W, C. GROUT DIES FROM PHOI Office Secretary to Colonel D. C. Jackling Expires in San Francisco. "VV. C. Grout, office secretary to Colonel Colo-nel D. C. Jackling, died yesterday of pneumonia at his home in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. J. E. Cawley, secretary to General Gen-eral Manager R. C. Gemmeli of the Utah Copper company, received the news from A. J. Maclean, office manager for Mr. Jackling in San Francisco. None of Mr. Grout's friends in this city had an inkling ink-ling that he had been ill, and the news of his sudden death is a shock to his many friends. Mr. Grout was born in Colorado and was about 33 years of age at the time of his death. He came to this city to accept ac-cept the position of office secretary to. Mr. Jackling I while the latter was making mak-ing hie headquarters here. "When Mr. Jackling rempved his office to San Francisco Fran-cisco on January 1, 1915, Mr. Grout went to that city, but has visited here several sev-eral times since, the last time having been in the latter part of May of this year, when he accompanied Colonel Jackling to New York and spent the summer there. He returned to San Francisco the middle of August. Several of Mr. Grout's friends here express ex-press the op'nion that he must have contracted con-tracted Spanish influenza that developed devel-oped into pneumonia and cau3ed his untimely un-timely death. Mr. Grout is survived by his parents, who reside in San Francisco, a brother in Chicago and a sister in San Antonio, Texas. No word has been received re-ceived as yet as to the funeral arrangements. |