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GEORGE RENWICKHAD HURRIED TO SCHOOL TOiI8ADJUST HEATERWEST SCHOOL JANITORwCittern Well Known Here Por Over 40 Tears Met Sudden. Death While Engaged in His Usual Doties. ' —Puneral This Wednesday Afternoon*tEearifct4A great shock to his. family and friends was the death of George Benwick, an old-time resident of Sycamore, who expired in an automobile on his way from the West school, where he was * employed as janitor, to his. home on North Cross street at about the noon hour^ on Monday.Mr. Ben wick was in the habit of going^ to his dinner early anlt;f returning to tthl school about 12 o'clock when the teachers left for dinner, and during their absence the janitor lookedafter the few* children that remained‘ • ■ *over the noon hdur and cared for the building. Monday while he was at dinner a neighbor came in and said* he had been- telephoned for * to come to the school: that there was trouble with the heating apparatus. He hurried afoot to the school. It developed later that a steam guage ? had opened and was. lettings' steam from the heater out into the basement, and that there was an electric light turned on, which illuminated the steam so that the teach-. •- -ers thought there was some evidence of fire.. Mr. Peterson,, the superintendent, who resides in that neighborhood arrived at the school at about the time of the arrival. of Mr. Benwick, who soon stopped the leaking ■ steam. He remarked that he did ot feel well, the a fainted, and Dr. Evans was. sent for. Mr. Benwick was,.able to put on hia rubbers and deliberately prepared tp go home with the two men. He got into the automobile with little assistance. They had driven, in the automobile nearly to,, iis home when the doctor saw • that Benwick was dead. The cause of his death is believed to have been heart-disease. - ,George Benwick was 69 years of age, and ihd resided in Sycamore and vicinityndarly all his years; He was an e±pert with horses, and tor, many years? had been employed in livery stables/ For the last four years' he had been employed as janitor In the Sycamore schools; He was not in robust health and was unable to do heavy work, but was always depend* able and willing to do what he could.Several years ago he was married to Mrs. Beingard, who survives with her three children by... a. former marriage.He also leaves a brother Walter Benwick, a resident oif Sycamore.; .The funeral services will be held at the home 144 North Cross street this Wednesday at i:30 o'clock p. m., at the Methodist church at 2 p. m., andthat interment will be in Ohio Grove* *cemetery.
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Sycamore True Republican
Sycamore, Illinois, US
Wed, Nov 15, 1922
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