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Leroy Phillip Duff

17 Apr 1921 – 12 Sep 1923

Birth	17 Apr 1921
Death	12 Sep 1923
Cemetery	Lone Tree Cemetery Custer County , Nebraska , USA
Added by	Terry Wilmoth -Jepsen on 18 Jul 2011
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58617844

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FALLS IN WATER HOLE AND IS DROWNED –Sargent Mother Finds Lifeless Body of Her Baby – Sargent Leader: This (Friday) afternoon the two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Duff drowned in a water hole about two hundred yards south of their home which is two miles and a half east of Sargent. The particulars given us are that Mr. Duff was coming to town and bringing with him two of the little girls to see the doctor. A third little girl was crying because she couldn't go along and the mother took her into the house to soothe her. As she as doing this, two year old Roy slipped away, going down the road to follow his father's auto most likely. When he came to the water hole near the road he probably slipped and fell head foremost into it and strangled at once. The mother missed the little fellow in a short time and started down the road to hunt him. When she reached the water hole she found the dog barking excitedly. She waded in but could not get any trace of the child. Then she went out to the gate nearly a half mile from the house. Finding no sight of the child she started to return home and when she reached the water hole there was the body floating on the water. She snatched the body from the water and did all she could to resuscitate her child but to no avail. Taking up the other two children she walked to the home of Reed Dennison a mile and a half away to phone for Dr. Taylor who tells us that he hurried but it was too late to revive the child. He says he feels confident that the child was beyond help when the mother found it floating. The water hole is seven or eight feet wide, about seventy-five feet long and about knee deep. Wolbach Messenger, Wolbach, Nebraska, Thursday, September 20, 1923 obit courtesy of Linda Berney (#47343179

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