MATTHEW LOURIE

MATTHEW LOURIE, 86, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. A.I. SMITH, IN MOUNT AYR, WHERE HE HAD MADE HIS HOME FOR THE PAST YEAR, ABOUT SEVEN O’CLOCK MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23. WHEN HE RETIRED SUNDAY EVENING HE WAS FEELING HIS USUAL SELF, BUT IN THE EARLY MORNING SUFFERED A SEVERE HEART ATTACK, FROM WHICH HE NEVER RALLIED.

MR. LOURIE WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND AND CAME TO AMERICA WHEN A YOUNG MAN OF ABOUT TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG IN NEW YORK AND UNTIL HER DEATH, ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO, THEY MADE THEIR HOME FOR MANY YEARS IN GRANT TOWNSHIP.

HE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SONS; EDWARD AND ARTHUR, OF CLEARFIELD, AND WALTER OF WATERLOO; AND THREE DAUGHTERS; ANN SMITH OF COGGON, LILLIE FETT OF KAHOKA, MO.; AND FRANCIS E. SMITH OF MOUNT AYR.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS HAD NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED AT THE TIME THE RECORD-NEWS WENT TO PRESS.