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Pioneer Passes
Gathered With Saints in Hereafter on
Resurrection Day
Easter Monday morning word was passed
that Treffly Bourque, Sr. had been
called to his home in the hereafter the
evening before, Easter Sunday. Another revered ‘first settler’ gone
from the place where he had worked and worshipped for many a year. He
and his family of thirteen living children came to East Chicago in
June, 1891 soon 30 years ago. At that time but one of his children
was married, Ida was Mrs. Frank Blanchard. His aged mother
was also a member of his family at that
time. They took up their home in Walsh Avenue. At that time but two
houses stood in that street. She was the first one of that large and
happy family to go; in later years the faithful wife and mother of
his children was called and for many years he
had been a widower living most of the
time with his daughter, Mrs. Matilda DeLor Dugan of 454 Pine Street,
Hammond where he died after an illness of several weeks. He was
still in comparatively good health during the holidays. It had been
the custom of his children for years to call upon
their father on New Years day, and it
was with difficulty this year that this was accomplished by some of
them who lived in the quarantined section. The spirit of filial
devotion, however, was so great that they attempted and succeeded in
breaking the quarantine and thus paid their last New Years call on
their beloved father.
The funeral was held Wednesday morning
from St. Mary’s church where a requiem high mass was sung at 9
o‘clock, Rev, Father Lauer celebrant. Burial was made in St.
Joseph’s cemetery at Hammond. The pall bearers were Sam Jumche,
Peter Gauthier, Charles DeLor, Archie
LeMoges, Joseph French, and Silas Gagne
of South Deering, Illinois. Fife was funeral director.
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