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Tracy - Florizell

Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, Oct 18, 1929

 
The following tribute from the Attica Ledger-Tribune will be  read with interest by many of our older readers. The news  conveying the intelligence that Florizell Tracy, superintendent  of the Ledger-Tribune printing plant had passed away in the  Lutheran hospital at St. Louis, came as a shock and has spread  sadness throughout the entire community. So far as earthly  records will show, he has passed beyond the precipice which  divides the known from the unknown world, but such record is only  for the information of future generations. In the hearts and  minds of the people living in this community, he still lives,  because his work is enduring; his kindly counsel and advice, his  genuine sympathy and help which have always been extended to  those in sorrow and his optomistic views of life, will live as  long as his friends live. Those who knew Zell Tracy, and enjoyed  his friendship, need no obituary to acquaint them with his fine  qualities. For many years assistant editor of this paper, Mr.  Tracy was not only a skilled and faithful workman, but an  influence for good on all those with whom he came in contact. He  was, in truth, an institutuion. A man of clean life, high ideals  and sensitive conscience, he was ever loyal to duty, believing as  he firmly did that the call of duty was the call of God. One  could not think of him as slighting a task as ever doing anything  but his best. He was one of the cheeriest of souls, the possessor  of a fine and true sense of humor, hopeful and optomistic and the  best of company. He would be the last to wish any obtruding of  his religious life on the public, but no notice of him would even  approach adequacy which did not include some reference to his  inner life. That he was a man of unquestioning faith all who  really knew him will testify. Mr. Tracy was a Christian, not  merely by profession, but in his daily life. He was always  helping other people. For years he had charge of this paper's  Good Fellowship fund as treas. and worked hard and diligently for  its success and that the worthy were well cared for and likewise  his work as a member of the Board of Childrens' Guardians of  Fountain Co. in which he took a great interest....Florizell  Tracy, son of Joseph and Maria Tracy was born at Eaton, Ohio Dec  2, 1859. His mother died when he was two years old and shortly  after the father moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana where Zell grew  to manhood. He then moved to Waveland where in 1881 and with  Charles Crowder published the Waveland Call. Mr. Tracy was  married in Waveland in 1882 to Miss Elizabeth Foley and in 1883  moved to Wabash Indiana where he worked at the printing business  until 1885 when they moved to Paris, Ill where Mr. Tracy became  foreman of the Paris Beacon, a position he held until 1916 when  they moved to Attica, Mr. Tracy having acquired the JC Hegler  Print Shop. In the fall of 1917 Mr. Tracy sold the shop to the  writer and took over the formanship of Ledger and Tribune. his  educ. was received in schools of Montgomery Co. He was a devout  member of the Methodist Church and was zealous in its welfare.  Fraternally he was a member of the IOOF [Independent Order of Odd Fellows]  and the Modern Woodman.  He departed this life Wed. eve Oct 9 at the Lutheran Hospital in  St. Louis, Mo. He is survived by his wife and 4 children, namely  Mrs. James B. Curry St. Louis; Mrs. Frank Baker, Attica; Mrs.  V.E. Mullins Shelbyville, Ill; and paul h of Urbana Ill and  several grandchildren, one half sister, Mrs. EE Foley Cleveland,  Oh......
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