Lawrence Mercer

Private funeral services for Lawrence Mercer, 35, who died Monday at the home of his brother, John, at 1932 South Tenth street, were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. from the residence. Burial was in Forest City cemetery at Gretna.

Mr. Mercer died of black small-pox, after having been ill for nine days. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Hanna Mercer, brothers John and James, and sister, Mrs. Margaret Dillion of Omaha, and Mrs. Francis Tracy of Buvonica, Colo.

From the Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), dated June 30, 1926