John F. Duke |
| Posted 2019-01-04 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Thursday, January 24, 1935, page 1.6 City Mourns Useful Citizen Hotel Owner Who Helped Blaze Trails in Southwest Will be Buried On Saturday Morning Prescott today felt deeply the loss of one of the staunchest, most beloved citizens, John Duke, owner and operator of the Hotel St. Michael, national color bearing for life of the United Indian War Veterans, and pioneer dairyman and cattle raiser. He passed peacefully to the Great Beyond in his hotel room at 6:10 o'clock last night in his 89th year. With his at the end were his daughter, Miss Mary M. Duke, who had been managing the hotel the last few years, and Thomas Buezynski, World war veteran, who lives at the hotel. Only yesterday he told a friend he had suffered no pain and aches, his appetite was good, but he was aware of growing weaker day by day. Mr. Duke had been in failing health for more than a year yet maintained an acute interest in all that went on. Upon arrival in the city today from Los Angeles of two other daughters, Mrs. Fern Duke Clancy and Miss Elsie Duke, it was decided that high requiem mass would be said in Sacred Heart Catholic church at 9 o'clock Saturday morning, interment to follow in the Odd Fellows cemetery. The Lest Ruffner Funeral Home is in charge. |
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