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Mrs. B. J. Leeper (sic) Funeral services for Mrs. W. J. Leeper were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Short-Murray chapel, the Rev. Jackson C. Oglesby, pastor of the Waples Memorial church officiating, with interment at Fairview. Mrs. Leeper died at her home 1123 W. Sears Friday night following an illness of nearly a year. Her husband died in 1938. The couple married at Pottsboro in 1892, where Mr. Leeper, as a young man started his career in the lumber business. He was the chief figure in establishing the Lingo-Leeper Lumber Company, an organization contemporaneous with the founding of Denison. Mrs. Leeper was active in civic affairs and in the first world War was in charge of many war activities. Her only child, Capt. Dan C. Leeper, died in service in the first war. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Chiles, Mrs. Leeper was born Nov. 16, 1871, and received her first schooling at Pottsboro, later attending St. Xavier's Academy here. Surviving Mrs. Leeper are one daughter, Mrs. J. D. Bond, Denison, whose husband is an army lieutenant in overseas service; a brother, Jim Chiles, Pottsboro; four sisters, Mrs. A. G. McAdams, Mrs. Eugenia Mays and Miss Amy Chiles, Dallas and Mrs. Lillian Hoard, Sherman, and two grandsons, Dickie and David Bond, Denison.    Capt. Dan C. Leeper 29 October 1894 - 2 November 1918 Co. B. 329th. Inf. 90th Div. Died from Wounds Received in Action in the Battle of the Argonne France September 8, 1921 REMAINS OF DENISON WAR HEROES REST IN NATIVE LAND FUNERALS OF CAPTAINS ELLIS AND LEEPER HELD The remains of two of Denison's illustrious war heroes, after three years, are at last at rest in their native land. With a soft Indian summer breeze whispering a benediction and the hush of a fading day a prayer, the body of Captain J. G. Ellis, "Killed in action in France, July 2nd, 1918 was buried in Fairview cemetery Wednesday evening. Rev. J. S. Hodges, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, read a short scriptural text and pronounced a short prayer at the grave after which the Elk burial ceremony was read. P. J. Brennan, grand treasurer of the Elks in a short and eloquent eulogy paid tribute to the worth of the young Denisonian who had "given his life for his friends." The remains of Captain Ellis with that of Captain Dan C. Leeper arrive in Denison Wednesday afternoon. The flag draped casket was taken at once to the cemetery and the simple burial ceremony followed. The funeral of Captain Leeper was Thursday morning. A crowd of several hundred persons, which packed the station platform, and overflowed onto Main street met the T. and P. train. Major R. S. Kimball, a former Denisonian and a companion to Captain Leeper and Ellis accompanied the bodies from Little Rock, Arkansas. In the silent through gathered at the station were several members of the Ambulance Company 27, "Denison's Own Outfit" and the organization of which Captain Ellis was commander at the time he was killed. Buddies in life, with the din of war around them the air whistling with death, they were also buddies in life, with the khaki replaced by the mufti of civilian life. There were also several in the crowd who had served with Captain Leeper, one of whom had watched him leap to the attack at the zero hour on that fateful morning of November 2, to meet a hero's death in the tortured Argonne at the head of his company. Scores had known the young men, as boys and men of Denison, and had watched them leave in those frenzied days of 1917, when red war rode over the land marshallings the forces for the "first American crusade." The funeral of Captain Leeper was held this morning from the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Leeper, 1123 West Sears street. The Rev. C. W. Hearon, pastor of the Waples Memorial church, pronounced a beautiful eulogy over the body. At the grave the Methodist burial ceremony was read. A large crowd attended the funeral ceremonies at the home and followed the cortege to the cemetery. The floral offerings at both the Ellis and Leeper funerals were many and beautiful.
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