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COLLIN CHRONICLES Vol 31 No 3:2010-2011 PAGE 79
William E. RUCKER Jr.
WILLIE RUCKER DIED AT 11:30 LAST NIGHT
He Had Given Up Business to Serve in the United States Navy
Relatives in McKinney received this morning a telegram conveying the sad news of the death of
Willie Rucker, which occurred in the Military Hospital at the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago
last (Sunday) night at 11:30 o'clock.
His father, Dr. W. E. Rucker, was at his bedside at the time of his death. The remains will be
shipped immediately to McKinney for burial.
A more extended report of the death of this former young McKinney business man will be given by
this paper in the next issue.
The deceased had been ill of pneumonia for several days. He left McKinney on December 15, and
volunteered his services in the United States Navy.
The entire city is bowed in heartfelt sympathy with the parents and young wife and babe of the
deceased in the crushing bereavement that has so suddenly befallen them.
McKinney Daily Courier Gazette, 24 December 1917, page 1, col. 5.
1918
John DeWitt GREER
COLLIN SOLDIER DIED IN VIRGINIA
Capt. And Mrs. J. L. Greer of McKinney have received the sad news of the death of their
nephew, DeWitt Greer which occurred in a military hospital at Newport News, Virginia, Wednesday,
after only a few days suffering from meningitis. The information received by the McKinney relatives was
brief, no details having been given.
The remains will be immediately shipped to Anna, the former home of young Greer and are
expected to arrive Saturday evening. Burial will take place Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Van
Alstyne cemetery. Shipment of the corpse was delayed to obtain a specially constructed casket to
insure against the possibility of contagion of the disease from which his death resulted.
DeWitt Greer was the eldest of three sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Greer of Anna in the service of
the United States army. He was about thirty years of age and was in the aviation corps. His company
only recently departed for France and it is understood that the illness of the deceased prevented him
from joining them on the voyage across the sea to fight for his country.
The other two sons of John Greer now in the service of the United States army are Bryan and
Jim Greer. The eldest brother in the family, Joe Greer, has for a number of years been in the drug
business in Anna. Upon receiving the news of the illness of his brother he left last Saturday for Newport
News and was with the brother at the time of his death.
Thus another young patriot from Collin county has breathed his last while in the service of his
country. He was an excellent young man, a boy from one of Collin's most highly esteemed families andCOLLIN CHRONICLES
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