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JOSEPH SWICK
JOE SWICK DIES SUDDENLY
Taken Ill With Pneumonia and Dies in Chicago Hospital
[Welland Telegraph, 27 January 1911]
After being ill only two days with pneumonia, Joseph Swick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dell Swick of Welland, died in a Chicago hospital on Monday evening. Every effort was made to save his life, but it was impossible.
The late Mr. Swick had left Welland only a short time ago to go on the stage in Chicago as a vaudeville actor. He was well-known as the heaviest man in Welland. The news of his death will be received with general regret by many friends here. “Joe,” as he was commonly called, was born in Wainfleet, and was twenty-five years old. He is survived by a brother and sorrowing parents. Everyone who knew Joe can testify to his good qualities. He was a likable lad who made many friends who are now united in grief at his untimely end and in sympathy to his bereaved relatives.
A pathetic circumstance was that he had set out in company with Jimmy Kilty to take a place on the vaudeville stage, but death overtook him before he made his first public appearance.
The funeral will be held from his late home in Welland on Sunday at one p.m. and will be conducted by L.O.L., No. 1234, members of which order are asked to meet at the lodge rooms at 12.30.
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