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28 Nov 1912
Funeral of Old-Time Contractor, Who Died in Grief for Wife, To-Day
LAWRENCE LYNCH
Five grandsons will be pallbearers at the funeral of Lawrence Lynch, 82year sold, retired farmer and contractor 8:30 a.m. today, from the home, 1800 Cora avenue, to the Catholic Church of the Visitation. Evans and Taylor avenues, where a high mass of requiem will be celebrated. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The pallbearers’ are Clarence Matthew, William F., James and Harry O’Donnell.
Lynch was a native of Ireland, but came to St. Louis sixty years ago and worked as a plasterer. When the Civil war broke out he entered the army and after the war returned to St. Louis and re-entered the plastering trade. Later he purchased a far near New Haven, M.., where he lived thirty years and conducted a large contracting business and returned to St Louis to live after he retired, ten years ago.
His wife, Mrs. Mary O’Reilly lynch, to whom he had been married for fifty-six years, died five months ago at the age of 81, and grief over the loss of her companionship is believed by the family to have hastened his death, which as at 7:05 a. m. Thursday. He is survived by two sons, Lawrence F. and Charles H. Lynch: five daughters, Mrs. H. C. O’Donnell, Mrs. Andrew Scully, Mrs. Patrick J. Bradley, Miss Elizabeth B. and Miss Annie T. Lynch, and by ten grandchildren.
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