The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic-Body of Epidemic Victim

From: Oakland Tribune, 29 September 1918, Page 48, Column 4

BODY OF EPIDEMIC VICTIM TO ARRIVE

BERKELEY, Sept. 28- The body of Harold Leroy Higgins, 24 years old, victim of the Spanish influenza, will arrive at his home in this city on Monday evening, according to the advices received today by Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Higgins, 1641 Fairview street, parents of the youth.

Young Higgins, who was a member of the hospital corps in the naval reserves, died on Tuesdaym barely a week after he had arrived in New York from Mare Island, where he received his training. He was assigned to duty at a New York hospital, where he contracted the disease, which developed into pneumonia.

Funeral services for Higgins will be conducted at 3:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon from Oakland undertaking parlors. If quarantined conditions permit pallbearers will be chosen among the youth's former comrades at Mare Island in the hospital corps.

Higgins was engaged to be married to Miss Mary L. Roberts of Oakland, their engagement having been announced prior to his departure east. He was a native of South Dakota, and had made his home in Berkeley fo the last eleven years. At the time of his enlistment he was associated with the Owl Drug Co. in Stockton. Surviving Higgins are his parents, and three sisters, Mrs. Mildred Reed and the Misses Agnes and Marie Higgins.