File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Page by Beth Rengers Talken, 21 September 1998.  Link change or update: 21 Sep 1998

Obituary for Leland L. Chesley (dates unknown)
No. 025 - Uncited clippings from the "Neva Murphy Hubbard Collection" of Beth Rengers Talken, 1998.

Cary, Ill., June 20 - Leland L. CHESLEY, former St. Louis newspaper man, was found dead in his automobile near his home here last night.

Sheriff's deputies said the body was clad in pajamas. The cause of death was not immediately determined. Mrs. CHESLEY told authorities her husband, 56 years old, had been ill for several weeks.

CHESLEY formerly worked as a reporter for the old St. Louis Star-Times and as a news editor at St. Louis radio station KWK. He left KWK in 1945. He later became assistant city editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, and state editor of Chicago's American. [Special to the Post-Dispatch]

Note regarding clippings from the "Neva Murphy Hubbard Collection":  Neva Murphy Hubbard (1886-1971) lived all of her life in Lincoln County, MO.  She collected a large file of clippings of Lincoln County residents. The majority of the clippings were without citation. Beth Rengers Talken, beneficiary of the collection, has transcribed them for inclusion in our Lincoln County Heritage Records. 

File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Page by Beth Rengers Talken, 21 September 1998.  Link change or update: 21 Sep 1998

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