The Sterling Daily Gazette, Sterling, Illinois
June 20, 1950 - Tuesday, pg. 2, col. 2

Dr. S. B. LaDue, Former Prophetstown Dentist, Passes in Wisconsin

PROPHETSTOWN -- Dr. S. B. LaDue, 56, of Chillicothe, a former Prophetstown dentist, passed away Sunday afternoon in a hospital at Tomahawk, Wis., where he was spending the summer months. Mr. LaDue suffered a heart attack Friday and was taken to the hospital Saturday. Funeral arrangements are pending the arrival of the body at Chillicothe.

Mr. LaDue, the son of F. M. LaDue and Harriett Griffin LaDue, was born May 31, 1894 at Yorktown attending schools in that vicinity. He also attended the Dixon collage and a dental school in Chicago. Sept. 11, 1917 he married Mildred Soliday of Hooppole.

For two years following his marriage he practiced in Prophetstown and then entered World War I and he then practiced again for two years before going to Chillicothe where he had been for 28 years.

Surviving are his wife, one son Stanley, and one brother Lewis LaDue of Prophetstown. His parents and one sister preceded him in death.