There were few men better known in the county than Mr. Strang. He numbered his friends by the thousand. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning and were attended by an exceptionally large number of relatives and friends. The supervisors, the city and county officials attended in a body. Suddenly Lake County friends of Herbert Strang, a son of former postmaster Thomas Strang, of Libertyville and late of Wadsworth will be surprised to hear that he dropped dead suddenly at his home in Highland Park Thursday evening.
Heart trouble is believed to have been the cause.
Mr. Strang was 40 years old and had been employed as conductor on the electric line for the past twenty years. He was one of the oldest men in service on the road. He had worked all day and it was nine o'clock when he reached his home. He picked up the paper and made the remark to his wife that he had a strange pain his system. Shortly afterwards he was obliged to go to bed and at eleven o'clock he had succumbed.