Donations for Vitkauskas' Funeral and Family
Naujienos, Apr. 20, 1916
A total of $178.30 was donated by Lithuanians to help pay the funeral expenses and aid the family of Zigmas Vitkauskas, popular Lithuanian writer who died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-six, on April 9, 1916. He was formerly the publisher and editor of the Laisvoji Mintis (Free Thought) and was a member of the editorial staff of the Lietuva (Lithuania). [List of donors omitted in translation.] Mr. Vitkauskas resided at 2614 Montgomery Avenue. He was buried on Thursday morning, April 13, in the Lithuanian National Cemetery. He is survived by a wife and a two-year old son.
