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Senior Surgeon, but all this unfortunately proved of no avail. The cruel hand of Death ultimately triumphed and Lallubhai succumbed to his mortal illness on 4th December 1912. .
The funeral ceremony of the deceased was attended by a host of friends and sympathisers. Condolence letters and telegrams from highly eminent personages poured in very large nun. bers. The Mahajan of Umarala, the leading citizens of Botad, Sihor and Bhavnagar, all the officiale of the State as well as Mr. Ranchhoddas V. Patwari ( Dewan of Gondal ), Sheth Jamnanadas Bhagubhai of Ahmedabad and others were good enough to personally call upon the family and to express their sorrow for the sad bereavement. ** Lallubhai's marriage had taken place in 1894. He died leaving behind him his aged parents, widow, son and daughter tó inourn his loss. “But it is an additional instance of the cruel irony of fate that the only son of the deceased who was the chief source of main consolation to the family, after his sad death, surdemily