Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Barker, Frank April 14, 1907
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Lake Odessa Wave - Friday  April 26, 1907

BROUGHT HOME FOR BURIAL

Remains Of Frank Barker Arrived Monday Morning.
Funeral held Tuesday. Largely Attended Died in Hotel in Aberdeen, Wash.

The remains of Frank Barker, age 24, whose death at Aberdeen, Washington, was 
mentioned in last week's Wave, arrived here Monday morning coming by express and  
having ben on the way since the Tuesday night before. The body was turned over 
by Expressman Keith to Undertaker Weed who put it in readiness to the old home, 
in West Odessa. The funeral was held Tuesday at the methodist church here 
conducted by Dr. Flint of Clarksville and the burial was made in Lakeside 
cemetery.

The cause of his death was given as spinal meningitis. He had not been feeling 
at all well the winter through but being of an uncomplaining nature his ailments 
had  not been much noticed. With the approach of spring sunshine he apparently 
improved in health and at the time of his starting west seemed to be much like 
himself again. He was about ready to go to Alaska where Mr. Ralph Peer had a job 
in waiting for him, when he was take half sick again. He did not five up and go 
to bed at the hotel where he was staying until on Saturday the day before his 
death. Both the physician who treated him and the undertaker who prepared the 
body for shipment here were formerly from near here in Michigan, one in 
Charlotte, and they gave him every possible help and attention. The body arrived 
here in good shape. The express charges alone of sending a body from the coast 
here are twice that of the regular passenger fare or $132.40 in this case.


The young men who acted as pall bearers were Clarence Marvin, Henry
Norcutt, Earl Hager, Bert Long, Roy Eldried and Ray Lenhart, and honorary 
bearers were Misses Vertie Catt, Mable Blough, Florence Lepard and Arvilla Bower 
and the Mrs. Nora Dell-Tasker and Mrs. Erma Darby-Wickham.


Additional Comments:
Lakeside Cem.#3-306


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