Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Pixley, Earl J. 1907
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The Ionia Weekly Standard, Friday, July 26, 1907

Funeral services for Conductor Pixley were held at the family home, North 
Jefferson street, at two o’clock this afternoon, Rev. E. E. Branch 
officiating.  Singing was by Mrs. G. M. Phelps.  Shopmen attended in a body.  
This is one of the saddest of the many distressing cases caused by the great 
calamity.

The attendance at the funeral of Earl J. Pixley, was very large, by many 
railroad men as well as by citizens generally.  The floral offerings were 
noticeably profuse and beautiful.  

The friends present at the funeral from out of the city were: Mr. and Mrs. D. 
E. Jennings of Turner, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Meershoot of Atlanta, Iowa.  
Dr. Edward W. Martina and wife, Kansas City, Mo.—the three ladies mentioned 
being sisters of Mrs. Pixley, John Fralick and wife, he is a brother of Mrs. 
Pixley, Pontiac, Mrs. L. Pixley, mother of deceased, of Lansing, and his 
sister and husband, Geo. Outwater and wife of Parthenon, Mich.  Messrs. Walter 
Garner and Samuel Burgess of Port Huron.

A Correction:  

Editor Standard:  I desire to correct the statement appearing in the public 
press that Mr. E. E. Pixley left his family in destitute circumstances.  I 
have personally investigated the matter.  Mr. Pixley provided well for his 
family and left $2300.00 paid up insurance.  He had turned over his last pay 
check to Mrs. Pixley, but on the morning of the wreck, she had requested him 
to take the money as she did not like to be left with the sum of money in the 
house.  Mr. Pixley received a good salary, was devoted to his family and 
provided well for them.



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