Cyril Whitmer

WHITMER, EISELSTEIN, SCHNEIDER

Posted By: Lynn McCleary (email)
Date: 5/14/2014 at 08:14:44

Muscatine Journal and News Tribune, Muscatine, Iowa July 1, 1937 pg 6

Death Summons Cyril Whitmer, Cedar Resident

(Journal News Service.) Wilton – Cyril Whitmer, lifelong resident of this community who resided on a farm nine miles north of here, died at Hershey hospital at 3:05 a.m. today after an extended illness with a heart ailment and complications. The body was to be returned to the residence this afternoon.

Mr. Whitmer was born in Cedar county Dec. 7, 1888, the son of M. G. and Catherine Whitmer. He married Lillian Franklin of Wilton, on March 23, 1912.

Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Frank Eiselstein of Muscatine, and Minnie, at home; two sons, Everett and Leslie, both at home; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Whitmer, a brother, Howard, both of Cedar county; a sister, Mrs. William Schneider of Wilton, and one granddaughter.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the home in Cedar county. The Rev. Otis Moore, pastor of the South Bethel Methodist church, will be in charge. Burial will be in the Whitmer cemetery.