Frank Parmeter

PARMETER, ROBERTS, GAMBEL

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Date: 1/12/2019 at 16:52:20

Columbus Gazette, October 17, 1935

Frank Parmeter, 83, retired engineer of the C.R.I. & P., with 54 years’ service, died at his home in Columbus Junction at 3 p.m. Monday, following more than one year's illness. He had lived in Columbus Junction for the past six years.

Funeral services were held at the home at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday. Rev. W.H. Parker, Cotter, officiated. Burial was in the Columbus City cemetery.

Mr. Parmeter was born in Indiana, July 24, 1852, and was married to Miss Elizabeth Roberts at Mt. Pleasant in 1871. She preceded him in death in 1876. He was married to Miss Margaret Gambel, Columbus Junction, at that place in 1884. The couple lived in Cedar Rapids for 45 years.

He is survived by his wife and one son, Frank, Panama, and three grandchildren. A son, Jesse, preceded him in death in 1930. He was a member of Masonic lodges and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Cedar Rapids.