Francis Marion "Frank" Coulter (1874-1944)

COULTER, LOUGHRAN, LEWIS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/2/2014 at 20:44:54

From Ames Milepost April 1944

FRANK COULTER

Frank Marion Coulter, 617 Clark avenue, passed away at his home Saturday morning, April 8, at 7:50, from coronary thrombosis. Mr. Coulter has been ill since late November.

Mr. Coulter has made his home in Ames since 1893, when he entered Iowa State college. As a small boy, he made his home in Harlan, Iowa. He was born June 8, 1874, at Princeton, Ill. Mr. Coulter taught school for five years and served in Railway Postal Service for 37 years retiring in June 1936.

Until the last two years he had been active in the Masons, Eastern Star and White Shrine. He served the Congregational church as a member of the Board of Deacons and was treasurer up to the first of this year.

He was marred to Jennie E. Loughran in 1900, who passed away in December of 1932. On June 27, 1934, he married Elizabeth Lewis in the First Methodist Church in Des Moines.

Funeral services were held Monday at 3 p. m. in the First Congregational church with Rev. A. R. McLaughlin of Peoria, Ill., in charge, assisted by Rev. W. Murray Allan, pastor of the First Congregational church. Burial was in the Ames cemetery.

Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Elizabeth Ann. Two sons, Edmund, who died in 1911 and Frank Jr., who died in 1918 at Camp Dodge, preceded their father in death.