Frank Davis Bamford (1885-1913)

BAMFORD, MCLAIN, TICHENOR, ROSS, HUBERT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/12/2016 at 16:28:41

From Nevada Representative June 17, 1913 on the page captioned:

COLO REPRESENTATIVE

Frank D. Bamford.

From the Red Oak Sun: Frank D. Bamford, one of Red Oak's most highly respected young men, died at the Red Oak hospital about 1:30 o'clock Saturday morning June 7, from general peritonitis. He had been ill only since the preceding Monday, and although seriously sick his condition was not considered critical until Thursday, when symptoms indicated that a surgical operation was necessary. He was hurried to the hospital, where the operation was immediately performed, but too late.

Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the home, 11 Maple st. Rev. J. B. Meloy, of the United Evangelical church, being assisted in the services by Rev. J. G. Walz, presiding elder, from Des Moines, Rev. Wm. Murchie of Red Oak, Rev. E. H. Heberly and Rev. G. L. Springer of Oakland, and Rev. J. Young of McClelland.

There was a large attendance of friends at the service, the Evangelical Sunday school attending in a body. Burial was in Red Oak cemetery. In respect to the memory of the deceased all the Red Oak banks remained closed during the hour of the funeral.

Those who came from a distance in response to news of his illness or later to attend the funeral included Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Bamford and son, Hubert, and Miss Alice Eccleston, from Waterloo; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tichenor, from Colo; Mrs. Alice Ross, from Chicago; and numerous relatives and friends from Oakland, Bently, Woodburn, Emerson and Climax.

Walter Bamford, a brother of the deceased, has a leg broken in Waterloo on Wednesday and was unable to come, and his sisters, Misses Belle and Marie, remained there to care for him.

Frank Davis Bamford, was born on a farm in Pottawattamie county June 3, 1885, and with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Bamford, moved in boyhood to Russell and then to Colo. At the latter place he taught school coming to Red Oak in 1905. He attended Western Union college and the Cedar Rapids business college, and six years ago took employment as clerk in the C. B. & O. freight house here. After three years of service in that place he became an employee of the Red Oak National bank, and he was here employed at the time of his death.

On Nov. 10, 1909, Mr. Bamford was married in Anita to Miss Ruth McLain of Red Oak, who with one daughter Virginia, survives him. He is survived also by his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Bamford of Waterloo, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Mabel Tichenor, of Colo; Mrs. Alice Ross, of Chicago; Miss Belle Hubert, Walter and Miss Marie all of Waterloo.

Mr. Bamford was an unusually young man. With absolute honestly be combined faithfulness, industry, charity and cheerfulness, and no young man in the community had more friends, nor stood better with them than did he. He was faithful member of the United Evangelical church, always active in work for the good of the church, and liberal in the contributions to the cause. At the time of his death he was superintendent of the Sunday school president of the Keyston lodge and a trustee of the church. In business he was one the promising young men of the city. His employers, as well as his co-workers, recognized in him one of absolute honesty and of marked ability. By his many virtues he had drawn to him a large circle of warm friends who now extend in the sorrowing relatives the sincerest of sympathy.