5DAY, OCTOBER 27, 192!
SON OF FORMER ELMORE WAN
| -. :s ('DIES, VERY SUDDENLY
I Relatives and .friends here were .
, greatly shocked whan the news came
',Sa!turday evening (that Jaw. H. Becker,
\24,i sqn of Mr. ■anfr'Afe'.--oi. A. Becker,
1 ha.dij.died sudder/ly without warning'
,t that;-afternoonAvhile at Oberlin to u.t-
| teijdi'-afootbail game. He had driven
over, to Obeiriin in his machine and
I had'called a/a rooming house to get a
j Miss".Brow^: of Clyde, an, old friend,
! and both vfere going to the game. Miss
i Brown wa/K not quite ready, ho a friend
'opened thfe door for Mr. Becker, who.
j at that m'oment raised Jus hand to* his
head and* dropped over dead.
I He v.'ijis the only son of Mr. and ■
i'Mrs'^ Beaker avid had just finished a
! course at\ Boston Technical college in
the spring, ^Jjince then lie had been
employed (fepSffi^B^y and had a bril-
j lianl;. future "before'him. He had al-
I ways enjpsed^'good health and was in ,
s the best of^sukrils 'when he left San-:
dusky .for jbh,eV>hv where he arrived;
Ubout 2:30.1V'V'-'v :
■' The bodydjwas taken to the Becker
home at. Clydfc,vwhere the funeral was :
held: Tuesday '^i'tevnoon, October 25,
with 'burial' iiV^'ftlcPherson cemetery.
.Those attending -from Elmore were
iDr. and Mrs.Th-.'amgold, Mr. and'Mrs,
'-**. H. 'fWiiUams.'s.Mi*. C. H. Dam-
"schroder, John Dairis^'hroder; also
j;Mrs,' Clara -Lumen ana^ daughter
\:Franees of Cleveland andJ«t"S- Flor¬
ence' Dromgold, with her sister 3*i\d
husband'Mi. and Mrs. Ed DamH
Schroder of Toledo/ Mrs.'White-1
man of Millbury,,arint of the deceas-;|
ed; ^fithV be^husband also attended..!
James Howard Becker was born in
Clyde,'.October 14, 1897, and had just j
passed hia'L twenty-fourth birthday. He i
grew to- manhood in Clyde and was I
graduated from the high school there, I
after which he took' a course in Bos- j
ton Technical college. He graduated'
from there last June and for a time *
was a member of the faculty there.!
.Recently,, he secured a fine position;
;withva Sandusky firm and had had j
brilliant future prospects when the;
I dvead summons came without'1 any j
warning. He is survived by his par-1
ents and one. sister, Mrs. C. Fuller of'
Columbus, who have the sincere gym- !
pathy of' all their friends in their !
great sorrow.
