Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — DEATH OF WAYNE PARKER [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF WAYNE PARKER

The sad but not unexpected intelligence of Wayne Dee Parker’s death came by telegraph late Tuesday evening. He breathed his last at about 3.30 p. m. that day at St. Luke’s hospital, in 'ew York City. His sickness, as we have previously stated, began about two weeks ago, and at first was thought only a severe case of grip, and later for a time was thought to be typhoid fever, but was finally recognized as that most dreaded malady, spinal menengitis. This was only last Sunday, and his father Francis M. Parker and his brother, Oren Parker, left at once for New York, and were by his side when he passed away. From the meager details so far received, it is understood that he was unconscious for quite a number of days, and thus escaped the days of severe conscious suffering that this disease usually entails. The father and brother, were expected to arrive with the body at 3:30 p. m. Thursday, and the funeral will be held Friday, March 2nd, at the family residence, north of the Spitler grove, at two o’clock p. m., Rev. G. H. Clarke, of the Rensselaer Christian church conducting the religious services. Interment will be in -Weston cemetery, . Wayne was born at his father Francis M. Parker’s home in Barkley, March 4th, 1881, and thus lacked only five days of being 25 years old at the time pf his death, on Feb. 27th, 1906. His father later moved to the present Parker farm two miles northeast of town, and still later into his present residence, in the north part of Rensselaer. Wayne was one of the most studious and ambitions, and at the same

time moral and exemplary young men this region ever produced, and also one among the best educated He was a graduate of the Rensselaer high school, then of Butler, now Indianapolis University, and still later of Chicago University, having acquitted himself with great credjt in all these institutions. Next he began a three years course in the law department of Columbia University at New York City, and would, had his life beec spared, have graduated this spring. He leaves to mourn his sad and untimely death, a father and mother, two brothers, Korah and Oren Parker, both well known business men of Rensselaer, and one sister, Miss Clara Parker, a teacher in our city schools, and also an affianced bride, Miss Bessie Burk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W» Burk, now of Lamar, Colorado, and a large circle of more distant relatives.