From the Calgary Daily Herald of Monday, 11 Oct 1909, via Our Future Our Past website:
FRANK SHERMAN IS DEAD
Late President of the Mine Workers Succumbed to Long Illness in Fernie.--Funeral Wednesday.
Special to Calgary Daily Herald:
Fernie, B. C., Oct 11.--Frank H. Sherman, late president of District 18, U.M.W. of A., died this morning in the Fernie hospital at 5.30 o'clock, after a long struggle against a stubborn malady. The end was not unexpected, and his wife and family were at the bedside at the last moment.
Mr. Sherman leaves a large family, including a blind boy, in straightened [sic] circumstances, and his death is deeply regretted by a large circle of friends, which reaches far beyond the confines of the organization of which he was so long the leader.
The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday from the Miners' hall, Victoria avenue, Fernie.
Info about obituary received 2017 Jan 02.
FRANK SHERMAN IS DEAD
Late President of the Mine Workers Succumbed to Long Illness in Fernie.--Funeral Wednesday.
Special to Calgary Daily Herald:
Fernie, B. C., Oct 11.--Frank H. Sherman, late president of District 18, U.M.W. of A., died this morning in the Fernie hospital at 5.30 o'clock, after a long struggle against a stubborn malady. The end was not unexpected, and his wife and family were at the bedside at the last moment.
Mr. Sherman leaves a large family, including a blind boy, in straightened [sic] circumstances, and his death is deeply regretted by a large circle of friends, which reaches far beyond the confines of the organization of which he was so long the leader.
The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday from the Miners' hall, Victoria avenue, Fernie.
Info about obituary received 2017 Jan 02.
From the Calgary Daily Herald of Monday, 11 Oct 1909, via Our Future Our Past website:
FRANK SHERMAN IS DEAD
Late President of the Mine Workers Succumbed to Long Illness in Fernie.--Funeral Wednesday.
Special to Calgary Daily Herald:
Fernie, B. C., Oct 11.--Frank H. Sherman, late president of District 18, U.M.W. of A., died this morning in the Fernie hospital at 5.30 o'clock, after a long struggle against a stubborn malady. The end was not unexpected, and his wife and family were at the bedside at the last moment.
Mr. Sherman leaves a large family, including a blind boy, in straightened [sic] circumstances, and his death is deeply regretted by a large circle of friends, which reaches far beyond the confines of the organization of which he was so long the leader.
The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday from the Miners' hall, Victoria avenue, Fernie.
Info about obituary received 2017 Jan 02.
FRANK SHERMAN IS DEAD
Late President of the Mine Workers Succumbed to Long Illness in Fernie.--Funeral Wednesday.
Special to Calgary Daily Herald:
Fernie, B. C., Oct 11.--Frank H. Sherman, late president of District 18, U.M.W. of A., died this morning in the Fernie hospital at 5.30 o'clock, after a long struggle against a stubborn malady. The end was not unexpected, and his wife and family were at the bedside at the last moment.
Mr. Sherman leaves a large family, including a blind boy, in straightened [sic] circumstances, and his death is deeply regretted by a large circle of friends, which reaches far beyond the confines of the organization of which he was so long the leader.
The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday from the Miners' hall, Victoria avenue, Fernie.
Info about obituary received 2017 Jan 02.
Inscription
F. H. SHERMAN
LATE EX-PRES.
DIST. 18 U.M.W. OF A.
BORN
MAY 31, 1869
DIED
OCT. 11, 1909.
THOSE WHO WEEP NOT FOR KI
NGS SHALL WEEP FOR THEE.
AND FREEDOM'S HEART GROWS
HEAVY AT THY LOSS.
THIS MONUMENT WAS
ERECTED BY THE MEM
BERS OF DIST. 18 U.M.W.
OF A. AND ALSO A FEW
PERSONAL FRIENDS AS
A MARK OF THEIR ESTEEM
FOR THE SERVICES HE
RENDERED FOR THE
WELLFARE OF HIS FELL
OW WORKMEN.
SHERMAN
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Interred 13 Oct 1909.
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