An illness of five months was ended Tuesday as death came to Urias T. Whitmer in Baltimore only six weeks after the passing of his wife. A heart ailment took his life as he was visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. O. Calvin Doub of Baltimore. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, May 30, from the Tickner funeral home of Baltimore, with the Rev. Frances Lynch in charge, and interment will be made in Parkwood Cemetery. Death came to the Ortonville man as his two daughters, Mrs. Doub and Mrs. Arthur Crothers, were in Ortonville taking care of his business. Urias Toops Whitmer was born September 8, 1868, in Iowa, the son of Joseph and Harriet Whitmer. His first marriage occurred in 1889 when he was wed to Zepha Smith at Wilton, Iowa. One daughter, the present Mrs. Crothers, was born to the union. He was married a second time to Laura Ann Zehringer on August 26, 1899, and a second daughter Mrs. Doub, was born. He spent his early life in Iowa and Oregon moving to Oklahoma in 1905 and to Minnesota in 1927. He was a publisher of the first newspaper that Morris, Oklahoma ever had, and served later as the clerk of the district court in Okmulgee county in that state. His later years were spent in farming and he had been a resident of the Ortonville area for 22 years at the time of his death. He is survived by his two daughters.
An illness of five months was ended Tuesday as death came to Urias T. Whitmer in Baltimore only six weeks after the passing of his wife. A heart ailment took his life as he was visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. O. Calvin Doub of Baltimore. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, May 30, from the Tickner funeral home of Baltimore, with the Rev. Frances Lynch in charge, and interment will be made in Parkwood Cemetery. Death came to the Ortonville man as his two daughters, Mrs. Doub and Mrs. Arthur Crothers, were in Ortonville taking care of his business. Urias Toops Whitmer was born September 8, 1868, in Iowa, the son of Joseph and Harriet Whitmer. His first marriage occurred in 1889 when he was wed to Zepha Smith at Wilton, Iowa. One daughter, the present Mrs. Crothers, was born to the union. He was married a second time to Laura Ann Zehringer on August 26, 1899, and a second daughter Mrs. Doub, was born. He spent his early life in Iowa and Oregon moving to Oklahoma in 1905 and to Minnesota in 1927. He was a publisher of the first newspaper that Morris, Oklahoma ever had, and served later as the clerk of the district court in Okmulgee county in that state. His later years were spent in farming and he had been a resident of the Ortonville area for 22 years at the time of his death. He is survived by his two daughters.
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