Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 69
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, July 22, 1931

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR WORLD WAR VETERAN
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Military Honors Accorded at Grave
by Members of American
Legion
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       Last rites for J. W. Erwin, of Marlin, world war veteran, were held in the funeral chapel at 10 o'clock this morning, services being conducted by Rev. S. D. Dollahite, pastor of the First Baptist church of Marlin.
       Selections from the Bible were read by Dr. W. H. Matthews, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, who paid tribute to devotion of deceased to his family and his country.
       Appropriate hymns were sung by members of the Baptist choir.
       Burial followed in Calvary cemetery, military honors being accorded
at the grave by members of Falls county post No. 31 American Legion.
       Pall bearers were  B. C. Segrest, R. R. Eddins, A. J. Hardin, O. A. Edwards, V. R. Marek, Raymond Barnett, Judge W. S. Hunnicutt and Terry Dickens.
       Out of town relatives in Marlin for the funeral included Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Holbrook of Ranger, W. M. Erwin and family of Pampa and Mrs. Annie Burns and daughter of Kosse.

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