At six o'clock Monday morning, after an illness of two years with cancer of the stomach, death relieved the sufferings of George E. Dorman at his home in Lincoln Township. Mr. Dorman was one of the best known men in the county and was respected and loved by all. He was born in Farmington, Connecticut in 1839, being at the time of his death sixty years of age. When he was seventeen years of age he came west and spent several years in Iowa and Colorado before coming to Kansas. He served his country faithfully and well in its time of peril and because of broken health has ever since had a struggle few of us are called upon to bear. The funeral services were held at his home Tuesday, where the sorrowing relatives and friends following his remains to the Lyndon cemetery where they were returned to earth after the impressional and beautiful GAR ceremony conducted by the Lyndon post of which he was a member. Mr. Dorman was a charter member of the Lyndon camp M.W.A. and many of its members joined the cortage as it passed through the city and were present as the last rites were said over the one they had learned during the long years to love and esteem.
At six o'clock Monday morning, after an illness of two years with cancer of the stomach, death relieved the sufferings of George E. Dorman at his home in Lincoln Township. Mr. Dorman was one of the best known men in the county and was respected and loved by all. He was born in Farmington, Connecticut in 1839, being at the time of his death sixty years of age. When he was seventeen years of age he came west and spent several years in Iowa and Colorado before coming to Kansas. He served his country faithfully and well in its time of peril and because of broken health has ever since had a struggle few of us are called upon to bear. The funeral services were held at his home Tuesday, where the sorrowing relatives and friends following his remains to the Lyndon cemetery where they were returned to earth after the impressional and beautiful GAR ceremony conducted by the Lyndon post of which he was a member. Mr. Dorman was a charter member of the Lyndon camp M.W.A. and many of its members joined the cortage as it passed through the city and were present as the last rites were said over the one they had learned during the long years to love and esteem.
Family Members
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Frederick F. "Freddie" Dorman
1868–1874
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Leota Dorman Potter
1870–1952
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Louise Jane Dorman Doty
1873–1971
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Margaret Addie "Maggie" Dorman Brown
1876–1957
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Martha L. Dorman
1882–1882
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Guy Dorman
1884–1885
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Infant Dorman
1888–1888
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Carl S. "Dick" Dorman
1889–1942
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Herbert Lovell Dorman
1892–1981
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Charles Walter Dorman
1894–1985
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