FRANK BARRINGER AND WIFE
The following obituary of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barringer of Sparta, Wis. was taken from the Sparta Tribune.
Frank Arthur Barringer, son of Charles and Clara Thomas Barringer, was born at Reedsburg, Wis., June ?2, 1881. His mother passed away when he was eight years old after which he made his home with his grandparents, going to Iowa until he came to Sparta in 1905. Here he met and married Miss Elsie Tucker, daughter of Joshua and Alice Tucker of Big Creek.
After their marriage they went in the fall of 1906 to Ruso, N.D., where they engaged in farming for two years, when they came back to Sparta and in 1911 they took the management of the State School Farm, which position he successfully held until he resigned to take a position as foreman with the Miami Conservancy at Dayton, O., in November, 1918. He was successfully fulfilling his duties in this capacity when taken with influenza followed by labor pneumonia, which resulted in his death May 24, 1919. His wife and two children joined him at Dayton the day before he was taken ill. She helped nurse him and contracted the same disease and in spite of all that loving care and medical science could do, she went to be with him in the Great Beyond, where sorrow and death do not enter, on June 1, 1919.
Two children, Ralph aged ten and Alice aged seven survive also her mother and three brothers, Mrs. Alice Tucker, Lyndon and Ira Tucker of Big Creek, and Vernon H. Tucker of Dayton, Ohio, also many other relatives. Frank is survived by his father Chas. Barringer of Ruso, N.D., also a sister, Mrs. L. Caller of Ruso, and the following half brothers and sister, Dewain, of Ruthven, Ia., Mrs. H. Brown, Estherville, Ia., Paul, in the army of occupation, Burdell of Sheldon, N.D., Arthur, of Vella, N.D., Olive, Venie, George and Hazel of Ruso, N.D.
The remains were laid to rest in one grave amid a profusion of beautiful flowers, tributes of the esteem in which these young people were held by all who knew them.
They were of a happy disposition and honest in all their dealings and are mourned by a large number of friends here and elsewhere.
Those in attendance at the Barringer funeral from a distance were: Cas. Barringer, Ruso, N.D.; Mrs. H. Brown, Estherville, Ia.; Dewain Barringer, Ruthven, Ia; Willis Brown, Estherville, Ia.; Merritt Brown, Estherville, Ia.; C. Nelson, Tomah; Mrs. N. Petterson, Tomah; Mrs. C. Hertz, Deer Lodge, Mont; Mr. and Mrs. Vernin Tucker, Dayton, Ohio; Victor McIntyre, Dayton, Ohio.

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