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Services Held For FothergillA large number of Massillon and Detroit friends paid their final tribute to Robert Roy Fothcigill, 40, Massillon satidlot baseball player who made good in the big leagues, at funeral sendees held Thursday at 3 p. m, at the Gordon - Shaidnaglp - Hollhiger funeral home. Fothergill, who was an outfielder with the Detroit Tigers from 1931 to 1929, died at St. Joseph's Mercy hospital at Detroit, Sunday morning.The Rev. F. B. Hax. pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church, officiated, interment was made in the Massillon cemetery.Six members of the Kessco bowling team at Detroit of which FothercUi(was a member were the active peH bearers. They were Mr.. Houteman, C. Biggs, J. Bland, A. Watson, B,lt; Evans and S. Pollard. Homer M-J Johns, T. W. Brown, Harold Black, Milton Wilker. Ralph It.' Bush, P. A. Kuhn and Chester Scatterday, members of Massillon. Post, No. 221, American Legion, or which Fothergill was a member, acted as honorary pall bearers. Taps were sounded by Delbert Kettler, bugler of the legion drum corps.FIRE DAMAGES HOUSEFiremen of No. l and 3 companies were called to the residence of Mrs. Priscilla Boyd. 709 Wetmore ave., SE, this morning, after heat from a coal stove ignited woodwork in an upstairs room. Members of the family extinguished the flames before fire-^ * 4 | VV1«slight damage.
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1938
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