OBITUARY:
ROMER - At the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Romer, in North Salem, on Wednesday, June 4, 1902, at 4:30 p.m., John C. Romer, aged 19 years, 8 months, 12 days, of heart failure.
The father of the deceased is an engineer in the employ of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, of Seattle, Washington, and arrived home on Monday.
Funeral services will be held at the residence at 2 p.m. Friday, conducted by Rev. Blackwell, and burial will be had in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends of the family are invited. Seattle papers please copy.
The Daily Journal 5 Jun 1902, 4:5
ROMER - At the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Romer, in North Salem, June 1, 1902, J. C. Romer, age 18 years, of consumption.
the funeral services will be held Friday, and burial will be had in Rural Cemetery.
The Daily Journal 5 Jun 1902, 4:5
[NOTE- both these obits appear on the same day on the same newspaper page and column, one right after the other. In the first, his cause of death is given as heart failure, in the second his cause of death is given as consumption.]
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