Interment was made at Greenwood cemetery. He had been ill for the past 11 weeks suffering a heart ailment. Mr. Fordyce was born in Greggsville, March 8, 1889. He would have observed his forty-seventh birthday anniversary Sunday. The body was removed to the Bertschy Memorial mortuary.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Burial is to be in Stone Church cemetery. Deceased was taken ill during the early winter, and has been bedfast the greater part of the time. He was in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and is survived by a widow, six children, Otto, Emil, August, Jr., and Mrs. Frank Muenzie at home and Mrs. Herman Kling and Mrs. Herman Sittig of Youngst. Oh, and three brothers, Robert, of Los Angeles, Cal. Charles and Wm. of Pittsburgh. Deceased came to this country from Germany in 1870, and after working in Pittsburgh for a short time moved to this city, where he entered into business, locating at N. 1033 Market St.