Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-06
Funeral Services
for Fred Dodge

The funeral of Fred Dodge was
held at the home of o. II. Johnson,
Mrs. Dodge's father, 9OS North Main
street, Thursday afternoon at 2
O'Clock. Services were conducted by
Rev. H. A. Carnahan, who told OF
the life and activities of the de-
ceased in Ashland and in the fulfil
ment of his duty in the employ of
the Southern Pacific Company, whose
interests he was serving at the time
of the frightful accident which
caused his death the following day.
Appropriate and touching music was
we'll rendered by the male quartette.
A large concourse of relatives and
friends of the deceased were in at
tendance at the funeral. The Elks
lodge. of which he was a member.
attended in a body. Many large and
beautiful floral pieces and profu-
sion of cut flowers brought by
friends individually and by organiza-
tions attested to the high regard in
which Mr.. Dodge was held through
out his home town and neighboring
towns as we'll. After the services at
the home more than sixty automo-
biles bore the mourning relatives and
friends to the Ashland cemetery,
where interment was made in the
family lot near the southeast en-
trance. The day was ideal and the
mourners gathered about the grave
as the last service upon earth was
offered to the departed friend under
the auspices of the Elks lodge.
Fred Dodge was born in Ashland
on February 10, 1885. He was the
son of the late Ira Dodge, a veteran
of the Civil War. ]. P. Dodge of
Ashland and Warren Dodge of Med
ford are uncles of the deceased. Two
years ago last August Mr.. Dodge was
married to Miss Pearl Johnson, and
a baby girl was born to them a few
months ago. Besides his wife, who
has been in a state of nervous cob
lapse over her husbands death, he
leaves two sisters. Mrs. Charles
Loomis of Ashland and Mrs. Blaine
Klum of Medford, also a brother,
Frank Dodge, station agent of the
Southern Pacific Company at billiard,
Ore.
The details of the accident causing
Mr.. Dodge's death were given in the
last issue of the Tidings. In addi-
tion it is learned that Engineer Wal
ter Everton and one of the brake
men found Dodge in his sad plight
but few seconds after the accident
happened. To Everton he made the
remark that both his arms were
crushed, mad the fact that he was
thus incapacitated seemed to weigh
most heavily on his mind. He was
taken quickly to the caboose and
without stopping to detach two
freight cars the run of nine and one
half miles down the mountain to
Ashland was made with Everton's
engine in twenty-five minutes.
Mr.. Dodge was injured in the back
some two years or more ago as the
freight train on which he was work
ing passed under covered bridge.
This injury incapacitated him for
work for some time, and he had not
been as strong since but had been
back at work on the road for some
months He stood well the amputa-
tion of both arms and was rational
afterward, but the resultant shock
was too much and death came as a
relief to his suffering.
The sympathy of the whole com
munity is with the PROSTATE wife,
the little daughter and the many
relatives and close friends of the de-
parted one, who for so many years
was full of manly vigor, courage and
happiness.