The Nome nugget., 1926-05-29
DEATH AND FUNERAL DETAILS OF THE LATE
 tAlNIN G. BRINkER

The motorship Donaldson brougdt
 in copy of the Belle Pluine Her
 aid of Minneapolis which gives an
 interesting aeeeunt of rhr sad iDea7a
 and funeral of our old friend ma
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 In the last #Iseur el= tbr=HeriRi= was announced lbc ylai. here of Calvin Brinker of Namr, NasEa= This week We must makn the sad announcement #af hi7 sudden douli=
 Arriving in=tha states, Hlr= lHm= ker made a yisit with=his brothor in Portland. oreeuu then down te Nts Mexico In -oc=his ueice- Mrs F e crempton. From rherr he woW East and was;t encst= of hi= sister. and brother tt5 law. N15 and N''s Ed triees.6f l'itt=hursbs Pa Coming back West h. enjoyed short yi4it witf=a bosheod ftitts,l itt chicaro. and sa on ta MuHaappli to the honr efh4 'rptbor NeN NDoo5 with whom htf5llue t5= key4ttaae week IF" last Sainrdal aud sa= rhs. guest et hts 4j-e9 Hf Ja4e 5rnt eaN foi sevela1=tt4A Ill., then r.= tntnrd to ,ln#,5.lF wFtf5 bis t55ftsF and was pl,nuiua eg faaNing Mon day for Iauestevn tf,G= th9# home al his sjsf,a. Mr. I'o Ian t.--= last ol his imna.tliare= =fqmtls af. hi7 itinerary
 Friday night br =s6fIare9 w.t= what he thought was indigestion and in the morniup hn went |" tbr. doctors office and as thr iocrur made an examination his brnthet Newton standing beside him hnld-
 ing his hand snddcnly, wjth4ut | word or an instaut's warnine, h. passed away This caur as ;e =twri blt- NI't'h lt lI- tlllliit''iI4iI'' ltf'llIl l- and relatives. the one rrniu Gf com fort so long as it was to be- WaS th" fact that he was here with them anl had spent il few l1vs with each on" with the exception Of Mr. Bostou, and it is her great sorrow that h never reached her home
 Calvin Brinkor was born in Belle Plaiue in 1865 and Was therefore sixty-one years old at tbe time of his death He spent his hoyhood in RellePlaine. Keystone and Blakolev When young man hr entered | drug store in St. Paul and from there he went to Nome. Alaska, where he engaged in the same lin" of business. He was th" only drug gist in Nome and was known as thr oldest druggist in Alaska in point of residence He was well acQnain'- ed with snch we'll known writers ai Jack London and Rex Beach. and also with many of the characters in their stories
 He leaves to mourn his sudden death three sisters. Mrs Jane Slw- cox of Keystone. Mrs Boston of Jamestown. Mrs Ed. Gri-es ot Pitt sburgh .and three brothers, AleT- ander of Portland, Ore Ward oG Blakcley. and Newton uf Minnep- polls.
 Funeral services wore held in Belle Plaine Tuesdav afternoon. April 9th and he was laid to rest in Oakwood cemetery under T whitH mantel of snow. symbol of the land where he made his homr so nanv years. Those who came from a dis tanc.. to pay their last respects yer" M~r Boston and Mrs. N1llaney of Jamestown Mir, and Mir, Ed '. Griggs of Pittsburgh, Mrs. F c Crompton of Raton. New M"Nie', Newton Rrinkcr, MT. and Mrs Char les Simcox. and Mir. and Mrs R, NJ Ward of Minneapolis. Mrs Frank Mcknight. Mrs Davis and MT Dnd- lev of Buffalo. and Tom Kohanek of Nome. Alaska.
 His casket was heaned high with beautiful flowers and among th"m was an offering from the children of Nome who had teleeranhed ten dollars for flowers for the funeral Of their friend