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Iron River Reporter
February 26, 1932


                       WILLIAM FLOYD Taken By Death
                     Passes Away at Home of Daughter
                     After Illness of Year's Duration.
                     
           WILLIAM FLOYD, 75, died at the home of his daughter, MRS.
         CHESTER PERKINS, 31 Eighth avenue, yesterday morning at 
         10 o’clock following an illness of almost a year’s duration.  
           MR. FLOYD was first taken ill in California last winter, 
         when he was visiting there. MRS. PERKINS travelled to the 
         coast and spent several weeks with him in California be-
         fore bringing him back to Iron River. Since then he has 
         made his home here with the PERKINS family.
           Death is attributed to complications attendant upon old 
         age and heart disorder. He was preceded in death by his wife,
         who passed away in May 1930, dying in California while she 
         and MR. FLOYD were there on a trip. MR. FLOYD was born in 
         Hamilton, Canada October 5, 1866 and spent a part of his 
         early days in the lower peninsula. He first came to the 
         upper peninsula in the employ of the Northwestern Railway 
         company, coming first to Escanaba, where he resided for 
         about 20 years. He then moved to Iron Mountain and, after 
         spending several years there in the employ of the same 
         company, moved to Stambaugh in 1912 and served the company 
         here for five years as roundhouse foreman.
           Leaving Stambaugh, he went to Ironwood, where he stayed 
         only a short time and was finally stationed in Watersmeet, 
         where he served as roundhouse foreman for nine years. A 
         little over two years ago he was retired on a pension. He 
         is survived by two children, MRS. PERKINS of this city, and 
         FRANK of Stambaugh; three brothers, FRANK and GEORGE of 
         Detroit, and NED of Chicago; one sister, MRS. KATE SCHEAR-
         HART of Detroit, and four grandchildren. Funeral arrange-
         ments have not been completed, but it is probable services
         will be held from the home Saturday with the REV. MARCUS J. 
         BROWN of the St. John’s Episcopal church officiating.
           MR. FLOYD was a member of the Masonic order and the funeral
         rites will be in charge of that order.
           
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