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Surnames: Rider, Wilkinson
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OBITUARY: Newspaper - source unknown (clipped from newspaper and saved by family over the
years)
RIDER
Marion F. Rider, 89, a retired farmer and lifelong resident of Etna Township in Whitley
County, died at 4 o'clock this morning in the Whitley County hospital in Columbia
City. He had been in failing health three years.
Mr. Rider was born near Etna, April 25, 1872, the son of Samuel and Henrietta (Baugher)
Rider, and was married to Nettie Wilkinson who died in 1951. He was formerly a member of
the IOOF in Etna.
Surviving are a son Scott Rider of Etna, five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and
two great-great grandchildren.
Rev. Albert Rider will officiate at a service in the Harris-Troxel Funeral Home in North
Webster at 2 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery at Wilmot. Friends may call
at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday.