MANY ATTEND FUNERAL LATE FRANK C. PITKIN

Scores Pay Final Tribute to Former Well-Known Newspaperman

              Surrounded by fellow employees with whom he had worked so faithfully and by a host of friends to whom he had endeared himself so well, Frank C. Pitkin, well known newspaperman and member of the editorial staff of the Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune was laid to rest, Saturday afternoon.

             The funeral was largely attended, every municipality in Welland county being represented. Many members of the Welland county council were in attendance to pay their last tribute to one who for years had so well reported their meetings. Welland city and county officials also attended the funeral.

             Services were held at the family home near Fonthill, Ven. Archdeacon N.I. Perry, rector of Holy Trinity church, Welland officiating, assisted by Rev. H. Woods of the Fonthill Baptist church.

             Comforting words of sympathy to the bereaved family were spoken by Archdeacon Perry who also referred to the many sterling qualities of the late Mr. Pitkin. Archdeacon Perry spoke of the brilliance of Mr. Pitkin in his craft, eulogizing him as possessing the pen of a ready writer. His loyalty in “carrying on” to the end, his struggle with ill health maintained with cheerfulness and optimism and his supreme quality of gentle humor that illuminated his darkest days, all gathered around him friends from all walks of life, declared the Archdeacon.

             “His passing is a great loss not only to the newspaper fraternity but to the district at large,” was Archdeacon Perry’s further tribute.

             Following the funeral service at the house, interment took place at Fonthill cemetery. Numerous floral tributes were silent testimonials of the esteem in which the late Mr. Pitkin was held.

             Pallbearers were A.B. Damude, reeve of Fonthill; Frank H. Clark, reeve of Thorold township; D.D. Gross, Welland city solicitor; W.E. Wolfe, and two fellow newspapermen, T.C. Weatherhead and William Lewis.

 The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune

4 November 1929