This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland, Moore, Wright, Cummings Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1001 Message Board Post: Not related, posted for benefit of others. -------------------- McFARLAND - Elzy T. McFarland, 1437 Oklahoma , age 69, died Wednesday, January 27, 1954 at St.Joseph Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1 P.M. Saturday, January 30, 1954, from Colonial Chapel, Reigle Funeral Home, 2417 S. Saginaw St., Dr. E.H.Longman officiating. Burial in Grace Lawn Cemetery. Body will be at the funeral home. Death was due to a heart disease and an illness of 14 months. Mr. McFarland was born in Edmonton, Kentucky, June 20, 1884, and lived in Flint the last 38 years. He retired from the Flint Police Department in 1945, after 25 years of service and has been with the Sheriff Department since. Surviving are: wife, Mrs. Annabelle McFarland; 2 sons, Robert and John McFarland, both of Flint; 2 brothers, Spencer of Indianapolis, Ind. and Melvin of Edmonton, KY; 3 sisters, Mrs. Mamie Moore and Mrs. Hattie Wright of Indianapolis, Mrs. Rose Cummings of Glasco, Ky.; 3 grandchildren. (Flint Journal January 28, 1954 p. 50)