FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, May 2, 1912 DEATH OF A. L. ORTEN Farmington loses a good and upright citizen in the death of Alvin Luther Orten, which occurred at his home in this city at one o'clock last Sunday morning, April 28, 1912. Mr. Orten had been wrestling for several weeks with an attack of pneumonia in his right lung, and last Saturday was apparently much better and believed to be fairly on the way to recovery, but that evening symptoms of the disease appeared in his left lung, and in his weakened condition he did not have strength enough left to combat it. He became suddenly worse and rapidly grew weaker, dying at one o'clock Sunday morning. Mr. Orten was born near Desloge in this county on November 25, 1857, and was 54 years, 4 months and 3 days old at the time of his demise. He had lived all his life in this county with the exception of a few years when he was in business in Louisiana, Mo. For a number of years he had made his home in Farmington, where he has been engaged in merchandising and other occupations, esteemed and respected by all who knew him. He married Miss Ida J. Jackson of Fredericktown November 23, 1892, and to them five children were born -- Claude E., L. Eugene, J. E. Lee, Mary E. and James M., all of whom survive to mourn the death of a devoted husband and loving father. Besides his immediate family he leaves one brother, Judge J. H. Orten, and two sisters, Mrs. Jesse Edwards and Mrs. Wm. Parks, all of Ste. Genevieve county. Mr. Orten was a faithful member of the M.E. Church, South, an exemplary Christian and a good neighbor and citizen. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. R. Jenkins at the Southern Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon, and his body was laid to rest in the Masonic cemetery.