This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KARKER HECKATHORN WHEELER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACE/240 Message Board Post: The Milton Eagle Thursday Sept. 26, 1929 Mrs. Chester Karker Mrs. Chester Karker passed away Monday at the family home at the age of 46 years. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Sunnyside church, Rev. T. S. Wheeler officiating, interment following in the Milton cemetery. Elta Heckathorn was born in Steuben county, Indiana, March 16, 1883. The family moved to Norton, Kansas, when she was 14 years of age. In 1903 she was married to Chester Karker and in 1907 they moved to Freewater where they have since resided. Soon after coming here she united with the Sunnyside M.E. church of which she had been a faithful and devoted member. Besides her husband, two sons survive her, Clifford and Elton Karker. Note: Elta was my grandfather's first wife. Contact me for further information on this family.