Posted on: Marinette County, WI Obits Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/MarinetteObits/128 Surname: Boyle, Cooley, O'Donnell, Connahan, Rodgers, Doran ------------------------- Obituary for Charles Boyle - Monday 14 Oct 1918 Marinette Eagle-Star, Marinette, Marinette Co., Wisconsin "ANOTHER LOCAL MAN SUCCUMBS TO INFLUENZA Charles Boyle, Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, Dies on Saturday at Des Moines EXPECT BODY HERE SOON Mother of the Young Man Leaves Friday for Camp Dodge Upon Learning Of Son's Illness Charles Boyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, pioneer residents of Marinette, died Saturday at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, of the Spanish influenza, presumably. Word came late Thursday night that he was seriously ill, and his mother, Mrs. Boyle, and George Doran, Mrs. Boyle's son-in-lw, started Friday noon for Des Moines, but it is not thought they reached there before death occurred. The decedent was born in Marinette thirty years ago and passed his boyhood years here. For a number of years he had resided in the west. For some time he was at Jamestown, North Dakota, and more recently at Bismarck. He was a train dispatcher. Last year at the holidays his wife, a bride of the previous June, died, death separating wife and husband by only ten months. The survivors include Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, the parents; seven sisters and brothers as follows: Mrs. George Watts, of Potlatch, Idaho; Brigid Boyle,city; Daniel, of Ironwood; Mrs. George Doran, city; John, who is in France; Lillian, city, and Francis, Milwaukee, in the S. A. T. C. at Marquette University. Arrangements for the funeral are not made, pending word of the arrival of the body, but in all probability the funeral will be private. A message was received at 4 o'clock this afternoon from George Doran, who is with Mrs. Boyle at Des Moines, read, "Leave Des Moines tonight; delayed here". It is expected that the body will reach Marinette by Tuesday night." Tuesday, 15 October, 1918 - The Marinette Eagle-Star "EXPECT SOLDIER'S BODY HERE THIS EVENING The body of Charles Boyle, who died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Saturday, is expected to reach Marinette tonight on the late train. Mrs. Boyle mother of the dead soldier, and her son-in-law, George Doran, will accompany the body here. Upon arrival the body will be taken to J. R. McLain's undertaking establishment where it will remain, under the new health regulations, until the time for burial." Wednesday, 16 October, 1918 - The Marinette Eagle-Star "SOLDIER'S BODY ARRIVES THIS MORNING The body of Charles Boyle, who died at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, arrived in Marinette this morning on the 2:38 passenger. Mrs. Boyle, mother of the decedent, and her son-in-law, George Doran, accompanied it. The funeral will be private and will be held Thursday morning from the chapel of J. R. McLain's undertaking establishment. The military organizations will assemble at the McLain chapel at 10 o'clock, the cortege to proceed from there to Forest Home cemetery where interment will be made. Mr. Boyle was a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Elks lodge. It is probable that these organizations will send delegations." Thursday, 17 October, 1918 - The Marinette Eagle-Star "WITH MILITARY ESCORT CORTEGE IS IMPOSING FRATERNAL AND MILITARY GROUPS PAY RESPECT TO MEMORY OF CHARLES BOYLE DIES IN COUNTRY'S SERVICE OWING TO EPIDEMIC BAN, FUNERAL IS STRICTLY PRIVATE, AS SOLDIER IS PLACED AT REST Another military funeral was held this morning when Charles H. Boyle, soldier son of Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, was buried. He died last Saturday in Camp Dodge, Iowa, the body arriving in Marinette Wednesday morning. Buried in Uniform The body was dressed in the soldier's uniform, and the handsome casket was draped with the American flag. Spanish American War Veterans bore the casket to and from the funeral car. Owing to the epidemic ban, the decedent having died of the Spanish influenza, the funeral was strictly private. It was held from the chapel of J. R. McLain's undertaking establishment, none but the mourners being admitted to the chapel. The Rev. Father F. G. Tulley, rector of Our Lady of Lourdes church officiated. Imposing Cortege At the conclusion of the brief service, the cortege formed at 10 o'clock, headed by the Mystic Workers Drill Team. Delegations from the Knights of Columbus and of the Elks lodge marched. Directly in front of the funeral car marched Attorney Russell Frawley, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Frawley, who was sent as a special detail with the body from Camp Dodge. At the cemetery the many beautiful floral tokens were in charge of Mrs. J. R. McLain and Mrs. P. C. Donnelly. Interment was made in Forest Home cemetery, the Boyle plat adjoining that of the Deau family, where Delaore Deau, who died at Camp Dodge a few days before Charles Boyle, was buried earlier in the week. The grave was lined with cedar and flowers and the casket was encased in a stone vault. Dan Boyle, a brother of the decedent, was here from Ironwood; Francis Boyle, another brother, came from the Marquette U.S.A.T.C., Milwaukee; John and Owen Conahan, uncles of the decedent of Escanaba and Dennis Mooney of Ishpeming were here for the obsequies of the young man who paid the supreme sacrifice while serving in the great world war cause. The bride of Charles Boyle died last December, a few months after marriage and before ten months past, the young husband joins her in death. The casket bearers who walked at the side of the funeral car were Frank Jesska, G. E. Denzin, Harvey Washburn, John DeTemple, Edward Golden and Steven Duket. The other Spanish American War Veterans marched in procession." Link: Doran Family History and Genealogy URL: <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/r/James-Doran/>