Death Takes J. Dorman
Old Hobart Resident Saw Last of Indians
HOBART--Funeral rites for John Frederick Dorman, one of the Gary-Hobart area's citizens who died early yesterday morning at his Indian Ridge estate south of Hobart, will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Hobart Methodist church. Officiating at the services will be the Rev. William Adams, Hobart minister, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Backemeyer, pastor of First Presbyterian church, Gary.
The pioneer as a boy in Blue Island, Ill., witnessed the great Chicago fire and watched bands of Indians make their slow and sad retreat into the west. He was the father of H. C. Dorman, Gary automobile dealer and civic leader, and would have been 85 years old next Dec. 26. Death was attributed to an incurable internal disorder, complicated by infirmities attending his advanced age.
Taken to Pflughoeft's Hobart mortuary, the body will lie in state until 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery, on U.S. Highway No. 6 near Hobart.
Surviving Dorman besides the son, H. C., are the widow, Ella, now 80 years old; another son, Willard G., associated with his brother; an older brother, Fred, a retired Chicago street railway employee; and six grandchildren.
The 160-acre farm-estate where Dorman died, adjoining the Indian Ridge golf course developed in 1926 by his sons, Harold and John, had been in his possession since 1898, when he acquired it from Mr. and Mrs. George Sykes, uncle and aunt of Edith Sykes Dorman, Gary school board member.
--The Times
(Munster, IN), Sun., Sep. 3, 1944, Pg. 7
Old Hobart Resident Saw Last of Indians
HOBART--Funeral rites for John Frederick Dorman, one of the Gary-Hobart area's citizens who died early yesterday morning at his Indian Ridge estate south of Hobart, will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Hobart Methodist church. Officiating at the services will be the Rev. William Adams, Hobart minister, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Backemeyer, pastor of First Presbyterian church, Gary.
The pioneer as a boy in Blue Island, Ill., witnessed the great Chicago fire and watched bands of Indians make their slow and sad retreat into the west. He was the father of H. C. Dorman, Gary automobile dealer and civic leader, and would have been 85 years old next Dec. 26. Death was attributed to an incurable internal disorder, complicated by infirmities attending his advanced age.
Taken to Pflughoeft's Hobart mortuary, the body will lie in state until 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery, on U.S. Highway No. 6 near Hobart.
Surviving Dorman besides the son, H. C., are the widow, Ella, now 80 years old; another son, Willard G., associated with his brother; an older brother, Fred, a retired Chicago street railway employee; and six grandchildren.
The 160-acre farm-estate where Dorman died, adjoining the Indian Ridge golf course developed in 1926 by his sons, Harold and John, had been in his possession since 1898, when he acquired it from Mr. and Mrs. George Sykes, uncle and aunt of Edith Sykes Dorman, Gary school board member.
--The Times
(Munster, IN), Sun., Sep. 3, 1944, Pg. 7
Death Takes J. Dorman
Old Hobart Resident Saw Last of Indians
HOBART--Funeral rites for John Frederick Dorman, one of the Gary-Hobart area's citizens who died early yesterday morning at his Indian Ridge estate south of Hobart, will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Hobart Methodist church. Officiating at the services will be the Rev. William Adams, Hobart minister, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Backemeyer, pastor of First Presbyterian church, Gary.
The pioneer as a boy in Blue Island, Ill., witnessed the great Chicago fire and watched bands of Indians make their slow and sad retreat into the west. He was the father of H. C. Dorman, Gary automobile dealer and civic leader, and would have been 85 years old next Dec. 26. Death was attributed to an incurable internal disorder, complicated by infirmities attending his advanced age.
Taken to Pflughoeft's Hobart mortuary, the body will lie in state until 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery, on U.S. Highway No. 6 near Hobart.
Surviving Dorman besides the son, H. C., are the widow, Ella, now 80 years old; another son, Willard G., associated with his brother; an older brother, Fred, a retired Chicago street railway employee; and six grandchildren.
The 160-acre farm-estate where Dorman died, adjoining the Indian Ridge golf course developed in 1926 by his sons, Harold and John, had been in his possession since 1898, when he acquired it from Mr. and Mrs. George Sykes, uncle and aunt of Edith Sykes Dorman, Gary school board member.
--The Times
(Munster, IN), Sun., Sep. 3, 1944, Pg. 7
Old Hobart Resident Saw Last of Indians
HOBART--Funeral rites for John Frederick Dorman, one of the Gary-Hobart area's citizens who died early yesterday morning at his Indian Ridge estate south of Hobart, will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Hobart Methodist church. Officiating at the services will be the Rev. William Adams, Hobart minister, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Backemeyer, pastor of First Presbyterian church, Gary.
The pioneer as a boy in Blue Island, Ill., witnessed the great Chicago fire and watched bands of Indians make their slow and sad retreat into the west. He was the father of H. C. Dorman, Gary automobile dealer and civic leader, and would have been 85 years old next Dec. 26. Death was attributed to an incurable internal disorder, complicated by infirmities attending his advanced age.
Taken to Pflughoeft's Hobart mortuary, the body will lie in state until 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery, on U.S. Highway No. 6 near Hobart.
Surviving Dorman besides the son, H. C., are the widow, Ella, now 80 years old; another son, Willard G., associated with his brother; an older brother, Fred, a retired Chicago street railway employee; and six grandchildren.
The 160-acre farm-estate where Dorman died, adjoining the Indian Ridge golf course developed in 1926 by his sons, Harold and John, had been in his possession since 1898, when he acquired it from Mr. and Mrs. George Sykes, uncle and aunt of Edith Sykes Dorman, Gary school board member.
--The Times
(Munster, IN), Sun., Sep. 3, 1944, Pg. 7
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