Edward Gilbert, 68, of 145 Monroe street, died of carcinoma of the throat at 11:20 a.m. Thursday in the Allen Memorial hospital, where he had been taken last Friday night.
He had been a patient at University Hospital in Iowa City, Ia., for six weeks previous.
Born Dec. 9, 1878, in Topeka, Kan., the son of Frank and Henrietta Gilbert, he moved at the age of one with his parents to a farm two miles northeast of Waterloo. On Sept. 13, 1902, he married Paula White here.
At the age of 25 he began working for the Waterloo Cedar Falls, & Northern railway as a conductor on the Denver-Waterloo interurban. In 1914 he engaged in farming, but in 1929 returned to the employment of the W., C.F. & N. railway, and the following year was a night guard in the Highland district. After that, until the time of his illness, he was in the vermin exterminating business.
His parents, three sisters, two brothers, and one son, Wayne, preceded him in death.
Surviving are three sons, Frank A. Gilbert, 316 Ricker street; Glenn C. Gilbert, 819 Linden avenue, and Master Sgt. Paul Gilbert, who is serving with the ordnance department of First Army headquarters in Belgium; one brother, Joe Gilbert, 1021 West Fifth street; one sister, Mrs. Lulu I. Lane, 509 Longfellow street, and three grandchildren.
The body is at Parrott & Wood funeral home.
He had been a patient at University Hospital in Iowa City, Ia., for six weeks previous.
Born Dec. 9, 1878, in Topeka, Kan., the son of Frank and Henrietta Gilbert, he moved at the age of one with his parents to a farm two miles northeast of Waterloo. On Sept. 13, 1902, he married Paula White here.
At the age of 25 he began working for the Waterloo Cedar Falls, & Northern railway as a conductor on the Denver-Waterloo interurban. In 1914 he engaged in farming, but in 1929 returned to the employment of the W., C.F. & N. railway, and the following year was a night guard in the Highland district. After that, until the time of his illness, he was in the vermin exterminating business.
His parents, three sisters, two brothers, and one son, Wayne, preceded him in death.
Surviving are three sons, Frank A. Gilbert, 316 Ricker street; Glenn C. Gilbert, 819 Linden avenue, and Master Sgt. Paul Gilbert, who is serving with the ordnance department of First Army headquarters in Belgium; one brother, Joe Gilbert, 1021 West Fifth street; one sister, Mrs. Lulu I. Lane, 509 Longfellow street, and three grandchildren.
The body is at Parrott & Wood funeral home.
Edward Gilbert, 68, of 145 Monroe street, died of carcinoma of the throat at 11:20 a.m. Thursday in the Allen Memorial hospital, where he had been taken last Friday night.
He had been a patient at University Hospital in Iowa City, Ia., for six weeks previous.
Born Dec. 9, 1878, in Topeka, Kan., the son of Frank and Henrietta Gilbert, he moved at the age of one with his parents to a farm two miles northeast of Waterloo. On Sept. 13, 1902, he married Paula White here.
At the age of 25 he began working for the Waterloo Cedar Falls, & Northern railway as a conductor on the Denver-Waterloo interurban. In 1914 he engaged in farming, but in 1929 returned to the employment of the W., C.F. & N. railway, and the following year was a night guard in the Highland district. After that, until the time of his illness, he was in the vermin exterminating business.
His parents, three sisters, two brothers, and one son, Wayne, preceded him in death.
Surviving are three sons, Frank A. Gilbert, 316 Ricker street; Glenn C. Gilbert, 819 Linden avenue, and Master Sgt. Paul Gilbert, who is serving with the ordnance department of First Army headquarters in Belgium; one brother, Joe Gilbert, 1021 West Fifth street; one sister, Mrs. Lulu I. Lane, 509 Longfellow street, and three grandchildren.
The body is at Parrott & Wood funeral home.
He had been a patient at University Hospital in Iowa City, Ia., for six weeks previous.
Born Dec. 9, 1878, in Topeka, Kan., the son of Frank and Henrietta Gilbert, he moved at the age of one with his parents to a farm two miles northeast of Waterloo. On Sept. 13, 1902, he married Paula White here.
At the age of 25 he began working for the Waterloo Cedar Falls, & Northern railway as a conductor on the Denver-Waterloo interurban. In 1914 he engaged in farming, but in 1929 returned to the employment of the W., C.F. & N. railway, and the following year was a night guard in the Highland district. After that, until the time of his illness, he was in the vermin exterminating business.
His parents, three sisters, two brothers, and one son, Wayne, preceded him in death.
Surviving are three sons, Frank A. Gilbert, 316 Ricker street; Glenn C. Gilbert, 819 Linden avenue, and Master Sgt. Paul Gilbert, who is serving with the ordnance department of First Army headquarters in Belgium; one brother, Joe Gilbert, 1021 West Fifth street; one sister, Mrs. Lulu I. Lane, 509 Longfellow street, and three grandchildren.
The body is at Parrott & Wood funeral home.
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