Mrs. Funk, Widow of Rogers Publisher,
Succumbs at Conway

April 3, 1939

Mrs. E. M. Funk (Lydia Walters), 82, mother of Erwin Funk of Rogers, died Sunday midnight at the home of a daughter, Mrs. C. J. Greene, at Conway.

Mrs. Funk had been with her daughter since last November but was planning to return to Rogers this month. Death followed a 10-day illness from an attack of influenza.
Funeral service will be held here Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Callison Funeral home, with the Rev. Joseph H. Miller, pastor of the local First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in the Rogers cemetery.
Mrs. Funk moved with her family in January 1897, to Rogers from Springdale, where she had lived for almost a year after coming to Arkansas from Iowa.

Her husband, the late E. M. Funk, who died Jan. 29, 1927, and her son were for many years, publishers of the Rogers Democrat.

Mrs. Funk took an active part in activities of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. Her interest in church work was heightened because of the fact her daughter, Mrs. H. Edwin V. Andrews, was a foreign missionary.

Her parents were buried in the Rogers cemetery. They had moved from Kansas to Rogers a short time before death.
She was married to Mr. Funk March 16, 1876, at Deep River, Iowa, but later moved to western Iowa.

Mrs. Funk is survived by a son Erwin Funk of Rogers; three daughters. Mrs. S. J. Marshall of Muskogee, Okla., Mrs. C. J. Greene of Conway and Mrs. H. Edwin V. Andrews of Chefoo, China; three grandchildren; two brothers, W. K. Walters of Panhandle, Texas, and Charles P. Walters of Kansas City, and a sister, Mrs. Annie Williams