B. F. RACER SUMMONED  BY DEATH 

Benjamin F. Racer, aged 78 years, died at 4:30 a.m., Monday, February 25, at the home of his nephew, Benjamin  Racer, near Lacy. 

He had been confined to the house for the greater part of the past year and had been  bedfast several weeks immediately preceding his death. 

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the Hammer & Cordry funeral home on  South Main Street. Rev. H. M. James, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, officiated. 

Burial was made in  the Lyon Valley Cemetery, northeast of Hennessey, beside two brothers and a nephew who preceded him in  death. 

Benjamin Franklin Racer was born in Delaware, Ind., August 4, 1850 and died Feb. 25, 1929.  He removed from Indiana to Iowa in 1854, and came to Oklahoma in the year 1900.

His death leaves but one survivor of a  family consisting of five sisters and three brothers- Mrs. Lettie Bayley, of Oakville, Iowa. 

He united with the  Methodist church in early manhood and was also a member of the Masonic Lodge.