Frank Bartle
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - March 13, 1931
FRANK BARTLE DEAD.
News came from Red Cliff this morning of the death in Denver of Frank BARTLE, one of Eagle county's older residents and most highly respected citizens.
Mr. BARTLE had been in failing health for the past two years, but until immediately preceding his death his condition was not considered serious. A few months ago he accompanied his aged mother to Denver that she might spend the winter in a milder climate, and it was there he passed away. His mother is the only near relative surviving him.
Funeral services will be held in Red Cliff Sunday afternoon.
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - March 20, 1931
FRANK BARTLE.
There was a large concourse of friends and admirers of the late Frank BARTLE gathered at the little church in Red Cliff last Sunday afternoon, to pay their last respects to the deceased man. The congregation included many of the earlier settlers of Eagle county, who had known the deceased nearly all of his life.
A native of Colorado, born at Bald Mountain, near Central City nearly sixty years ago, in 1871, he moved with his parents to Red Cliff in 1881, when only ten years old, and that place has been his home continuously for fifty years.
Until the past few years Mr. BARTLE had always been in vigorous health, active in the affairs of his home town and county. But two years ago he developed the disease of the mining camps, known as miners consumption and had been slowly failing in health since. Last fall he and his mother went over to Denver for the winter, and, apparently, death was remote until just a few days before the end came, on March 12, 1931.
The funeral service Sunday was a beautiful one and impressed those attending with the great respect and love which the deceased had inspired in the hearts of his friends during his life time.
Rev. M. Lee SMITH, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Leadville, preached a most comforting sermon, and paid a high tribute to the life of Frank BARTLE.
Mrs. R. NORLANDER and Mrs. J. CLEARY sang beautifully three duets, during the service, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," "Near the Cross," and "'Till We Meet Again," accompanied on the piano by Mrs. O. W. MEYER.
Pall bearers were G. E. FLAHERTY, Max KESSECKER, R. V. DISMANT, G. D. ROBERTS, W. H. COLLINS, and Hugh RILEY, all of them nearly life time friends of the deceased.
After the services at the church the body was sadly borne to the little cemetery on the hill at Red Cliff, and gently laid to rest beside those of father, brothers, and sisters, who had preceded Mr. BARTLE in death.
Of relatives only his aged mother is left to mourn his demise. His father, two sisters, Etta and Bertha, and two brothers, Bert and Clifford, having long since passed on to the Great Beyond. Mrs. BARLE has the heartfelt sympathy in the loss of this, the last, of her beloved family. BARTLE was a model son in the love and care of his mother, and his leaving will be a great sorrow to her.
BARTLE, as he was almost universally called by his friends, was a man. A tried and true friend, honest and loyal to his friendships, the community has lost a good citizen in his passing.
