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- Emporia Gazette, Monday, September 2, 1935; p.2, c.5
BRICKELL FUNERAL TODAY
Funeral services for Dr. John B. Brickell who died Saturday afternoon at 12:10 o'clock at his home will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Congregational church. Rev. George E. Mitchell, pastor of the church, and Rev. J. H.J. Rice, pastor emeritus, will conduct the services. Internment will be in Memorial Lawn cemetery. The Emporia Masonic lodge will conduct the services at the grave, assisted by a Knights Templar escort.
John Burnside Brickell was the son of William M. Brickell and Jane Ballinger Brickell. He was born September 5, 1863 in Miser, Tenn. He came to Kansas in 1888 and was married to Effie Belle Moore on October 10, 1895, in Saffordville. Dr. Brickell came to Emporia in 1919. In his military connections he had served as a first lieutenant in the medical corps at Fort Riley in 1917, in the New Haven, Conn., army hospital, and he was a major at the close of the World War. When he died he was a lieutenant colonel in the Officers Reserve Corps. He was a member of the Outlook and Lions clubs, the Emporia Order of the A.F. and A.M. Knights Templar, Low Twelve and Shrine, all Masonic Orders, and the Lyon County Medical association. He also was a member of the First Congregational church.
Out-of-town friends and relatives who plan to attend the funeral are: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Watts, Arkansas City; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brickell, Sayre, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brickell, Herington; Mr. and Mrs. Dyke Ballinger, Miami, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Yockey, Wichita; Dr. E. H. Gibson, Mrs. Gibson, and children, Roberta and Wendell Gibson, Rossville, and Mrs. William Correll, Americus.
The casket will be open until 1 o'clock this afternoon at the Sutton Funeral home. The casket will not be open at the services.
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