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Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker 1952
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may 5-1952
THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS, BANGOR, MAINE, MONDAY,
ELISHA G. BUNKER
CPL EDGAR A. BUNKER
Double Funeral
For Son, Father
Planned Tuesday
GREAT CRANBERRY ISLAND,
May 4-A double funeral service
for a son who died last October
in Korea and his father who died
suddenly Saturday night here will
be held on Great Cranberry Island
Tuesday afternoon. The father is
Elisha C. Bunker. 81. The son is
Cpl. Edgar A. Bunker, 26.
Corporal Bunker was serving
with the Fifth Cavalry Division on
the eastern front at Youchon,
Korea. when he was wounded in
action on Oct. 7, 1951. He died the
following day.
Born on Great Cranberry Island
March 26. 1925, the son of the
late Elisha G. and Annie Spurling
Bunker, Bunker attended the
Cranberry Island school and Pe-
metic High school of Southwest
Harbor. He was a member of the
Rockbound grange of Cranberry
Island. He was drafted into the
U. S. Army on Sept. 16, 1950, and
was graduated from the Chemical
Warfare school in Japan in August,
1951. After his graduation he was
sent to active duty in Korea
He is survived by four sisters,
Mrs. Ada W. Rice, Mrs. Leona A.
MacAllister, Miss Pauline L. Bun-
ker, and Miss Charlene Bunker.
two aunts, and two nieces, all of
Great Cranberry Island.
Elisha G. Bunker died suddenly
at his home here Saturday evening.
He was born here on Nov. 26.
1870, the son of William P. and
Hannah Gilley Bunker. He had
always made his home here, where
he was captain of pleasure yachts,
and had conducted a general store
for 20 years.
Mr. Bunker is survived by four
daughters, two sisters, Mrs. Nellie
Spurling and Miss Clara Bunker:
and two nieces, all of Great Cran-
berry Island.
Funeral services for Corporal
Bunker and his father will be con-
ducted at the Cranberry Island
Congregational church on Tuesday
at 1:30 p. m. by Dr. Charles Cum-
mings of the Bangor Theological
seminary Interment for both will
be in the Bunker cemetery on
Great Cranberry Island, with mili-
tary services at the grave for Cor-
poral Bunker by the Eugene M.
Norwood post 169 of the American
Legion of Southwest Harbor.
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Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker 1952
Newspaper clipping, double obituary of Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker, with photo of each, Bangor Daily News, 5 May 1952
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