The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, January 22, 1899
pg. 4

A DORER DEAD
One of the saddest surprises of the present year is the death of A. Dorer, the jeweler, which occurred at his room on Main street Tuesday forenoon of pneumonia.
Mr. Dorer was sick only a few days.  He was the personification of a rugged manhood, and during his residence here of the past 10 years, this is said to have been his first serious illness.
Mr. Dorer came to this city from Ft. Scott, Kansas, where he was a resident for a number of years.  With his advent appeared quite a number of complimentary notices in the Ft. Scott papers, speaking in the highest terms of his worth as a citizen and business man.
Mr. Dorer commenced the jewelry business here, occupying a portion of the store of J.A. Euper.  For the past 3 years he has conducted business at the drug establishment of Jones & Simmons.  Everyone who came in contact with him, whether in a social or business sphere, received the most favorable impression.  He was a man of warm and generous impulse. 
His pleasant face wreathed in a perpetual smile.  He never worried, at least no one could ever discover it in his demeanor.  His mottoes seemed to be, "Let tomorrow take care of tomorrow; leave the things of the future to fate."
Papers left would indicate that he was a man of considerable wealth.
It was understood that he has 2 sisters and their relatives, who will no doubt in due course of time be heard from.  No one recollects that he ever mentioned his family connections.
The deceased was about 51 years of age.  He was a member of the Knights Templar in this city, and was a 32nd degree Mason.  The remains were taken in charge by the Masons of this city.
Mr. Dorer, although raised a Catholic, has for a number of years been a pronounced "free thinker."
The burial took place at 3 o'clock Thursday evening.  The members of Society Vorwaerts, headed by the Philharmonic band, marched from their hall to the Lindsey undertaking establishment, where the remains had been laid away in a beautiful metallic casket.  Here the singing section of the society sang a funeral dirge, and the band rendered an appropriate selection, after which Mr. L. Lebrecht, president of the society, made a few appropriate remarks,after which another song was sung, followed by instrumental music.  The remains were then turned over to the Masonic order.
The procession was formed by the Knights Templar in full uniform in the lead, followed by the members of Lone Star Lodge, A.F. & A.M.; then came the hearse, the Philharmonic band, members of Society Vorwaerts, and a long cortege of carriages.
At Fairview cemetery the solemn and impressive ceremonies of the Masonic order, were conducted around the open grave.
The pallbearers were S.B.  Harper, James Cross, H.W. Clark, A.A. Malone, Charles Clymer, S.E. Wertz, W.F. Maddox and
J.C. Clayton, of Cale, I.T.