Funeral services for Howard Couillard, 69 year old resident of Stiles, whose body was found last week Wednesday afternoon, wedged between a boiler and a wall in the pump house of the St. Paul Railroad company at Oconto Junction, were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his home and interment was made in the Evergreen cemetery at Oconto.
The deceased, statements received by Coroner Dr. J.S.Dougherty of Suring indicate, left for the pump house where he was employed about midnight on Feb 26 and when he failed to return home the afternoon of the 27th, his wife became alarmed and had Mr. Crooks, a garageman at Stiles, go to the pump house to look for her husband.
When Mr. Crooks went to the pump house he found the door locked from the inside and after gaining entrance found the body wedged between the rear of a boiler and the wall.
Coroner Dougherty was called and after an investigation pronounced death from natural causes, no inquest being held. It is beieved the deceased had a heart attack and fell between the wall and boiler.
Mr. Couillard was born in the town of Oconto and for the past 21 years had been employed by the St. Paul railroad.
Survivors are his wife, one adopted son, Joseph, who is stationed in a CCC camp at Three Lakes; six brothers, John of Channing, Mich., Benjamin of Kimberly, Peter, Bert, and Leo of Green Bay, and Grover, address unknown, also one sister, Mrs. Frank Mineau of Big Suamico.
(note: {Thomas} Howard Couillard was born circa 1866 and was the son of Charles Smith Couillard, and the date of death was Wednesday, March 1, 1935)