Deacon Arthur L. Burdick, son of the Rev. Charles A. and Margaret Amanda Lewis Burdick, was born Feb. 26 1879, in Rapids, N. Y., and died at Bloomington, Ill., April 22, 1971. He came to Farina, Ill., at the age of eight when his father became pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist church there. He received his public schooling at Farina, attended Salem and Milton Colleges, and was graduated from the Bryant School of Piano Tuning, a trade which he practiced at Farina until his retirement in 1961 at the age of eighty-two. On June 30, 1914, he married Blanche Crandall of Farina who survives him. He is also survived by two daughters, Margaret E. Cunningham and Annabelle Fae Melton, both of Bloomington, and two grandsons. Mr. Burdick was baptized and joined the Farina church, March 12, 1892, seventy-nine years ago. He was ordained a deacon, Oct. 24, 1936. He held the office of chorister for thirty-seven years beginning in December 1924. Funeral services were held at the Stonecipher Funeral Home in Farina on Sabbath morning, April 24. The Rev. Robert Bielinberg of Bloomington officiated. Interment was in the Farina Cemetery.
