Person:John Orchard (2)

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John Orchard, forty-five years a Bellingham resident and at his death officer of the day of J. B. Steedman post No. 24, G. A. R., died early today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Carpenter, 717 E. North street, aged 86 years. He had been ill two weeks. Mr. Orchard, who was a member of the First Baptist church, is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Carpenter; Mrs. Ella Foster, Bellingham; Mrs. W. J. McDonnell, Vancouver, B. C., and Mrs. George Ortwein, Maple Falls; fourteen grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren. Funeral announcements will be made by the Bingham-Dahlquist funeral home. At one time and for many years Mr. Orchard conducted a small store on State street.