Floyd E. Friend, 50, son of Stella R. Friend and the late Joseph

F. Friend, of Swanton, died very suddenly at Charleston General

hospital in Charleston, W. Va., on May 31.

He was employed as superintendent of transportation by the Elk

River Coal and Lumber company, with headquarters at Dundon. Mr.

Friend had devoted his entire life to railroading, having started

as a telegrapher with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at the age

of 16.

Mr. Friend had always taken an active interest in local civic,

educational and governmental affairs and was active in the local

church in the community in which he lived.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at

St. John's Episcopal church, Deer Park. Interment will be in the

George cemetery at Swanton.

Mr. Friend is survived by his wife and the following children;

Mrs. Richard Manning, Washington, Ind., Mrs. Houston Albright,

Akron, O.; Mrs. Howard Lefore, Charleston, W. Va.; Nancy Lee,

Floyd, Jr., George Joseph, John Frederick and one granddaughter,

all of Dundon; his mother, Stella R. Friend, and the following

brothers and sisters; Charles Friend, Grafton, Lawton O. Friend,

Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Gale Warnick and Mrs. Howard Lowman, Swanton;

Mrs. Harry Thrasher, Deer Park, and Joseph Z. Friend, of

Philadelphia, Pa.

(6-3-1943)