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St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, Missouri, January 15, 1917, page 2, Col. 2: Dr. Packard's Funeral. Service for Dead Clergyman Announced for This Afternoon With Burial In Mount Mora. The funeral of Dr. W. P. Packard, who died Saturday afternoon at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. Lee McDonald, 3239 Seneca street, as announced in the late editions of Saturday's News-Press, was set for 2:30 o'clock this afternoon with service at the St. Francis Street Methodist Church, of which the dead minister formerly was pastor. Dr. Robert E. Goodrich was to officiate, assisted by the Rev. C. B. Duncan, presiding elder of the St. Joseph district. The active pallbearers selected are Perry F. Slade, J. S. Ellingwood, W. H. Seymour, Dr. Daniel Morton, C. B. Kempe, and F. Claude Davis. The honorary pallbearers are the pastors of the local Southern Methodist churches. Interment will be in Mount Mora Cemetery. Doctor Packard died as a result of ptomaine poisoning contracted while he was attending a party in El Paso, Texas, last July. He was in a sanitarium at Marlin Springs, Texas, for some time, and seemed well on the road to recovery when he was removed to St. Joseph, accompanied by his wife, ten days ago. Thursday he suffered a severe relapse. Doctor Packard was sixty-one years old. He was pastor of the Francis Street church from 1897 to 1901 and had occupied pulpits in four states. Besides his wife and the daughter, Mrs. McDonald, the dead man is survived by a son, J. E. Packard, who lives at Montevideo, Uruguay.

Birth	21 Dec 1855	White Sulphur Springs, Meriwether Co., Georgia
Marriage	24 Feb 1878	S. E. to W. F., Ellis Co., Texas - Sophia Eugenia Aycock
Death	13 Jan 1917	St Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri
Burial		Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri

Spouse	Sophia Eugenia Aycock (1860 - 1939)
Child	John Erastus Packard (1879 - 1951)
Child	Lucia Rush Packard (1881 - 1974)

Father	E. E. Packard ( - )
Mother	Lucinda Rush Russell ( - )