BUNKER - ERI L. - 1926, Bar Harbor

August 18, 1926
Bar Harbor Times

Eri L. Bunker died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.H. Lynam on Friday morning after an illness which had confined him to his room for the past few months.
Mr. Bunker was a member of one of the oldest families of the island, numbering eleven brothers and sisters.  Four of his older brothers served their country in the Civil War and in the family cemetery at Otter Creek are three stones which tell of the deaths of three brothers killed in battle and whose remains were not recovered.  Mr, Bunker, born July 2, 1855, was not a child when four of his brothers marched away in the blue uniform.  He was the son of William G. and Patience Smallidge Day Bunker and was born here where he spent his whole life.
The surviving relatives are the widow, Mrs. N.S. Bunker; the daughters, Mrs. A.H. Lynam and Mrs. Henry K. Ullmann of Santa Barbara, Ca., a son, William G. Bunker, of Halifax, Mass., two sisters, Mrs. W.E. Peach and Mrs. W.J. Evans of Bar Harbor and a brother, George Bunker, a Civil War Veteran;  a grand daughter, Mrs. Rudolph Fritach, formerly Miss Marie Lynam, who is now in Europe.
Mr. Bunker will be mourned too by a large circle of friends.  He was a man whose kindness won for him friendship with all who knew him, one whose death  brings sorrow to many.
Funeral services were held at the home of A.H. Lynam in Holland Avenue on Sunday afternoon.  Dr. W.F. Patterson of St. Saviour's Episcopal Church officiating.  There was singing by a quartet, a large attendance of friends and neighbors  and many beautiful flowers.  The bearers were Carl Ingalls, Ralph Trott, Howard Moon, Frank Small, Eugene H. Higgins, John Casey, all members of the staff at the Bar Harbor Post Office, where for some years Mr, Bunker was janitot.
The burial was in the family cemetery at Otter Creek.