Frank Waldo Burdett

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FRANK W. BURDETT DIES SUDDENLY
Stricken in Church While Reading Anniversary Paper

Frank W. Burdett, a deacon in the Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, and vice-president and secretary of Silver Burdett & Company, publishers, died early this morning at the Corey Hill Hospital from cerebral hemorrhage. A few hours before he had collapsed while reading a paper in the Harvard Church at exercises attending the 76th anniversary of its founding.

Dr. Frederick L. Hayes and Dr. J. Herbert Moore attended him at the church and he was removed to the hospital.

Born in Boston Oct. 29, 1858, the son of Horatio and Mary M. Burdett, he attended Brookline High School and Harvard. On leaving college he entered the publishing business. He was with the firm of Silver Burdett & Company, 221 Columbus Avenue, for 40 years.

He married Carrie Starr Dana, daughter of Israel T. Dana, a well-known Portland, Me., physician, in October 1887. She died July 12, 1905.

He had served as a deacon of the Harvard Church for several years and was a member of the Harvard Musical Association and the Commonwealth Golf Club. He lived for many years at the old homestead of his father, 49 Harvard Avenue, Brookline. Recently he took up residence at the Hotel Coolidge.

He is survived by one son, Dana Stearns Burdett, and two daughters, Alice M. Burdett and Mrs. Raymond S. B. Perry.

The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
(The Boston Herald, Boston, MA, Thursday, Nov 06, 1919, Page 11)

HOLD SERVICES FOR FRANK W. BURDETT
Funeral Conducted in Harvard Church, Brookline

Funeral services were held yesterday for Frank W. Burdett of Brookline, vice-president and secretary of Silver Burdett & Company, publishers of Boston. Mr. Burdett was stricken in the Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Wednesday night, and died a few hours later at Corey Hill Hospital.

The Rev. Dr. Ashley Day Leavitt, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Oliver D. Sewall, pastor of the Dedham Congregational Church, officiated. The Harvard Church quartet sang.

Honorary pallbearers were Edward C. Mills, Charles S. Alcott, Fred B. Richardson, Dr. J. Herbert Moore, E. Russel Norton, George H. Worthley, Haviland Stevenson, president of the Silver Burdett Company, and Albert C. Carr, treasurer.

Interment was in Forest Hills cemetery.
(The Boston Herald, Boston, MA, Thursday, Nov 09, 1919, Page 13)

Frank Waldo Burdett, a temporary member of '83, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage, on Nov. 0. He was stricken while reading a paper in Ihc Harvard Church of Brookline, at the exercises attending the seventy-fifth anniversary of its founding, and where he had been a deacon for many years. The son of Horatio Stearns and Mary Melvina (Martin) Burdett, he was born at Boston, Oct. 29, 1859, and prepared for College at the private school of G. W. C. Noble, '58. Leaving Harvard at the end of Freshman year, he entered business, first with the clothing firm of Burdett, Young & Ingalls, of Boston, and next as a partner of W. A. & P. \V. Burdett, wholesale paper warehousemen. In 1887 he entered the publishing house of Silver, Rogers & Co., of Boston, the firm name changing to Silver, Burdett & Co. with which he was identified for thirty years. The business had grown into one of the largest school book and college text-book publishing houses in the country, with branch offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas and in London, England. He was a lifelong resident of Brookline, a member of the Harvard Musical Association and the Commonwealth Golf Club. He was married, Oct. 19, 1887, to Carrie Starr Dana, who died July 12, 1895, leaving three children: Dana Stearns, now in the office of the Boston & Albany R.R.; Carolyn Starr, Vassar, "15; and Alice Martin, who survive their father. Although Burdett was with us only for a year, he always felt the Class ties very strongly, and was a welcome figure at all '83 gatherings, where his cordial, frank and sympathetic nature made him a favorite. ? Thirty-one men assembled at the Harvard Club, on Jan. 17, for our Class Lunch, and on entering the room, found each table decorated with a beautiful bunch of orchids from the Beverly greenhouses of A. C. Burrage. There was no formal speaking, but those present listened delightedly to an hour's talk by C. P. Perin, who gave a vivid and detailed account of his work in India, on behalf of the British Government, by furnishing the supplies of iron and steel that were largely responsible for the winning of the Mesopotamian campaign.
(The Harvard graduates' magazine, Volume 28, March 1920 p.504)

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Frank married Carolyn Starr Dana on 19 Oct 1887 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Carolyn (daughter of Israel T. Dana and Carolyn J. Starr) was born on 28 Dec 1866 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 12 Jul 1895 in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hutchinson Smith Comly. Hutchinson was born on 20 Aug 1893; died on 5 Aug 1952; was buried in Hillside Cemetery and Memorial Gardens, Roslyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dennis, Jean Comly age 92 of Winter Park, passed away on Sunday, December 15, 2019. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Hutchinson S. and Alice B. Comly, Mrs. Dennis moved to Winter Park, FL in 1955. She was a secretary for 19 years at Rollins College. She was a charter member of the Winter Park Junior Service League, a member of the Winter Park Women's Club, The Winter Park Historical Association, and a former member of the Christian Business Women's Club.

Preceded in death by her daughter, Alice Dennis Wren and her husband of 58 years, William B. Dennis Jr. She is survived by sons Steven Scott Dennis and William Benton Dennis III. She has 6 grandchildren and 7 great - grandchildren.