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May 22, 1927   Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio

OSWALD WARRINGTON FUNERAL MONDAY
    Oswald C. Warrington, age 75, an employee of the Denny Lumber Company for the last 20 years, passed away Friday afternoon at his home, 116 Clark St. He is survived by a widow and three daughters, Mrs. Charles Donor, of Dayton, Mrs. Maude Hunter also of Dayton, and Mrs. D. O. McGlaughlin, this city.
    Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence. Rev. Beck officiating. Interment will take place in Middletown Cemetery. Undertaker Howard A. Wilson is in charge.

Sad Death Of an old Citizen Rev. W. B. Warrington
After a Useful Life Passes to That Home Whence None Return
  The sudden death of Rev. W. B. Warrington this morning at his home on Holbrook Street was a severe shock to his many old friends and acquaintances here.
Mr. Warrington was one of the oldest residents in the city and a respected citizen whose hand has had a great influence in the religious growth of Middletown.
  He came here from Cincinnati in the spring of 1855 and organized the Methodist Protestant Church here. In 1856 he received a call from the congregation he had organized and took up residence here as pastor of the new church. During the first year of his pastorate here, the church edifice on Broadway still stands a monument to his endeavors was built and he remained in charge nearly ten years.
He has been pastor all over the Ohio Conference and in 1872 was called to Lincoln, Nebraska, to take charge of the large mission work there. He afterwards returned to this city to make his home with his only son Oswald Warrington.
Rev. Warrington had been quite sick for the past week, but he arose this morning and after eating breakfast seemed to feel a great deal better. He stepped out into the yard and a few moments later was found by his son lying upon the ground. He was carried into the house and a physician called who found his life extinct.
  Coroner McHenry arrived this morning and viewed the remains and pronounced death due to heart failure. Mr. Warrington was in his 80th year and leaves an aged wife and one son, Oswald, besides a host of friends to mourn his death.