. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. July 30, 1914. The Florists^ Review 21 OBITUARY Theodore Bock. Theodore Bock, one of the best known older florists in the United States, ended his lif^ by shooting him- self in the head at ~the home of his brother, George Bock, in Hamilton, O., Monday, July 27. Despondency as the result of ill health caused the deed. Mr. Bock was 68 years of age. He re- tired from business a year ago, the Heiser Nursery & Tloral Co. buying most of the stock and greenhouses. Since then he had been doing nothing, his failing health not permitting. Theodore Bock's
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. July 30, 1914. The Florists^ Review 21 OBITUARY Theodore Bock. Theodore Bock, one of the best known older florists in the United States, ended his lif^ by shooting him- self in the head at ~the home of his brother, George Bock, in Hamilton, O., Monday, July 27. Despondency as the result of ill health caused the deed. Mr. Bock was 68 years of age. He re- tired from business a year ago, the Heiser Nursery & Tloral Co. buying most of the stock and greenhouses. Since then he had been doing nothing, his failing health not permitting. Theodore Bock's name has been ap- pended to many well written and val- uable articles which have appeared in The Review. His services were fre- quently called for as a judge at flower shows in Indianapolis, Chicago and Cin- cinnati and it was as a chrysanthemum grower that he made his greatest suc- cess. Several good varieties owe their origin to him. He was in business in Hamilton twenty-seven years, cater- ing to a general retail and cemetery trade. Before that he was employed as a florist in the White House green- houses under Presidents Arthur, Hayes and Garfield. He was not married, but is survived by several relatives in Ger- many, of which he was a native; in Canada, and in his home city. Thomas Mansfield. The unexpected death is reported of Thomas Mansfield, for more than twen- ty years a florist at Lockport, N. Y., and for a long term a subscriber to The Review. Mr. Mansfield was 75 years of age. He was about his business as usual July 23, but on the following morning ; was stricken by heart disease and ex- pired almost immediately, in his home adjoining the greenhouses at 481 Haw- ley street. He is survived by his wife, four daughters and one son—Mrs. Charles Fraser, Lockport; Mrs. William Midgley, Loraine, O.; the Misses Mary and Salina Mansfield and William Mansfield, who will carry on the busi- ness their father had conducted suc- cessfully for two decades. The funeral was held
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