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Obituary

Emil G. Bandeleon, native of Burlington and for many years president of the Wyman & Ran company of this city, ended his own life during the night Saturday, and his body was found by his aged mother early Sunday morning in the gas-filled bathroom of his home at 111 Polk Street.
He had retired as usual about 9:30 Saturday night, but when he failed to come downstairs for breakfast on Sunday morning there was an investigation and it was about 7:40 o’clock when his body was discovered. The pulmotor was used in an effort to revive him but he had been dead for several hours, and these efforts were of no avail.
Mr. Bandleon had been in ill health for about a year and those close to the family assert that he was given much to worry over his physical condition, despite the fact that attending physicians had indicated that his ailments were not such as to warrant thoughts of an early death. He attended his usual duties as head of the Wyman & Rand Furniture company on Saturday, arriving home about 9:30 which also was customary. He visited his mother’s room and told her good night. That was the last time he was seen alive.
Sunday morning, with breakfast served, his mother, Mrs. Nancy Bandleon, 82 years old, asked the housekeeper if Emil had come downstairs and she replied in the negative. Mrs. Bandleon then went upstairs and failing to find him in his room, went to the bathroom. Her son’s body, clad in a nightshirt, was on the floor. A gas heater was turned on full as was also a gaslight. The windows and door had been closed.
Mr. Bandleon had been president of the Wyman & Rand company since the death of Mr. Wyman in 1906 and spent all of his business life with this firm. Completing high school, he entered the employ of this firm as a boy, because bookkeeper and later became the chief executive. He was an efficient businessman and his firm prospered, as it has continued to prosper to this day.
In his younger days, he was active socially, but in later years he lived a somewhat simple life, his two interests being mainly his home and to his aged mother with whom he lived on Polk street, and was ever very attentive to her. While his passing has been a serious blow for her she has borne it with the same fortitude with which she has met other misfortunes.
Emil G. Bandleon was born in Burlington, April 26, 1876, the son of George and Nancy Bandleon, pioneer residents of this city. He attended the public schools and graduated from high school, after which he entered the Wyman & Rand company. He never married, and other than the Elks was not identified with any organization.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Nancy Bandleon, and a grand-niece, Barbara Barr.
Funeral services will be held at the residence, Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with burial in Aspen Grove cemetery. The body was taken to the home from Prugh’s chapel at 10 o’clock this morning.