Friends and relatives in Delphi were deeply shocked last Thursday morning. May 7, when the message came from Detroit, Mich, that Robert Cochrane had died suddenly of heart trouble at his residence there, being found in his room Thursday morning. He is sur- vived by his mother, Mrs. Edith Coch- rane, a teacher in the high school at Jackson, Michigan, cousin, Wayne Cochrane Who resides with Mrs. Cochrane, two aunts, Miss Mary Coch- rane of Delphi and Mrs. Herbert DeVitt of Rockford, Ill.; and an uncle, Will Cochrane of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His body was brought to Delphi early Saturday morning where funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Baptist church, with Rev. Paul Beck, pastor of the Delphi church, and Rev. C. J. Grimes, pastor of the Delphi Presbyterian church, officiating. He was buried in the Masonic cemetery. Robert Cochrane was born October 12, 1900 at Jackson, Michigan. With the exception of the first few weeks his entire life was spent in Delphi until he removed with his mother in 1919 to Jackson, Michigan, for a permanent residence. His school life in Delphi terminated with his graduation in the class of 1918. One of God’s choicest ones has been taken from their circle of members and he was the fifth to be claimed by death, but the first young man. In the fall of 1919 Robert Cochrane entered the Dental department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. At the end of the year he decided to change for a business course in the Normal school at Ypsilanti. Two years were spent in completing his study, after which he accepted a position as supervisor of bookkeepers in the People’s Wayne County Bank at Detroit, which he held for five years. His promotion to the position of Teller in the Main office of the bank was proof of the confidence of his employers in his ability and integrity.

Delphi Journal May 14, 1931