On Monday, July 25rd, there passed from our cemmunity one of Whitehorse's oldest and best known citizens in the person of Mr. D. B. O'Connor.
Dennis Brian O'Connor was born in Keelnahulla, County Cork, Ireland, and came North with the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. He was engaged in prospecting and mining at Nome and
Fairbanks, Alaska, and in the Kluane district. Abandoning the mining game, he entered the service of Robert Lowe & Company and a few years later he joined the Mail Service Department of the White Pass & Yukon Route, first as blacksmith and later as stage driver, continuing in this capacity until the Mail Service Department was terminated in the spring jof 1920. Mr. O'Connor then took over the duties of driver for the Commissary Department, which position he has filled ever since.
On July 26th, 1908, he was united in marriage to Miss Rose Tezler, and their home was made in Whitehorse. "Denny" O'Connor as he was known to everyone, had friends far and wide in the North Country. He had a fund of anecdotes of the North and a droll Irish wit which was inimitable. Generous and kind to the men who were on their uppers, many a man he assisted when the need was great.
The funeral was held from the home on the afternoon of July 24th, Rev.
H. B. Metcalf officiating. The pallbearers were Messrs. H. Wheeler, W. D. Gordon, W. S. Watson, G. A. Walker, A. E. Stewart and F. G. Wilson. With beautiful floral offerings and accompanied by many old-time friends, interment was made in the Whitehorse Cemetery amidst the waving pines of the Yukon he loved so well.
To his wife, five sisters and two brothers residing in Ireland and New York, the sincere sympathy of this community is extended.
