A sunstroke received during the Civil War when he was orderly for General Powell in the Southern invasions, indirectly caused
the death at Gladstone today of D. K. Dill, Past Commander of Mead Post, Grand Army of the Republic.

Mr. Dill was about 65 years old and lived for some years at Gladstone. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock, Rev. A. H. Mulkey conducting the services. The ceremony will be under the ritual of the Grand Army. Burial will be at
Mountain View cemetery, Oregon City.

Mr. Dill was one of the best known veterans in the state. He was commander of his post in 1911 and is well known in Portland,
where one of his children lives. Mr. Dill joined the Union army with the Company B, Third Infantry of Minnesota. He fought the
entire four years under General Powell as his orderly. At the close of the war he married Hattie Bolser in Minnesota and came to
Oregon in 1882. He settled on a homestead 30 miles east of Portland. Later he went to Hillsboro and then to Clackamas County,
settling near Oregon City, and later taking up his home at Gladstone.

The veteran is survived by the following children: LeRoy A. Dill, Lester E. Dill, Ecola, Clatsop County; Mrs. W. C. Brown,
Sheridan, Or.; Luella W. Dill, of Portland. Two brothers, J. N. Dill, of Santa Anna, Cal., and Edward S. Dill, of Minnesota,
survive.