Dr. Ernst A. Sommer, chief surgeon of the Portland Electric Power company, ex-mayor of Oregon City, ex-member of the Portland
school board, ex-professor of surgery at the University of Oregon medical school, fellow of the American College of Surgeons, of
which he also served as vice-president and governor, died yesterday morning in his 66th year at St. Vincent's hospital.

Funeral services will be at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning from the Church of the Medeleine, Northeast Twenty-third avenue and
Klickitat street, Rev. George Thompson officiating. Burial will be in Mount Calvary cemetery.

Dr. Sommer, ill the last five years had returned ten days ago from san Diego, where he had spent three months.

Born January 27, 1879, in South Bethlehem, Pa., he was educated in public and high schools of Montreal, arriving in Portland
in 1887 to enroll in the Willamette university medical school, from which he was graduated in 1890.

He served in New York hospitals and as ship's physician aboard a trans-Atlantic liner until 1894, when he returned to practice
at Oregon City in partnership with Dr. W. E. Carll. In 1898, at San Francisco, he married Sara Sackett. In 1902, he did
post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, then returned to Oregon City, where he was elected mayor in 1905.

That same year he went to Europe, spending two years in Germany, Austria, France and England, studying foreign methods of
surgery.

In June, 1919, he was appointed chief surgeon of Pepco.

Dr. Sommer was elected a charter member of the American College of Surgeons in 1913. Later he served on its board of
governors, in 1923 being elected first vice-president.

He held active membership in city, county, state, regional and national medical associations, was a member of the staff and of
the board of governors at St. Vincent's hospital, in addition to his work on the University of Oregon medical faculty. He
authored many scientific papers for medical journals and societies.

Shortly after his retirement five years ago from active practice, he donated the Ernst A. Sommer unit to the library of the
University of Oregon medical school. He was also known as a ready counselor to promising younger members of his profession.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sara S. Sommer, 2260 Northwest Everett street, and his nieces, Mrs. Dan P. Hogan, Mrs. Edward F.
Brady and Miss Hermine Albers, all of Portland.

Funeral services were conducted yesterday morning at the Church of the Madeleine, Northeast Twenty-third avenue and Klickitat
street, for Dr. Ernst A. Sommer, 66, chief surgeon of the Portland Electric Power company, ex-member of the Portland school board
and ex-mayor of Oregon City, who died at St. Vincent's hospital Sunday.
Burial was in Mount Calvary cemetery.

Active pallbearers were Dr. Richard F. Berg, Dr. Julius Bildstein, Dr. Harry C. Blair, Earl S. Nelson, George Sullivan and
Gordon Steele.

Honorary pallbearers were J. H. Burgard, Phil Metschan, O. B Coldwell, W. H. Lines, C. R. Peck, Frank H. Ransom, Guy W.
Talbot, Clyde G. Huntley, Phill Grossmayer, Frank Lonergan and Drs. Thomas M. Joyce, Albert Mathieu, C. B. Sabin, John H.
Fitzgibbon, Laurence Selling, Eugene Rockey, Frank R. Menne, Ralph A. Fenton, S. H. Sheldon, T. Homer Coffen, Guy Mount and
Joseph A. Pettit.