"G. Frank Freer, 85, of 613 Utica St. died Thursday, Aug. 30, 1953, after a short illness. For a number of years he was a motorman for the Ithaca Street Railway Company. He retired before the company replaced the streetcars with buses.
He was a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church and of the Amalgamated Association of Street Car and Motor Coach Operators Union.
He is survived by two sons, Raymond R. Freer and L. Grant Freer, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Lewis Jansen, all of Ithaca."

Obituary of G. Frank Freer, Ithaca Journal, July 31, 1953, 3.