Frank Ricker, 70, retired Rock Island Railway foreman at Underwood, died early Sunday at his residence. He had lived 45 years in Underwood, was a member of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Church and the Modern Woodmen of America Lodge for 38 years.

Surviving are his wife, Caroline; two sons, George of Council Bluffs and Ira of Omaha; two daughters, Mrs. Virgil George of Neola, and Mrs. A.L. Peterson of Omaha; two stepsons, C.H. Hitchcock of Atlantic, and John Hitchcock of Omaha; two step daughters, Mrs. William Ware of Independence, MO, and Mrs. O.L. Van Landingham of Los Angeles and five grandchildren.