Mournful Music Mark's Funeral For Bandsman - John Farkas attended his last session of the Hungarian Gypsy Band of Dayton yesterday afternoon but he did not pick up his clarinet, cimbalon or taro-gato. Four musicians bowed sentimental, Hungarian farewell tunes as the body of Mr. Farkas lay in a casket over a grave at Woodside Cemetery. The Middletonian, a native of Austria-Hungary, had been a member of the band for 27 years. Before his sudden death last Sunday he had asked that his funeral ceremonies be short and that they feature the band's mournful music. American-Hungarians at the ceremonies said it was an old national custom to play gypsy melodies at funerals...

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