Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1920 — FUNERAL OF W. E. HARRY. [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL OF W. E. HARRY.

The funeral of W. E. Hany whose death we noted in our last issue, was held at the U. B. Church on last Saturday at 2:00 p. m. the Rev. Sickafoose, former pastot, now of South Bend, officiating, assisted by Rev. Borkert. The church was crowded with friends and the funeral conducted by the Knights of Pythias of which order deceased had been a prominent member for years. In respect to Mr. Harry’s memory and his long residence and active work as a business man in the community, all places of business were closed during the funeral services. It was their last, silent tribute to their former associate. Those who attended the funeral from away were his sons, Elwood and family, of Chicago; and Clifford of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his sister, Mrs. Stubbs, and husband of Maryland. The interment was in the Brook Mausoleum. The audience was deeply moved at the reference to the losses of this family by death within the past two years, as one son, a soldier, gave his life during the war, another passed away but a few months ago, and following ion this came the death of the father. Serious illness has come to all but the mother during the time, and in this hour of their bereavement, the stricken family have the deepest sympathy of this entire community.

OBITUARY.

William Elwood Harry was born on July 16, 1857, in Harford county, Maryland, where he spent the first twenty-five years of his life on his father’s farm. On May 13, 1884, he was married to Priscilla McCoy of Harford county, Maryland, and in 1895 he moved with his family to Brook, where he has lived ever since. He died at his home in Brook, on Thursday, February 26, 1920, aged 62 years, 7 months and 10 days. He leaves a wife, one daughter, Mrs. Bruce Beagley, of Brook, two sons, Gifford, of Tulsa, Okla., and Elwood of Chicago, one brother, Joel Harry and two sisters, Mrs. Stubbs and Mrs. Osborn Heaps of Delta, Maryland, and three grand children. — Brook Reporter.