Robert George Newberry

NEWBERRY JANSEN WEAVER FRITSCHE SYMES ROBERTS

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 3/30/2006 at 15:46:40

Mason City Globe Gazette Dec. 15, 1964

R. Newberry funeral set for Friday

The funeral for Robert George Newberry, 61, who died Tuesday at this home on Route 4, Mason City, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Bethel Evangelical United Brethern Church in Manly. The Rev. Harold W. Dellit will officate.

Preceding the funeral, a family prayer service will be held at the Hogan-McKee Colonial Chapel at 12:30 p.m.

Mr. Newberry was born Sept. 30, 1903, at Blakely,
Pa., son of James and Hannah (Roberts) Newberry.
He moved with his parents to a farm near Manly and later farmed on Route 4 Mason City. He had worked on the annual American Crystal Sugar Company campaigns for the last 40 years.

He was married to Virginia Jansen, Sept. 14, 1933, at Owatonna, Minn. Surviving are his wife,
two sons, William Newberry, U.S. Air Force, Bossier, La., and Robert Junior Newberry, North Charleston, S.C., and five grandchildren.

Two brothers, James Newberry, Dearborn Heights, Mich., and Albert Newberry, Riceville, and three sisters, Carrie Weaver, Johnson City, N.Y., Mrs. Walter (Gertrude) Fritsche, Osterhout,Pa., and Mrs. Walter (Pearl) Symes, Manly, also survive.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister.

Pallbearers selected are Emile Gerken, G. C. Bentzin, Harry T. Andersen, Bud Dority, Maynard Larson and Charles Oulman. Mrs. G. C. Benson and Mrs. Harry T. Andersen are in charge of flowers. Merle Dickinson will be soloist, Mrs. Jimmy Benjegerdes, organist.

Burial will be in the Manly cemetery. Visitation at the chapel has been set unitl 12:30 p.m. Friday.