ORR, Hattie

ORR, DILLON, DEVRIES, SIBECK, PETERS HORMELL

Posted By: Annette Blake
Date: 9/11/2007 at 13:06:57

1883-1934 Cherokee Archives

Mrs. Fred Orr of Tracy, Minn., passed away at her home at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9, following an illness of a few days duration. Death resulted from complications of influenza and heart trouble. Her age was 51 years and 4 days.

Funeral services were held from the home Thursday, Feb. 11 at 10:00 a.m. Rev. Roy E. Jones of Tracy officiated. The remains were taken to Cherokee, Iowa, for burial.

Hattie A. Dillon Orr was born at Waverly, Ia. Feb 2. 1883. At the age of four her parents moved to Cherokee where she grew to womanhood. She was united in marriage on Oct. 17, 1906 to Fred Orr at Fort Dodge Iowa. To this union two daughters were born, Dorothy (Mrs. Arie DeVries), and Helen Marguerite, still at home. She leaves these and her husband to mourn her going, besides two sisters and three bothers, Mrs. Ella Sibeck, Cherokee, Ia, Mrs. Ray Peters, Marcus IA, Burnett Dillon, Denver, Arthur Dillon, Brownsville, PA, and David Dillon, Cherokee, Ia.

Mrs. Orr was a member of the Congregational Church of Cherokee, and a member of the order of the Eastern Star and the D.A.R. She had a large circle of friends in Tracy who mourn her early death. She was active in the social life of Tracy and the local chaper of the Eastern Star, occupying the chair of Ruth in that chapter at the time of her death.

Mrs. Orr was a charter member of the Captain Comfort Starr Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and one of the officers of the chapter at the time of its organization on March 26, 1924.

She was a direct descendant of Jacob Hormell revolutionary soldier, who served under Captain Robert Sweeney of Washington county, Pennsylvania, in the war.

The D.A.R. organization meant much to Mrs. Orr and nowhere outside of her home circle will her loss be felt more keenly or her passing mourned more sincerely than by the Tracy Daughters of the American Revolution.