HOLM, George E. 1898-1949

HOLM, MCGOVERN, BARKER, KENNEDY, SLOPPY, CRAFT

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 10/31/2002 at 10:01:08

The Clinton Herald Monday July 18, 1949 p. 10 George E. Holm, 50, 430 Fourteenth avenue, South, was found dead in his home Saturday. The body was taken to the Dalton funeral home where friends may call. The rosary will be recited at the funeral home tonight at 8. Funeral mass will be celebrated in St. Mary's church Tuesday at 9 a.m. Burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Military rites will be conducted at the grave. George E. Holm was born August 14, 1898, in Clinton, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Holm. He was married to Nellie McGovern of Clinton, July 6, 1936, in Chicago. He served in World War I overseas in A Co. Ninth Infantry, Second division. He was wounded in battle July 18, 1917 in Soissons, France, where he spent a year and one half in the hospital. He has been baggageman at the Chiciago and North Western depot for the past 27 years. He was a member of St. Mary's church; the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are his wife, a stepson Eugene J. Kennedy, Patuxent River Base, Md., a daughter, Mrs. Marion Barker, DeWitt, three brothers, Otto, Charles and Walter, Clinton, and two sisters, Mrs. James Sloppy, Clinton, and Mrs. Earl Craft, Fulton. He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, and two brothers.

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