William Henry Warrington 1885-1963

WARRINGTON, GIPSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/4/2011 at 22:14:10

Warrington Rites Set
Funeral services for W. H. Warrington, former Estherville resident who died Monday night in Tucson, Ariz., will be held here Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Christian Church with the Rev. Lester Strubhar to officiate. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the Reese Funeral Chapel after 6 p.m. Sunday until 11 a.m. Tuesday when the body will be taken to lie in state at the church. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, June 15, 1963)

Warrington Rites Will Be Tuesday
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for William Henry Warrington, 77, who died June 11 at 2 a.m. in Tucson, Ariz., of a heart condition.

He was born Dec. 12, 1885, at Buffalo, Mo., the son of Mollie and John Warrington. He received his education in Keosauqua, Iowa, schools. On Aug. 12, 1906, he was married to Ada Gipson at Petersburg, Iowa.

The couple farmed in North Dakota and at Keosauqua before coming to the Estherville area. Mr. Warrington retired twelve years ago after having worked 42 years with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.

He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and of the Estherville Christian Church.

He is survived by his wife, three sons, Kenneth of Orion, Ill.; Francis of Estherville, and Claude of Santa Ana, Calif. Three brothers, Simon of Chester, Montana, Floyd of Keosauqua and Roy of Grover City, Calif., and eight grand children also survive.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a son and two brothers.

Services will be held tomorrow at the Christian Church with the Rev. Lester Strubhar officiating. Family services will be at 12:30 p.m. and public services at 2 p.m. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Reese Funeral Home until 10 a.m. tomorrow when the body will be taken to the church. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, June 17, 1963)