Cormaney, Arch (1889-1961)

CORMANEY, JANSEN, HAGAR, HARMS

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 7/15/2015 at 10:05:40

Daily Freeman Journal, Saturday, August 26, 1961

Arch Cormaney, 71, widely known Kamrar resident, died at 5:15 a.m. today at the Hamilton county hospital. He had been in ill health for several years.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Presbyterian church east of Kamrar, preceded by a brief service at 1:30 at the family home in Kamrar. The Rev Loren Parman will officiate with burial in the Presbyterian cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Foster funeral home until 12 o'clock noon Monday when it will be taken to the family home.

Arch Cormaney, son of Elmer and Ida Cormaney, was born Oct. 6, 1889, in Nebraska. When he was two and one-half years old, he moved with his parents to the Kamrar community where he was reared and educated.

He was united in marriage March 17, 1817, to Hilka Jansen, and Mr and Mrs. Cormaney farmed in the Kamrar-Blairsburg-Webster City vicinity until two years ago when they retired and moved into Kamrar, the family home since. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and one son: Ina Cormaney, Webster City, Lester Cormaney, Webster City, Mrs Robert (Vera) Hagar, Humboldt, and Mrs. Herbert L. (Mary Ann) Harms of Alden; two grandsons, three granddaughters; one brother, Frank Cormaney, Dumont, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by one son who died in infancy, by his parents, one sister and two brothers.

Mr. Cormaney was a member of the Presbyterian church east of Kamrar.