Orson Cornman (1944)

CORNMAN, PRATT, RALPH, CARLSTADT, BRETZ

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/28/2006 at 12:52:38

Winterset Madisonian - Wed., March 15, 1944

ORSON CORNMAN DIES IN NEW YORK

Orson Cornman, formerly of this county, died March 9 at Bellvue hospital in New York City, according to word received here this week.

Mr. Cornman was the son of the late John B. and Ella Pratt Cornman. His mother died when he was a small boy in Winterset, and his father succumbed in 1937 at Wenatchee, Wash.

He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Mable Ralph of New York City, and Mrs. John E. Carlstadt of Edmonds, Wash.; a foster mother, Mrs. Mattie E. Cornman; and two half brothers, Joe and Raymond Bretz of Wenatchee.