Harry Charles Balch (1959)

BALCH, CHISMAN, WILKINSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 4/8/2007 at 17:40:37

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 19, 1959

BALCH SERVICE SET HERE FRIDAY

Ashes Being Returned Here For Interment in Family Plot

The ashes of Harry C. Balch of Washington, D. C., whose death occurred June 5 at Toledo, O., will be returned to Winterset for interment. It is planned to hold short service at the family plot here this Friday, Aug. 21st at 2 o'clock.

Mr. Balch was a resident of Winterset for many years, where he was employed as a printer for the Winterset Madisonian.

A native of Anamosa, where he was born Aug. 21, 1891, he was a son of Charles H. and Lilli-Beale Chisman Balch. His mother died when he was 9 years of age. He learned the printing business in Ithaca, N. Y., from an uncle, Dell Balch, who was a lithographer. He went to Perry, Iowa to work when he was 16 years old, and a year later came to Winterset to run the first linotype machine in the Madisonian office.

He lived at Winterset 15 years. He was married to Beulah Wilkinson on Sept. 7, 1910. They were parents of three sons, one of whom, Paul, died in childhood.

In 1925 he received appointment to work in the U. S. Government printing office in Washington, D. C. He was employed there until 1953, when he retired to his home in Maryland, where he had lived for 33 years.

In October, 1958, he and his wife moved to Toledo, where his death occurred.

He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Hyattsville, Md., the Columbia Typographical union, and secretary's chapel. He had been a member of the Christian church for 50 years.

Surviving are his wife; and two sons, Clyde W. Balch of Toledo, Ol, and Bernard R. Balch of Waterloo, Ia.

Funeral services were held June 8 in Toledo.

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