Harry D. Orr (1937)
FEELY, FOSTER, ORR, WILSON
Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 5/11/2007 at 17:27:42
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, September 10, 1937HARRY ORR KILLED WHEN HIT BY AUTO
Run Down While Crossing Street at Kansas City
Harry Orr, 56 years old, widely known Madison county farmer was instantly killed last Friday night in Kansas City, Mo., when he was struck by an automobile while crossing a street there.
The driver of the car was Lawrence Brentz, 22-years-old of Kansas City. He told police that Orr stepped into the path of his car too suddenly for him to stop. He said the victim had started across the street toward a filling station. Brentz was being held by police pending an investigation.
Orr, who has been operating the Caleb Robbins farm in the Holliwell neighborhood, was widely known here, largely through his activities in the promotion of rodeos. It was a rodeo in Kansas City that had taken him there, together with his son, Claude Orr.
Mr. Orr is survived by his wife; two sons, Claude and Hal Orr; and a daughter, Kathryn Orr.
Funeral services will be held today (Tuesday) at 3 p.m. from the Church of Christ in Winterset, in charge of the pastor, the Rev. H. L. Olmstead. Burial will be made in the Winterset cemetery.
HARRY D. ORR
Harry D. Orr, son of George and Katherine Orr was born in Madison county, October 22, 1880, was married to Mabel Wilson, December 3, 1909 and to this union was born two sons, Claude and Hal and one daughter, Katherine, and by a previous marriage two daughters, Mildred of Chicago and Helen who died in infancy. He is also survived by two brothers, Frank and Robert and two sisters, Mrs. A. L. Foster and Mrs. Clara Feely, both of Denver, Colorado.
Mr. Orr spent his entire life in Madison county except five years which were spent in Colorado.
Harry was loved and respected by all who knew him, and will be missed by the entire community.
Funeral services were conducted from the Church of Christ at 3:00 o'clock Tuesday by Rev. H. L. Olmstead and burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.
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