Edward Sanford Berry (1959)

BERRY, EWING, GARLAND, JOHNSTON, SWARTZ

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:11

The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri
Monday, May 4, 1959
Page 2, 8

A FORMER MAYOR DIES.

Arkansas City, Kas., May 3 — Edward Sanford Berry, 80, former mayor and city commissioner of Arkansas City, died today.
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The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri
Tuesday, May 5, 1959
Page 8, Column 4

DEATHS OVER KANSAS

Arkansas City — Funeral services for Edward Sanford Berry, 80, former mayor and city commissioner, will be at 2 o’clock this afternoon in the First Methodist church. Interment at Dexter, Kas. He was a widely known retired building contractor.
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The Arkansas City Daily Traveler
Arkansas City, Kansas
Monday, May 4, 1959
Page 2, Columns 5 & 6

E. S. Berry, Former City Official, Dies

Edward Sanford Berry, 602 N. Ninth St., former city commissioner and may, and prominent retired contractor in this vicinity, died a 6 a. m. Sunday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

He was elected a city commissioner in April, 1949, for a four year term. He was elected mayor in April, 1949, and served on year. He was again chosen mayor in April 1953.

Born Nov. 25, 1878, in Madison county, near Winterset, Iowa, he was the son of Joel J. Berry and Mary Euretta Johnston Berry. The Berry family lived at Pratt and Amarillo, moving to Dexter in 1897. Mr. Berry came to Arkansas City from Dexter in 1910. He built many fine churches an business establishments in Arkansas City, Hutchinson, Winfield and Wichita.

E. S. Berry and Icel Myrtle Ewing were married Oct. 14, 1926, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ewing, at Hominy, Okla.

Mr. Berry was a member of the First Methodist church and was a noted Bible scholar.

Survivors included his wife of the home; two daughters, Mrs. John (Marianne) Garland, Wellington, and Mrs. D. V. (Jean) Swartz, Great Bend; two sons, Sanford Berry, Champaign, Ill., and Joel H. Berry, Salina; 10 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by an infant son, Eldon and by nine brothers and sisters.

Mr. Berry will lie in state at the Grant-Elder Funeral Home Monday afternoon and evening until 9 p. m. The casket will be open at the church before the service, but not afterward.

Funeral services will be Tuesday, 2 p. m., in the First Methodist church with Dr. Lyman S. Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Dexter cemetery.
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Transcriber's note: The deceased was born in Madison County per the 1885 Iowa State Census.

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