Jack Robert Anthony (1939)
ANTHONY, SIMAS
Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 12/26/2005 at 16:04:48
Earlham Library Obituaries
Earlham, Iowa
March 1939JACK ROBERT ANTHONY
Jack Robert, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Anthony was born August 26, 1917 at Earlham, Iowa. His entire life was spent in Earlham and surrounding community where he attended the Earlham School until he quit and enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
His time was up in the Navy August 25, 1938 and since then has been employed by the Bank of America. On October 23, 1937 he was united in marriage to Mary Simas of Point Loma, California. Into this home one son, Rodney Robert, was born. He passed away on March 16, 1939 at the age of 21 years, six months and 19 days. Surviving are his wife and son Rodney, his parents Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Anthony, two brothers Bill and Ted, besides many other relatives and a wide circle of friends.
Rosary was held Monday night, March 20 at Johnson-Saum Mortuary, San Diego, California. Burial at Fort Rosecran National Cemetery Point Loma, California, was with full military honors. Father Donahue of Point Loma, had charge of the services. Nearer My God to Thee and Beautiful Isle of Somewhere was played by the harpist. The Navy Mothers of the Point Loma Club of San Diego, attended in a body.
________________________Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
April 1939JACK ANTHONY, 22, IS DEAD BECAUSE AN OLD MAN WANTED MONEY
For an operation for the removal of a growth on the back of his neck.
Jack, the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Anthony of Earlham, was a night watchman of a San Diego, California, branch of the Bank of America. A clipping from a San Diego paper says in part:
Charged with murder in an attempted bank robbery, Robert Perry, 69, was in city jail last night (Thursday) while police sought further information in his past.
The cold-blooded killing of Jack Anthony, 22, janitor of Logan Heights branch, Bank of America, in Balboa park before dawn yesterday was confessed by Perry, police said.
The aged mining man killed Anthony to obtain the keys to the bank, detectives asserted, but was foiled by alertness of two bank clerks.
Returned from Alaska
Born in the Logan Heights area in 1870, Perry, who had been a mining engineer in Alaska for 40 years, returned near the scene of his birthplace to begin a chain of events which last night left him faced with a possible future in a prison cell.
As Anthony left the bank about 2 a.m. a man, crouching in the darkness, leveled a .32-caliber pistol at his victim. "I forced his into his car and made him drive me around," police quoted Perry as saying. "When we got into the park, somewhere near Seventh ave, and Upas St., he got out of the car. I followed him into a grove of eucalyptus trees."
"Then he lunged at me and struck me. I went down to one knee and then I shot him."
Perry's story, however, didn't jibe with the report of the slaying by Edward A. Dieckmann, crack homicide expert of the police department. Dieckmann said there was no evidence to support Perry's asserted statement that he struggled with Anthony.
'Shot From Behind'
"The killer marched Anthony in to the eucalyptus grove, and shot him from behind," Dieckmann said. "The ground bore no sign of a struggle whatsoever, and the victim's clothing was not disheveled in any way."
Jack is survived by his wife and a seven months old son, Rodney, of San Diego, and his parents Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Anthony and two brothers, Bill and Ted of Earlham. Until five months ago he had been a sailor in the U.S. Navy attached to the U.S.S. Dobbin.
His mother left Earlham Friday morning to be in San Diego for the funeral services. Rosary was held Monday evening and burial with military honors was held at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery Tuesday evening.
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