Mr. Robert McCreery died 1919

MCCREERY, BURNS, ALLEN, DUNLAP

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 9/16/2019 at 20:09:28

Evening Times-Republican, Friday, Aug 01, 1919, Marshalltown, IA, Page: 8

ROBERT M’CREERY DEAD
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Father of R. W. McCreery Dies at
Muskogee, Okla.
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Friends of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McCreery, 704 West Main Street, will be grieved to learn of the death of the former’s father, Robert McCreery, formerly of this city. Mr. McCreery died of Bright’s disease at 6 o’clock Thursday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. T. Burns, of Muskogee, Oklahoma. Mr. McCreery had suffered with a dreaded disease for a number of months and for most of that time he had been with Mrs. Burns.

The body is expected to reach here Saturday night and the funeral, which will be private, will probably be held at the McCreery home Sunday afternoon.

Mr. McCreery was an Illinois man. He was born in Rushville and was 78 years of age. For many years he was engaged in the lumber business on a large scale at various places in southern states. He closed out his lumber and timber business at Black Rock, Ark. In 1909, and with Mrs. McCreery moved to this city. It was at that time that the Western Grocer Company mills, of which his son is manager, was being developed in its present location and it had underway large remolding and rebuilding work on the property. The elder McCreery took charge of this reconstruction work and remained here for a few years. The warmer months of each year since as an advisor and assistant to his son in the development of canning and manufacturing branches of the mills’ business and in the colder months he had been at Valrico, Fla., where he has been developing to a high state, during the last seven years, a citrus fruit orchard.

Mr. McCreery was liked and honored by his associates and those who worked with him here and his death will be much regretted by those who knew him and the many friends of the McCreery family.

Mrs. McCreery died a year after Mr. and Mrs. McCreery came here. One son, Dr. R. F. McCreery of Wahoo, Nebr. survives Mr. McCreery in addition to his son living here and Mrs. Burns. Two sisters, Mrs. Helen Dunlap, of Mt. Sterling, Ill. And Mrs. Josie Allen of Chicago, and one brother, Charles McCreery, of Rushville, Ill., also survive him.