Warner, Henry G. 1870-1943

WARNER, MORRIS

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Date: 9/4/2020 at 12:47:28

HENRY G. WARNER CALLED BY DEATH MONDAY MORNING

Rites For Well Known Akron Man Will Be Held Friday

Henry G. Warner, a widely known and respected resident of Akron vicinity for many years, passed away Monday morning, January 11, 1943, in the University Hospital, Iowa City, at the age of 72 years, 8 months and 10 days.

Henry Granville Warner was born April 26, 1870, in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was the son of Burrill and Mary Warner, and the eldest child of the family. They left Virginia and came west to Onawa, Iowa, and later moved to Oto, Iowa, where they engaged in farming.

On January 2, 1894, Mr. Warner was married to Miss Jessie Morris, and to this marriage were born three daughters, Wanda Kistle, of LeMars, Iowa; Gladys Hurt, of Denver, Colo., and Veta Fougner, of Seattle, Wash. They lived in Minnesota three years, returning to Iowa and settled in Akron, where they have resided for the past thirty-five years.

In the early days Mr. Warner operated a dray line in Akron, then engaged in the automobile business and for the past eighteen years has been on a farm, southeast of town.

Due to his failing health, Mr. and Mrs. Warner decided to move to town and had purchased a home here during the first week in December. He was taken very ill the first night they moved in, and was in the Akron Hospital until the day before Christmas, when Mrs. Warner accompanied him to the Iowa City hospital, where he submitted to an operation,, and was convalescing nicely, when stricken in a heart spell.

In his younger life, while living near, Oto, Ia., Mr. Warner united with the Bethel Congregational church.

A man of genial nature and industrious habits, a kind and considerate husband and father, a good and helpful neighbor, he will be missed by numerous friends who extend sympathy to the bereaved relatives.

Mr. Warner is survived by his wife, three daughters, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A granddaughter, Shirley Hurt Van Deventer, of Denver, who formerly made her home with her grandparents, was unable to attend the funeral.

Funeral services will be in the Baptist church here Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. J. Olen Kennell officiating, Mrs. H. Shoulberg acting as organist and Homer Jacoby as soloist. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery. Acting as pallbearers will be Basil Blum, Rollo Baker, Wm. H. Morse, Chas. Allen, H. Rossbach and J. J. Aalfs.

Relatives in attendance from out of town will be Mrs. Warner’s mother, Mrs. Sara Morris; her sister, Mrs. Zuck, and her brothers, Frank, Ralph and Charles Morris.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, January 14, 1943
Akron, Iowa