Bernice Mary Orr 1900-1963

ORR, HENDRICKS, KIRBY

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/18/2008 at 07:24:36

Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle; Feb. 7, 1963

MRS. F.T. ORR
Bernice Mary Hendricks Orr, daughter of Julius and Emma Hendricks, was born in Belgium January 3, 1900. She died at Mercy hospital in Iowa City January 27, following emergency surgery, at the age of 63.

With her parents, she came to the United States when she was two years old, and the family settled at Moline, Ill. Later she came to the Brooklyn community where she was married to F.T. Orr. The couple had one son, Frank.

Funeral services were conducted January 30 at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's church, with the Rev. L.H. Mork officiating at the requiem low mass. Interment was in the Brooklyn I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Pallbearers were Hobart Powell, Edgar Buchenau, U.J. Hansen, C.C. Eckland, Philip Eichhorn and Max Clayton. Flower attendants were Mr. and Mrs. James Eichhorn.

Mrs. Orr is survived by her husband; a son, Frank; her father Julius Hendricks of Libertyville, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Roy (Alice) Kirby of Highland Park, Ill.; and three brothers; Frank Hendricks of North Chicago, Ill.; Charles Hendricks of Minneapolis, Minn.; and Albert Hendricks of Waukegan, Ill.