Lanphere, Harry Faucett 1870-1931

LANPHERE, GRINNELL, WOOD, FOLKER, WALLACE, SWISHER, SEYDEL

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/12/2012 at 13:42:13

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Nov. 17, 1931

FUNERAL IS HELD HERE
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Services for Harry F. Lanphere Are Held in Community Where He lived So Long
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HE DIED IN DES MOINES SATURDAY MORNING
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Mr. Lanphere Was One of the Organizers and First Cashier of Citizens National Bank
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It is hard to realize that Harry Lanphere isn't with us any more. He was so alive, so vital, so interested in his friends and in the activities of any community where he happened to live that it doesn't seem possible that all this genial personality is gone from this earth.

But, however it may seem, Harry Lanphere's funeral was held Monday afternoon from the Snyder Bros. parlors and burial was made in Hazelwood cemetery. He died Saturday morning at 7 o'clock in Des Moines, where he has been making his home for some years. He was only 61 years old, his birthday falling on Armistice day, Nov. 11.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Paul Jackson of Sibley. The pall bearers, all directors of the A.O.U.W., with which Harry had been associated as special farm representative were W.H. Stowell of Des Moines, Fred Walton of Des Moines, E.P. Barringer of Ruthven, J.M. Krewson of Bloomfield, W.R. Novinger of Des Moines, and Allen Beck of Mason City.

Harry Faucett Lanphere was born in Dixon, Iowa, a suburb of Davenport, in 1870, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lanphere. In 1883 the family moved to Grinnell and here Harry grew to manhood and spent the greater part of his active life. He had a strong inclination toward business and cut his high school course short by a few weeks to go to work for the old First National bank. He was active in the organization of the Citizens National bank in 1904, and was its first cashier, serving in that capacity for 12 years. Later he was in the insurance business on a large scale and when the World war came on he spent several months as a Red Cross worker in Anniston, Ga., being one of a very considerable group of Grinnell men engaged in that form of war activity.

After the war, in 1920, he moved to Farmington as cashier of the Farmington State bank and since 1928 he had been with the A.O.U.W., being very successful and happy in his work, for which he was exceptionally well fitted by experience and natural ability.

He was married Nov. 26, 1891, to Kate Grinnell, a niece of Hon. J.B. Grinnell, the founder of this community. To them were born two daughters, Pauline, now Mrs. John R. Wood of Berkeley, Calif., and Katharine, Mrs. Edwin L. Folker of Farmington. He is survived by his wife and daughters, also by three grandchildren, Mary Jane Wood and Dean and Jack Folker and by three sisters, Mrs. S.F. Wallace of Newburg, Ore., Mrs. C.A. Swisher fo Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. F.E. Seydel of Fredonia, N.Y. On account of the great distances, Mrs. Lanphere and Mrs. Folker were the only relatives able to come to Grinnell for the funeral.

Harry Lanphere was a natural booster and mixer and friend maker. He gravitated naturally into any sort of activity which looked toward the building up of his home community and he was at the head of many such movements here. While Grinnell people have not seen him in a long time, his short, active figure, his ready friendliness and his warm handclasp will not soon be forgotten in the city where he lived so long. While in Grinnell he was a leader in the Elks lodge and he was aslo active in the Shrine.