Orr, Grace Douglass 1882-1962

ORR, GREENE, DOUGLASS

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 9/3/2014 at 14:18:26

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Monday, Aug. 27, 1962

RITES HELD AT
HERRICK CHAPEL
FOR GRACE ORR

Mrs. Grace D. Orr, resident of Pearson Hall at Mayflower Home, died Thursday evening at a local hospital where she had been a patient for the past week.

Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from Herrick Chapel, Grinnell College, with Dr. Winston L. King and the Rev. Ralph Beebe, officiating. Following cremation, interment was in Hazelwood cemetery with James-Schalinske Funeral Home in charge.

The daughter of Truman O. and Maria Greene Douglass, she was born at Osage, Iowa. At the age of one year she came with her parents to Grinnell. She graduated from the Grinnell public schools and also from Grinnell College with the class of 1902.

She was united in marriage with *H. Winnett Orr on Sept. 7th, 1904, at Grinnell, by her father, the Rev. Truman O. Douglass. Following their marriage they moved to Lincoln, Neb., where Mr. Orr practiced medicine until his death in October of 1956. In 1958, Mrs. Orr moved to Grinnell and had made her home at Mayflower Home.

She was a member of the First Congregational church and Phi Beta Kappa at Grinnell College.

Mrs. Orr is survived by her children: Dr. Douglass O. Orr of Seattle, Wash.; R. Willard Orr of Denver, Colo.; also Gwenith O. Sheldon of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Dorothy O. Klein of State College, Pa.; and Mrs. Josephine O. Danielson of Lincoln, Neb. Also surviving are 3 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband, four brothers and (unreadable....).
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*HIRAM WINNETT ORR
Born at West Newton, Pa., on March 17, 1877 and died October 11, 1956 at Rochester, Minn. Buried Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA

He was an orthopedic surgeon who was born in Pennsylvania, raised and lived the rest of his life in Nebraska. More than any other person, Orr was responsible for the invention of the plaster casts method for the treatment of broken bones.