Harold Edwin Christy (1904-1937)

CHRISTY, HARTMAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/15/2014 at 22:59:42

From unknown newspaper April 12, 1937

Harold E. Christy, 32, died at his home, 1034 Eleventh street at 9:20 a. m. today, a victim of pneumonia, after an illness of week.

News of the death of this popular young man came as a distinct shock to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances over the county, as well as the member of the family.

Funeral services will be held at the Morfoot Funeral home Wednesday at 2:30 p. m., with Dr. C. D. Loose of the Methodist Episcopal church in charge. Burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

Harold Edwin Christy, youngest son of Jesse M. and Alice R. Christy, was born on a farm near Champaign, Ill., December 19, 1904, and died at his home in Nevada, Iowa, April 12, 1937.

He was a child of two years when the family came from Illinois and located on a farm between Maxwell and Cambridge in March, 1906. There they lived for eleven years and in 1917 moved to Nevada, where the family home has since been.

Harold attended the Nevada schools, worked in Nevada for a time, engaged in a grocery business for himself for a year or so, then closed out and went to Detroit where he spent about a year after which he returned to Nevada and has been a popular clerk in the Freeland Grocery for the past nine years or more.

He was united in marriage on December 7, 1930 to Miss Barbara Hartman and she with the one son, Phillip Milton age 5 years survives him. He also leaves his father Jesse M. Christy of 1122 Seventh street, Nevada, brothers Artie M. of Maxwell, Freeman and Jesse of near Nevada and Herbert of Ames, and his two sisters, Mrs. Roy Alexander and Mrs. Lee Alexander of near Nevada. One sister died in infancy during the time the family lived in Illinois. The mother died less [a year ago in June, 1936.]*

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: The clipping of the obituary cuts off abruptly and the end of the sentence in brackets in a reasonable conjecture.