Orpha Ann (Carrell) Harrison

HARRISON, CARRELL, KINKADE, FRANCIS, LOUDENBECK, TOPHAM, HITCHCOCK, HALL, RICE, FRAZIER, JANKY

Posted By: Steve Harrison (email)
Date: 6/6/2008 at 19:38:48

� Adams County Free Press� (Corning, Iowa).
January 9, 1941 (Thursday), Page 11, Column 3, in the �Cromwell� column:

"Funeral services were held at the Congregational church Sunday afternoon [January 5] at 2:30 for Mrs. W[illiam] H[enry] Harrison, 96, who had passed away at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, Dec. 30. The services were in charge of Rev. Royal Montgomery of Grinnell, with music furnished by a mixed quartet. Pall bearers were grandsons of the deceased. Harry, Clyde and Franklin Kinkade, Leroy Francis, John Harrison and Paul Harrison. Mrs. Harrison was a pioneer of Union county, moving here from Illinois in a covered wagon in the year 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison retired from farming in 1904 and spent several years in travel. Mr. Harrison passed away in July, 1921. Surviving are eight children, Elmer E. of Santa Barbara, Calif., Isabelle and Pearl Harrison, and Mrs. Mayme Loudenbeck of Beverly Hills, Calif., Charity Topham of Santa Maria, Calif., Frances Hitchcock of Franklin, Pa., Evelyn Kinkade of Cromwell, and Harry C. Harrison of Council Bluffs. Two sons preceded her in death. Relatives from a distance attending the services were Mrs. Loudenbeck and Miss Isabelle Harrison of California. Harry Harrison and daughter, Catherine and son John and family, all of Council Bluffs, Paul Harrison of Wichita, Kansas, Edwin Hall and son of Lone Tree, Mrs. Erma Rice of Marango, Mrs. Carolyn Frazier of Des Moines, Mrs. Mima Janky of Corning, Harry Kinkade of Creston.� END