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Harm Menke Harms

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Harm Menke Harms

Birth
Benson, Woodford County, Illinois, USA
Death
3 May 1955 (aged 84)
Brewster, Putnam County, New York, USA
Burial
Minonk, Woodford County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Harm M. Harms, 84, a lifelong resident of Minonk, died early last night (Wednesday, March 2) at the home of his daughter, Mrs Hilda Wood, at Brewster, N.Y. He had been ill for a long time, and had gone to New York to be with his daughter in November.

Funeral services will be held from the Tallyn-Folkers Memorial Home, in this city, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 5, with the Rev Charles Auerswald, pastor of the Minonk Baptist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Minonk cemetery.

Mr Harms was born in Minonk on May 7, 1870, a son of Menke and Jane Saathoff Harms [Meenke Heeren Harms and Jantje (Jennie) Saathoff Harms]. During his active life he was engaged in farming, and after retiring he became a real estate broker and was active in that business until his last illness.

He was married to Helene Seggerman, at Minonk, on Jan. 6, 1895. She survives with a daughter, Mrs Hilda Wood, of Brewster, N. Y., and a son, Arthur Harms, at home. There is also one sister, Mrs Herman H. Smith of Paris, Ill.


Harm M. Harms, 84, a lifelong resident of Minonk, died early last night (Wednesday, March 2) at the home of his daughter, Mrs Hilda Wood, at Brewster, N.Y. He had been ill for a long time, and had gone to New York to be with his daughter in November.

Funeral services will be held from the Tallyn-Folkers Memorial Home, in this city, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 5, with the Rev Charles Auerswald, pastor of the Minonk Baptist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Minonk cemetery.

Mr Harms was born in Minonk on May 7, 1870, a son of Menke and Jane Saathoff Harms [Meenke Heeren Harms and Jantje (Jennie) Saathoff Harms]. During his active life he was engaged in farming, and after retiring he became a real estate broker and was active in that business until his last illness.

He was married to Helene Seggerman, at Minonk, on Jan. 6, 1895. She survives with a daughter, Mrs Hilda Wood, of Brewster, N. Y., and a son, Arthur Harms, at home. There is also one sister, Mrs Herman H. Smith of Paris, Ill.


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12779736/harm_menke-harms: accessed ), memorial page for Harm Menke Harms (7 May 1870–3 May 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 12779736, citing Minonk Township Cemetery, Minonk, Woodford County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Just Amy (contributor 46506517).