Orville was the 4th of six children and the 2nd son of Norton Henry Messenger and Clara Belle Allen. His siblings: Lavera Adah, Lee Allen, Erna Belle, Thomas William and Frederick Glenn.
Orville did not graduate from high school (the 1940 census records that he attended school till the 11th grade) but the 1910 census shows he was not attending school but rather was earning wages in a print shop. He was 15 at that time.
Orville's cousins remember a good-time loving person, always ready to party and often with a joke or comment that tended to be a little off-color. He was certainly a handsome and charming guy and to that end, Orville definitely charmed Miss Charlotte Emma Stochl, daughter of James Frank Stochl and Anna Clara Moel of Solon, Iowa. They married in his parent's home on January 10, 1917 in Wellman.
After he married, Orville worked in Wellman at a lumber yard, then became the manager of a lumber yard in Downey, but eventually found steady work as a printer in Newton and moved his family there in about 1920. The job he accepted was at Allen Printing Company where he worked for 60 years. He lived in Newton rest of his days.
Orville and Charlotte had four children: Helen Janet [Mrs. Gerald K. Van Dyke]; Marian Charlotte [Mrs. T. R. Smith]; Maurice Orville [Geraldine Martha Keith]; Cyril James [Laura Louise Boyer]. Orville's wife divorced him in about 1936.
Orville did not graduate from high school (the 1940 census records that he attended school till the 11th grade) but the 1910 census shows he was not attending school but rather was earning wages in a print shop. He was 15 at that time.
Orville's cousins remember a good-time loving person, always ready to party and often with a joke or comment that tended to be a little off-color. He was certainly a handsome and charming guy and to that end, Orville definitely charmed Miss Charlotte Emma Stochl, daughter of James Frank Stochl and Anna Clara Moel of Solon, Iowa. They married in his parent's home on January 10, 1917 in Wellman.
After he married, Orville worked in Wellman at a lumber yard, then became the manager of a lumber yard in Downey, but eventually found steady work as a printer in Newton and moved his family there in about 1920. The job he accepted was at Allen Printing Company where he worked for 60 years. He lived in Newton rest of his days.
Orville and Charlotte had four children: Helen Janet [Mrs. Gerald K. Van Dyke]; Marian Charlotte [Mrs. T. R. Smith]; Maurice Orville [Geraldine Martha Keith]; Cyril James [Laura Louise Boyer]. Orville's wife divorced him in about 1936.
Orville was the 4th of six children and the 2nd son of Norton Henry Messenger and Clara Belle Allen. His siblings: Lavera Adah, Lee Allen, Erna Belle, Thomas William and Frederick Glenn.
Orville did not graduate from high school (the 1940 census records that he attended school till the 11th grade) but the 1910 census shows he was not attending school but rather was earning wages in a print shop. He was 15 at that time.
Orville's cousins remember a good-time loving person, always ready to party and often with a joke or comment that tended to be a little off-color. He was certainly a handsome and charming guy and to that end, Orville definitely charmed Miss Charlotte Emma Stochl, daughter of James Frank Stochl and Anna Clara Moel of Solon, Iowa. They married in his parent's home on January 10, 1917 in Wellman.
After he married, Orville worked in Wellman at a lumber yard, then became the manager of a lumber yard in Downey, but eventually found steady work as a printer in Newton and moved his family there in about 1920. The job he accepted was at Allen Printing Company where he worked for 60 years. He lived in Newton rest of his days.
Orville and Charlotte had four children: Helen Janet [Mrs. Gerald K. Van Dyke]; Marian Charlotte [Mrs. T. R. Smith]; Maurice Orville [Geraldine Martha Keith]; Cyril James [Laura Louise Boyer]. Orville's wife divorced him in about 1936.
Orville did not graduate from high school (the 1940 census records that he attended school till the 11th grade) but the 1910 census shows he was not attending school but rather was earning wages in a print shop. He was 15 at that time.
Orville's cousins remember a good-time loving person, always ready to party and often with a joke or comment that tended to be a little off-color. He was certainly a handsome and charming guy and to that end, Orville definitely charmed Miss Charlotte Emma Stochl, daughter of James Frank Stochl and Anna Clara Moel of Solon, Iowa. They married in his parent's home on January 10, 1917 in Wellman.
After he married, Orville worked in Wellman at a lumber yard, then became the manager of a lumber yard in Downey, but eventually found steady work as a printer in Newton and moved his family there in about 1920. The job he accepted was at Allen Printing Company where he worked for 60 years. He lived in Newton rest of his days.
Orville and Charlotte had four children: Helen Janet [Mrs. Gerald K. Van Dyke]; Marian Charlotte [Mrs. T. R. Smith]; Maurice Orville [Geraldine Martha Keith]; Cyril James [Laura Louise Boyer]. Orville's wife divorced him in about 1936.
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