Birth date of the 10th, and place of birth in Taney County courtesy, along with links to parents, of Findagrave Contributor Genealogical Researcher 53, 8 February 2016. Thank you so much!
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THE CITIZEN - FLORENCE, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO, USA - November 27, 1947
ALVA M. HARRISON
Funeral services for Alva Marion Harrison were held Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 25, 1947, at 1:30 in the Holt Chapel with Rev. Paul Shipman officiating. The chapel was filled with sorrowing relatives and friends who gathered to pay final respects and the casket was banked with many beautiful flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Spalding of Canon City, accompanied by Mrs. Eleanor McCandless at the organ, very beautifully sang "In the Garden," "Sometime We'll Understand" and "When They Ring Those Golden Bells."
Harrison, late of 619 North Pikes Peak Ave., passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 23rd, at a Canon City hospital, following a 52-hour illness of lobar pneumonia. He had been in failing health for four years. Born Dec. 10, 1888, in Carroll county, Mo., he came to Colorado in 1911 from Kinsley, Kansas, and has been in Florence since that time. He has worked for a number of years as a cement finisher and plasterer, and was a member of the Foursquare church.
On Nov. 25, 1912, he married Della Palmer, who survives him.
Other survivors are one son, Lee H. Harrison of Florence; three grand children; his mother, Mrs. Mary Powell of Florence; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Blankenship of Denver and Mrs. Effie Williamson of Los Angeles, Calif.; and one brother, Robert C. Harrison of Pueblo; besides several nieces and nephews.
Pall bearers were Joe Fabrizio, Dean Johnston, Ed Westwater, Edwin Beadles, Wiley Bowen and Roy Keller.
Interment was made in Union Highland Cemetery.
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THE CITIZEN - FLORENCE, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO, USA - November 27, 1947
ALVA M. HARRISON
Funeral services for Alva Marion Harrison were held Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 25, 1947, at 1:30 in the Holt Chapel with Rev. Paul Shipman officiating. The chapel was filled with sorrowing relatives and friends who gathered to pay final respects and the casket was banked with many beautiful flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Spalding of Canon City, accompanied by Mrs. Eleanor McCandless at the organ, very beautifully sang "In the Garden," "Sometime We'll Understand" and "When They Ring Those Golden Bells."
Harrison, late of 619 North Pikes Peak Ave., passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 23rd, at a Canon City hospital, following a 52-hour illness of lobar pneumonia. He had been in failing health for four years. Born Dec. 10, 1888, in Carroll county, Mo., he came to Colorado in 1911 from Kinsley, Kansas, and has been in Florence since that time. He has worked for a number of years as a cement finisher and plasterer, and was a member of the Foursquare church.
On Nov. 25, 1912, he married Della Palmer, who survives him.
Other survivors are one son, Lee H. Harrison of Florence; three grand children; his mother, Mrs. Mary Powell of Florence; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Blankenship of Denver and Mrs. Effie Williamson of Los Angeles, Calif.; and one brother, Robert C. Harrison of Pueblo; besides several nieces and nephews.
Pall bearers were Joe Fabrizio, Dean Johnston, Ed Westwater, Edwin Beadles, Wiley Bowen and Roy Keller.
Interment was made in Union Highland Cemetery.
Birth date of the 10th, and place of birth in Taney County courtesy, along with links to parents, of Findagrave Contributor Genealogical Researcher 53, 8 February 2016. Thank you so much!
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THE CITIZEN - FLORENCE, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO, USA - November 27, 1947
ALVA M. HARRISON
Funeral services for Alva Marion Harrison were held Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 25, 1947, at 1:30 in the Holt Chapel with Rev. Paul Shipman officiating. The chapel was filled with sorrowing relatives and friends who gathered to pay final respects and the casket was banked with many beautiful flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Spalding of Canon City, accompanied by Mrs. Eleanor McCandless at the organ, very beautifully sang "In the Garden," "Sometime We'll Understand" and "When They Ring Those Golden Bells."
Harrison, late of 619 North Pikes Peak Ave., passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 23rd, at a Canon City hospital, following a 52-hour illness of lobar pneumonia. He had been in failing health for four years. Born Dec. 10, 1888, in Carroll county, Mo., he came to Colorado in 1911 from Kinsley, Kansas, and has been in Florence since that time. He has worked for a number of years as a cement finisher and plasterer, and was a member of the Foursquare church.
On Nov. 25, 1912, he married Della Palmer, who survives him.
Other survivors are one son, Lee H. Harrison of Florence; three grand children; his mother, Mrs. Mary Powell of Florence; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Blankenship of Denver and Mrs. Effie Williamson of Los Angeles, Calif.; and one brother, Robert C. Harrison of Pueblo; besides several nieces and nephews.
Pall bearers were Joe Fabrizio, Dean Johnston, Ed Westwater, Edwin Beadles, Wiley Bowen and Roy Keller.
Interment was made in Union Highland Cemetery.
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THE CITIZEN - FLORENCE, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADO, USA - November 27, 1947
ALVA M. HARRISON
Funeral services for Alva Marion Harrison were held Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 25, 1947, at 1:30 in the Holt Chapel with Rev. Paul Shipman officiating. The chapel was filled with sorrowing relatives and friends who gathered to pay final respects and the casket was banked with many beautiful flowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Spalding of Canon City, accompanied by Mrs. Eleanor McCandless at the organ, very beautifully sang "In the Garden," "Sometime We'll Understand" and "When They Ring Those Golden Bells."
Harrison, late of 619 North Pikes Peak Ave., passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 23rd, at a Canon City hospital, following a 52-hour illness of lobar pneumonia. He had been in failing health for four years. Born Dec. 10, 1888, in Carroll county, Mo., he came to Colorado in 1911 from Kinsley, Kansas, and has been in Florence since that time. He has worked for a number of years as a cement finisher and plasterer, and was a member of the Foursquare church.
On Nov. 25, 1912, he married Della Palmer, who survives him.
Other survivors are one son, Lee H. Harrison of Florence; three grand children; his mother, Mrs. Mary Powell of Florence; two sisters, Mrs. Henry Blankenship of Denver and Mrs. Effie Williamson of Los Angeles, Calif.; and one brother, Robert C. Harrison of Pueblo; besides several nieces and nephews.
Pall bearers were Joe Fabrizio, Dean Johnston, Ed Westwater, Edwin Beadles, Wiley Bowen and Roy Keller.
Interment was made in Union Highland Cemetery.
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