LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, Tuesday, September 6, 1955:
Viola, Wis. - Mrs. Eva B. Harris, 73, died at a Richland Center nursing home Saturday night on her birthday. Funeral services were to be held Tuesday at the Viola Methodist Church with the Rev. Edward H. Zager officiating. Burial was to be in the Viola Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kyser was born in the town of Kickapoo, Sept. 30, 1883. She was married to Alvis Harris Sept. 18, 1902. The family farmed until 1941 when they retired to the village of Viola.
Mrs. Harris was a gold star member of the Viola American Legion Auxiliary. Her son, Burl, missing from Bataan during World War II, died in a Prisoner of War camp July 4, 1942. The Viola American Legion post is named for Harris, the first fatality of World War II, and Hamilton, the first fatality of World War I.
Surviving Ms. Harris are her husband, two daughters, Ms. Lennie (Wilma) Drakes and Mrs. Ival (Verda) Bender, both of Viola, two sons, Gerald of Viola and Lawrence, Sun Prairie; three sisters, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Richland Center; Mrs. Alice Hebbard of Sheldon and Mrs. Edna Hutchinson of Readstown, and two brothers, Frank Kyser of Viola, and James Kyser of Readstown, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Contributor: Mary Knothe Cooney
Viola, Wis. - Mrs. Eva B. Harris, 73, died at a Richland Center nursing home Saturday night on her birthday. Funeral services were to be held Tuesday at the Viola Methodist Church with the Rev. Edward H. Zager officiating. Burial was to be in the Viola Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kyser was born in the town of Kickapoo, Sept. 30, 1883. She was married to Alvis Harris Sept. 18, 1902. The family farmed until 1941 when they retired to the village of Viola.
Mrs. Harris was a gold star member of the Viola American Legion Auxiliary. Her son, Burl, missing from Bataan during World War II, died in a Prisoner of War camp July 4, 1942. The Viola American Legion post is named for Harris, the first fatality of World War II, and Hamilton, the first fatality of World War I.
Surviving Ms. Harris are her husband, two daughters, Ms. Lennie (Wilma) Drakes and Mrs. Ival (Verda) Bender, both of Viola, two sons, Gerald of Viola and Lawrence, Sun Prairie; three sisters, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Richland Center; Mrs. Alice Hebbard of Sheldon and Mrs. Edna Hutchinson of Readstown, and two brothers, Frank Kyser of Viola, and James Kyser of Readstown, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Contributor: Mary Knothe Cooney
LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, Tuesday, September 6, 1955:
Viola, Wis. - Mrs. Eva B. Harris, 73, died at a Richland Center nursing home Saturday night on her birthday. Funeral services were to be held Tuesday at the Viola Methodist Church with the Rev. Edward H. Zager officiating. Burial was to be in the Viola Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kyser was born in the town of Kickapoo, Sept. 30, 1883. She was married to Alvis Harris Sept. 18, 1902. The family farmed until 1941 when they retired to the village of Viola.
Mrs. Harris was a gold star member of the Viola American Legion Auxiliary. Her son, Burl, missing from Bataan during World War II, died in a Prisoner of War camp July 4, 1942. The Viola American Legion post is named for Harris, the first fatality of World War II, and Hamilton, the first fatality of World War I.
Surviving Ms. Harris are her husband, two daughters, Ms. Lennie (Wilma) Drakes and Mrs. Ival (Verda) Bender, both of Viola, two sons, Gerald of Viola and Lawrence, Sun Prairie; three sisters, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Richland Center; Mrs. Alice Hebbard of Sheldon and Mrs. Edna Hutchinson of Readstown, and two brothers, Frank Kyser of Viola, and James Kyser of Readstown, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Contributor: Mary Knothe Cooney
Viola, Wis. - Mrs. Eva B. Harris, 73, died at a Richland Center nursing home Saturday night on her birthday. Funeral services were to be held Tuesday at the Viola Methodist Church with the Rev. Edward H. Zager officiating. Burial was to be in the Viola Cemetery.
Mrs. Harris, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kyser was born in the town of Kickapoo, Sept. 30, 1883. She was married to Alvis Harris Sept. 18, 1902. The family farmed until 1941 when they retired to the village of Viola.
Mrs. Harris was a gold star member of the Viola American Legion Auxiliary. Her son, Burl, missing from Bataan during World War II, died in a Prisoner of War camp July 4, 1942. The Viola American Legion post is named for Harris, the first fatality of World War II, and Hamilton, the first fatality of World War I.
Surviving Ms. Harris are her husband, two daughters, Ms. Lennie (Wilma) Drakes and Mrs. Ival (Verda) Bender, both of Viola, two sons, Gerald of Viola and Lawrence, Sun Prairie; three sisters, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Richland Center; Mrs. Alice Hebbard of Sheldon and Mrs. Edna Hutchinson of Readstown, and two brothers, Frank Kyser of Viola, and James Kyser of Readstown, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Contributor: Mary Knothe Cooney
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