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Submitted: 7/17/16 • Approved: 7/22/16 • Last Updated: 7/25/16 • R228558-G0-S3
birth 31-Mar-1892
death 30-May-1951 interred section 8 lot 36
marriage Champaign Co OH 21-Dec-1924 Vernal Leona Beekman to Orla Cleveland Berry
obit-Urbana Daily Citizen 31-May-1951 pg 14
"JACK" BERRY, 59 DIES WEDNESDAY OF LONG ILLNESS
Orla (Jack) Berry, 59, of St. Paris died at 10:30 pm Wednesday in his residence following a fifteen weeks illness.
Born in John township, March 31, 1892, he was the son of McClelland and Loretta Bodey Berry. In his early life he worked with his father as a stone mason. For twenty years he was janitor of the St. Paris schools.
On December 23, 1914 he was married to Vernal Beekman in Johnson township. He was a member of the St. Paris Baptist church and he attended the Millerstown school. The deceased had resided in Champaign county all of his life.
Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. McClelland Berry; the widow, Vernal Berry; one daughter, Mrs. Frances (Camilla) Kessler of St. Paris; three sisters, Mrs. Otto Pence and Mrs. Charles Arbogast, both of St. Paris and Mrs. George Wills of Dayton; and three grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Baker funeral home in St. Paris where services are to be held at 2:30 pm Saturday in charge of Rev. Rex VanCourt, past of the St. Paris Baptist church. Burial is to be made in Spring Grove Cemetery.
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