WM. D. M’CULLAM DIES MONDAY A.M.
The Homer Enterprise
Thursday, July 21, 1938
William David McCullam, 57, well-known resident of Homer-Ogden neighborhood, died at 9;45 a. m. Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank Hetro, one mile north of Ogden. He had made his home there since an acute illness that begun last May.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. from the Ogden Christian church, of which he was a member. Rev. S. E. Fisher of the University Place Christian church, Urbana, delivered the funeral sermon. The funeral, and interment in G. A. R. cemetery here, were in charge of Homer and Ogden Masonic lodges, Masons bearing the casket and Eastern Star members carrying flowers. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Morehouse and Miss Julia Umbenhowar sang at the rites. Mr. McCullam was born Sept. 17, 1880, near St. Joseph, the son of John M. and Ruth Jane Mead McCullam, and practically his entire life has been spent in this section of Illinois. He graduated from St. Joseph high school and from Thornburn High in Urbana. In his early manhood he was engaged in the mercantile business with his father at Ogden, running the store later when his father became interurban agent at Ogden. For a while he clerked in the men’s department at the Robeson store in Champaign and for a time was an interurban agent in Champaign. For the past 25 years he had lived on a farm at the state road and Route 49, leaving it a few weeks before his death to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Hetro. (3-4 lines not readable) refusing to acknowledge to those near him the seriousness of his illness until he could conceal it no longer. Besides his sister, Mrs. Hetro, he is survived by a brother, James, of Hollywood, Calif., who informed the sister by telephone that he would be unable to attend the funeral; a step-sister Mrs. Blanche Tracy, Champaign; an aunt, Martha Hardin, Dowds, Ia. He was never married. In the passing of Will McCullam the community loses an esteemed citizen. A host of friends will miss his cheery greeting, and the worthwhile conversations with this well-informed gentlemen.
Mr. McCullam was a long and active member of the Masonic and Eastern Star orders, serving as an officer for years at Ogden. (transcribed by Homer Historical Society)
The Homer Enterprise
Thursday, July 21, 1938
William David McCullam, 57, well-known resident of Homer-Ogden neighborhood, died at 9;45 a. m. Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank Hetro, one mile north of Ogden. He had made his home there since an acute illness that begun last May.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. from the Ogden Christian church, of which he was a member. Rev. S. E. Fisher of the University Place Christian church, Urbana, delivered the funeral sermon. The funeral, and interment in G. A. R. cemetery here, were in charge of Homer and Ogden Masonic lodges, Masons bearing the casket and Eastern Star members carrying flowers. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Morehouse and Miss Julia Umbenhowar sang at the rites. Mr. McCullam was born Sept. 17, 1880, near St. Joseph, the son of John M. and Ruth Jane Mead McCullam, and practically his entire life has been spent in this section of Illinois. He graduated from St. Joseph high school and from Thornburn High in Urbana. In his early manhood he was engaged in the mercantile business with his father at Ogden, running the store later when his father became interurban agent at Ogden. For a while he clerked in the men’s department at the Robeson store in Champaign and for a time was an interurban agent in Champaign. For the past 25 years he had lived on a farm at the state road and Route 49, leaving it a few weeks before his death to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Hetro. (3-4 lines not readable) refusing to acknowledge to those near him the seriousness of his illness until he could conceal it no longer. Besides his sister, Mrs. Hetro, he is survived by a brother, James, of Hollywood, Calif., who informed the sister by telephone that he would be unable to attend the funeral; a step-sister Mrs. Blanche Tracy, Champaign; an aunt, Martha Hardin, Dowds, Ia. He was never married. In the passing of Will McCullam the community loses an esteemed citizen. A host of friends will miss his cheery greeting, and the worthwhile conversations with this well-informed gentlemen.
Mr. McCullam was a long and active member of the Masonic and Eastern Star orders, serving as an officer for years at Ogden. (transcribed by Homer Historical Society)
WM. D. M’CULLAM DIES MONDAY A.M.
The Homer Enterprise
Thursday, July 21, 1938
William David McCullam, 57, well-known resident of Homer-Ogden neighborhood, died at 9;45 a. m. Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank Hetro, one mile north of Ogden. He had made his home there since an acute illness that begun last May.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. from the Ogden Christian church, of which he was a member. Rev. S. E. Fisher of the University Place Christian church, Urbana, delivered the funeral sermon. The funeral, and interment in G. A. R. cemetery here, were in charge of Homer and Ogden Masonic lodges, Masons bearing the casket and Eastern Star members carrying flowers. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Morehouse and Miss Julia Umbenhowar sang at the rites. Mr. McCullam was born Sept. 17, 1880, near St. Joseph, the son of John M. and Ruth Jane Mead McCullam, and practically his entire life has been spent in this section of Illinois. He graduated from St. Joseph high school and from Thornburn High in Urbana. In his early manhood he was engaged in the mercantile business with his father at Ogden, running the store later when his father became interurban agent at Ogden. For a while he clerked in the men’s department at the Robeson store in Champaign and for a time was an interurban agent in Champaign. For the past 25 years he had lived on a farm at the state road and Route 49, leaving it a few weeks before his death to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Hetro. (3-4 lines not readable) refusing to acknowledge to those near him the seriousness of his illness until he could conceal it no longer. Besides his sister, Mrs. Hetro, he is survived by a brother, James, of Hollywood, Calif., who informed the sister by telephone that he would be unable to attend the funeral; a step-sister Mrs. Blanche Tracy, Champaign; an aunt, Martha Hardin, Dowds, Ia. He was never married. In the passing of Will McCullam the community loses an esteemed citizen. A host of friends will miss his cheery greeting, and the worthwhile conversations with this well-informed gentlemen.
Mr. McCullam was a long and active member of the Masonic and Eastern Star orders, serving as an officer for years at Ogden. (transcribed by Homer Historical Society)
The Homer Enterprise
Thursday, July 21, 1938
William David McCullam, 57, well-known resident of Homer-Ogden neighborhood, died at 9;45 a. m. Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank Hetro, one mile north of Ogden. He had made his home there since an acute illness that begun last May.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. from the Ogden Christian church, of which he was a member. Rev. S. E. Fisher of the University Place Christian church, Urbana, delivered the funeral sermon. The funeral, and interment in G. A. R. cemetery here, were in charge of Homer and Ogden Masonic lodges, Masons bearing the casket and Eastern Star members carrying flowers. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Morehouse and Miss Julia Umbenhowar sang at the rites. Mr. McCullam was born Sept. 17, 1880, near St. Joseph, the son of John M. and Ruth Jane Mead McCullam, and practically his entire life has been spent in this section of Illinois. He graduated from St. Joseph high school and from Thornburn High in Urbana. In his early manhood he was engaged in the mercantile business with his father at Ogden, running the store later when his father became interurban agent at Ogden. For a while he clerked in the men’s department at the Robeson store in Champaign and for a time was an interurban agent in Champaign. For the past 25 years he had lived on a farm at the state road and Route 49, leaving it a few weeks before his death to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Hetro. (3-4 lines not readable) refusing to acknowledge to those near him the seriousness of his illness until he could conceal it no longer. Besides his sister, Mrs. Hetro, he is survived by a brother, James, of Hollywood, Calif., who informed the sister by telephone that he would be unable to attend the funeral; a step-sister Mrs. Blanche Tracy, Champaign; an aunt, Martha Hardin, Dowds, Ia. He was never married. In the passing of Will McCullam the community loses an esteemed citizen. A host of friends will miss his cheery greeting, and the worthwhile conversations with this well-informed gentlemen.
Mr. McCullam was a long and active member of the Masonic and Eastern Star orders, serving as an officer for years at Ogden. (transcribed by Homer Historical Society)
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