CHILDREN:
Anne Kerns Booton
Margaret Welker Booton
Orland Howson Booton, Jr.
Helen Virginia Booton
O. H. Booton, 83, Retired Editor, Dies
Orland H. Booton, 83, a retired newspaper editor and publisher, and native of Gallipolis died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a Macon, Ga., hospital. Mr. Booton had recently suffered a stroke.
Mr. Booton was born here in October 1877, the son of the late Ira W. and Elisabeth Welker Booton. His father a Civil War veteran was the founder of the Gallia Times and Mr. Booton started his newspaper career on that paper. He later worked on an East Liverpool newspaper and then became publisher and editor of the Mingo Republican at Williamson, W. Va., and was associated with several other West Virginia newspapers.
He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been an officer in the Gallipolis company commanded by the late Capt. Verne Boyle. Just this past summer, Mr. Booton wrote a series of letters to this newspaper which related many interesting facts about his early life in Gallipolis, and the journalists of his period. He was a contemporary of the late Squire Mauck and Harry R. Hurn.
Mr. Booton is survived by one sister, Mrs. Floyd Major of Charleston, W. Va. Brothers and sisters who preceded him were Chauncey, Ira, James, Mrs. Jesse Henke, and Mrs. J. Sherman Porter, Sr.
His first marriage was to the former Maude Kerns, and she preceded him in death. Children who survive that union are Mrs. Alle (Ann) Cole of Macon, Ga., Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Osborne of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Angelo (Helen) Dizens of California and Orland Jr., of Charleston, W. VA. There are seven grandchildren. He is survived by his second wife, Mary, a former Spencer, W. Va. Teacher.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Wetherholt-Elliott-Sanders Funeral Home, Rev. Warren H. Wilson will officiate and burial will be in Mound Hill cemetery.
Local relatives who survive are Mrs. Carolyn Butterfield and Mrs. Crilla Stiverson, nieces, Senator J. Sherman Porter a nephew and a sister-in-law, Mrs.Stella Booton.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
May 5, 1961, page 1
Gallipolis, Ohio
Anne Kerns Booton
Margaret Welker Booton
Orland Howson Booton, Jr.
Helen Virginia Booton
O. H. Booton, 83, Retired Editor, Dies
Orland H. Booton, 83, a retired newspaper editor and publisher, and native of Gallipolis died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a Macon, Ga., hospital. Mr. Booton had recently suffered a stroke.
Mr. Booton was born here in October 1877, the son of the late Ira W. and Elisabeth Welker Booton. His father a Civil War veteran was the founder of the Gallia Times and Mr. Booton started his newspaper career on that paper. He later worked on an East Liverpool newspaper and then became publisher and editor of the Mingo Republican at Williamson, W. Va., and was associated with several other West Virginia newspapers.
He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been an officer in the Gallipolis company commanded by the late Capt. Verne Boyle. Just this past summer, Mr. Booton wrote a series of letters to this newspaper which related many interesting facts about his early life in Gallipolis, and the journalists of his period. He was a contemporary of the late Squire Mauck and Harry R. Hurn.
Mr. Booton is survived by one sister, Mrs. Floyd Major of Charleston, W. Va. Brothers and sisters who preceded him were Chauncey, Ira, James, Mrs. Jesse Henke, and Mrs. J. Sherman Porter, Sr.
His first marriage was to the former Maude Kerns, and she preceded him in death. Children who survive that union are Mrs. Alle (Ann) Cole of Macon, Ga., Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Osborne of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Angelo (Helen) Dizens of California and Orland Jr., of Charleston, W. VA. There are seven grandchildren. He is survived by his second wife, Mary, a former Spencer, W. Va. Teacher.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Wetherholt-Elliott-Sanders Funeral Home, Rev. Warren H. Wilson will officiate and burial will be in Mound Hill cemetery.
Local relatives who survive are Mrs. Carolyn Butterfield and Mrs. Crilla Stiverson, nieces, Senator J. Sherman Porter a nephew and a sister-in-law, Mrs.Stella Booton.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
May 5, 1961, page 1
Gallipolis, Ohio
CHILDREN:
Anne Kerns Booton
Margaret Welker Booton
Orland Howson Booton, Jr.
Helen Virginia Booton
O. H. Booton, 83, Retired Editor, Dies
Orland H. Booton, 83, a retired newspaper editor and publisher, and native of Gallipolis died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a Macon, Ga., hospital. Mr. Booton had recently suffered a stroke.
Mr. Booton was born here in October 1877, the son of the late Ira W. and Elisabeth Welker Booton. His father a Civil War veteran was the founder of the Gallia Times and Mr. Booton started his newspaper career on that paper. He later worked on an East Liverpool newspaper and then became publisher and editor of the Mingo Republican at Williamson, W. Va., and was associated with several other West Virginia newspapers.
He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been an officer in the Gallipolis company commanded by the late Capt. Verne Boyle. Just this past summer, Mr. Booton wrote a series of letters to this newspaper which related many interesting facts about his early life in Gallipolis, and the journalists of his period. He was a contemporary of the late Squire Mauck and Harry R. Hurn.
Mr. Booton is survived by one sister, Mrs. Floyd Major of Charleston, W. Va. Brothers and sisters who preceded him were Chauncey, Ira, James, Mrs. Jesse Henke, and Mrs. J. Sherman Porter, Sr.
His first marriage was to the former Maude Kerns, and she preceded him in death. Children who survive that union are Mrs. Alle (Ann) Cole of Macon, Ga., Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Osborne of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Angelo (Helen) Dizens of California and Orland Jr., of Charleston, W. VA. There are seven grandchildren. He is survived by his second wife, Mary, a former Spencer, W. Va. Teacher.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Wetherholt-Elliott-Sanders Funeral Home, Rev. Warren H. Wilson will officiate and burial will be in Mound Hill cemetery.
Local relatives who survive are Mrs. Carolyn Butterfield and Mrs. Crilla Stiverson, nieces, Senator J. Sherman Porter a nephew and a sister-in-law, Mrs.Stella Booton.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
May 5, 1961, page 1
Gallipolis, Ohio
Anne Kerns Booton
Margaret Welker Booton
Orland Howson Booton, Jr.
Helen Virginia Booton
O. H. Booton, 83, Retired Editor, Dies
Orland H. Booton, 83, a retired newspaper editor and publisher, and native of Gallipolis died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in a Macon, Ga., hospital. Mr. Booton had recently suffered a stroke.
Mr. Booton was born here in October 1877, the son of the late Ira W. and Elisabeth Welker Booton. His father a Civil War veteran was the founder of the Gallia Times and Mr. Booton started his newspaper career on that paper. He later worked on an East Liverpool newspaper and then became publisher and editor of the Mingo Republican at Williamson, W. Va., and was associated with several other West Virginia newspapers.
He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been an officer in the Gallipolis company commanded by the late Capt. Verne Boyle. Just this past summer, Mr. Booton wrote a series of letters to this newspaper which related many interesting facts about his early life in Gallipolis, and the journalists of his period. He was a contemporary of the late Squire Mauck and Harry R. Hurn.
Mr. Booton is survived by one sister, Mrs. Floyd Major of Charleston, W. Va. Brothers and sisters who preceded him were Chauncey, Ira, James, Mrs. Jesse Henke, and Mrs. J. Sherman Porter, Sr.
His first marriage was to the former Maude Kerns, and she preceded him in death. Children who survive that union are Mrs. Alle (Ann) Cole of Macon, Ga., Mrs. Robert (Margaret) Osborne of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Angelo (Helen) Dizens of California and Orland Jr., of Charleston, W. VA. There are seven grandchildren. He is survived by his second wife, Mary, a former Spencer, W. Va. Teacher.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Wetherholt-Elliott-Sanders Funeral Home, Rev. Warren H. Wilson will officiate and burial will be in Mound Hill cemetery.
Local relatives who survive are Mrs. Carolyn Butterfield and Mrs. Crilla Stiverson, nieces, Senator J. Sherman Porter a nephew and a sister-in-law, Mrs.Stella Booton.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
May 5, 1961, page 1
Gallipolis, Ohio
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