Harry August Munson, 71, 3015 Joplin Ave., died at 10:35 p.m. Thursday at St. John's Medical Center where he had been a patient since June 18. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home Chapel, Webb City. L. O. White, minister, will officiate, with burial in Friends Cemetery, Purcell, Mo. Pallbearers will be Orville Davis, Nolan Bacon, Ed Banani, Floyd Hunter, Joe Myers and Olen Reding. City Service Gas Co. employees will serve as honorary pallbearers. The body will lie in state at Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home until the service hour. Mr. Munson was born Jan. 7, 1904, at Welch, Okla. He had lived in Joplin more than 40 years, moving here from Alba, Mo. He retired from City Service Gas Co. in 1963 after 20 years of service. He served in the Army and was a veteran of World War II. He was a deacon of South Joplin Christian Church. He is survived by his wife, Agnes Munson; two daughters, Mrs. Carol Dean, Carl Junction, and Mrs. Betty Castle, Augusta, Kan., a sister, Mrs. Edith Jacobs, Webb City route 1; a stepsister, Mrs. Chester Lawrence, Alba; a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.
Harry August Munson, 71, 3015 Joplin Ave., died at 10:35 p.m. Thursday at St. John's Medical Center where he had been a patient since June 18. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home Chapel, Webb City. L. O. White, minister, will officiate, with burial in Friends Cemetery, Purcell, Mo. Pallbearers will be Orville Davis, Nolan Bacon, Ed Banani, Floyd Hunter, Joe Myers and Olen Reding. City Service Gas Co. employees will serve as honorary pallbearers. The body will lie in state at Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home until the service hour. Mr. Munson was born Jan. 7, 1904, at Welch, Okla. He had lived in Joplin more than 40 years, moving here from Alba, Mo. He retired from City Service Gas Co. in 1963 after 20 years of service. He served in the Army and was a veteran of World War II. He was a deacon of South Joplin Christian Church. He is survived by his wife, Agnes Munson; two daughters, Mrs. Carol Dean, Carl Junction, and Mrs. Betty Castle, Augusta, Kan., a sister, Mrs. Edith Jacobs, Webb City route 1; a stepsister, Mrs. Chester Lawrence, Alba; a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.
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