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Sterling Anderson “Andy” Berry

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Sterling Anderson “Andy” Berry

Birth
Cole County, Missouri, USA
Death
15 Aug 1954 (aged 63)
Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Services 19 Aug 1954

Sterling A. "Andy" Berry & Nora Ellen Ramming were married Feb 10, 1912 in Jefferson City, Cole Co, Missouri. They were divorced ca 1943.

On Nov 18, 1943 Andy Berry married Edna Mae Woolery Nicholson (She had 2 children by a previous marriage.) in Portsmouth, (no county-is an "independent city"), Virginia. They moved to Warsaw, Benton Co, Missouri sometime prior to 1950 when Andy & Edna bought a small hotel and restaurant in downtown Warsaw. Edna Mae died from peritonitis in 1952.

He then married Ruth E. Harbit Kennedy on Feb 12, 1953 in Warsaw, Benton Co, Missouri (per marriage license filed in Bk N, pg 23 in Benton Co, Missouri)

OBIT BENTON COUNTY GUIDE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1954 WARSAW, MO
Andy Berry, 63, proprietor of Warsaw Hotel and Cafe, died at Bothwell Hospital in Sedalia at 10:10 p.m. Sunday. He had been a patient there since Friday and had been in failing health for year.
Before coming to Warsaw, Mr. Berry was a grocer at Sedalia for a number of years.
Born in Russellville, Cole County, July 8, 1891, the son of the late Sterling Price and Margaret Elizabeth Shepard [sic Shepherd] Berry, he was in the grocery business in Sedalia for 23 years, being located at Broadway and Hancock and later at 820 South Engineer. For the past four years he had owned and operated the Warsaw Hotel and Cafe.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church, Warsaw, past Master of AF & AM Lodge, No 236, York Rite bodies, Ararat Shrine, Loyal Order of the Moose, Sedalia Lodge No. 1494.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth, of the home, one daughter, Mrs Margaret Gwinn, Sedalia; one son, Ray Berry, Hamilton; three sisters, Mrs. Clora Ward, and Mrs. Janie Herndon, [Mrs. Bessie Amos?] all of Sedalia; two brothers, Thomas L. Berry, Detroit, Mich., and Ivan Berry, Sedalia and ten grandchildren.
Funeral services were at the Gillespie Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by the Rev. Van Horn, Warsaw. Russell Maug, staff soloist, sang in "In the Garden" and "Beyond the Sunset" accompanied by Lillian Fox on the organ. Pallbearers were M. D. Weathers, J. H. Gwinn, George Emo, Cal Rodgers, Herbert Mason and Bill Castlebury. Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Services 19 Aug 1954

Sterling A. "Andy" Berry & Nora Ellen Ramming were married Feb 10, 1912 in Jefferson City, Cole Co, Missouri. They were divorced ca 1943.

On Nov 18, 1943 Andy Berry married Edna Mae Woolery Nicholson (She had 2 children by a previous marriage.) in Portsmouth, (no county-is an "independent city"), Virginia. They moved to Warsaw, Benton Co, Missouri sometime prior to 1950 when Andy & Edna bought a small hotel and restaurant in downtown Warsaw. Edna Mae died from peritonitis in 1952.

He then married Ruth E. Harbit Kennedy on Feb 12, 1953 in Warsaw, Benton Co, Missouri (per marriage license filed in Bk N, pg 23 in Benton Co, Missouri)

OBIT BENTON COUNTY GUIDE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1954 WARSAW, MO
Andy Berry, 63, proprietor of Warsaw Hotel and Cafe, died at Bothwell Hospital in Sedalia at 10:10 p.m. Sunday. He had been a patient there since Friday and had been in failing health for year.
Before coming to Warsaw, Mr. Berry was a grocer at Sedalia for a number of years.
Born in Russellville, Cole County, July 8, 1891, the son of the late Sterling Price and Margaret Elizabeth Shepard [sic Shepherd] Berry, he was in the grocery business in Sedalia for 23 years, being located at Broadway and Hancock and later at 820 South Engineer. For the past four years he had owned and operated the Warsaw Hotel and Cafe.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church, Warsaw, past Master of AF & AM Lodge, No 236, York Rite bodies, Ararat Shrine, Loyal Order of the Moose, Sedalia Lodge No. 1494.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth, of the home, one daughter, Mrs Margaret Gwinn, Sedalia; one son, Ray Berry, Hamilton; three sisters, Mrs. Clora Ward, and Mrs. Janie Herndon, [Mrs. Bessie Amos?] all of Sedalia; two brothers, Thomas L. Berry, Detroit, Mich., and Ivan Berry, Sedalia and ten grandchildren.
Funeral services were at the Gillespie Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by the Rev. Van Horn, Warsaw. Russell Maug, staff soloist, sang in "In the Garden" and "Beyond the Sunset" accompanied by Lillian Fox on the organ. Pallbearers were M. D. Weathers, J. H. Gwinn, George Emo, Cal Rodgers, Herbert Mason and Bill Castlebury. Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery.



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