Funeral services for Orin Clements, 38-year-old World War Veteran of Centerton, this county, who died in the Veterans' Hospital at Fayetteville on Monday, May 25th, 1936, were held here in Bentonville Thursday morning in the chapel of the Burns Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. F.A. Bradshaw, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Vaughn, southwest of here, assisted by the Rev. L.C. Tedford of the Bentonville Baptist Church. Music was by Mrs. Mack Rogers, Mrs. H.J. Beck, and Mrs. William F. Burns with Mrs. Florence Gladden accompanist.
Entertainments scheduled on the program for Thursday morning of the All-Veterans' jubilee being held here at that time were dispensed with during the funeral hour and 25 Spanish-American War Veterans here for the Jubilee served as honorary pallbearers. The active pallbearers were the following members of the Riddle-Hutcheson American Legion Post of Bentonville; Roy Dixon, Carl Sullivan, Robert Holland, Charles Evans, H.G. Bock and Fred Harrell.
Burial was in the Bentonville cemetery and funeral arrangements were in charge of the Burns Funeral Home of Bentonville.
Mr. Clements was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Clements of Centerton, this county. He is survived by his parents, a sister, Mrs. R.E. Moffitt of Bentonville, and three brothers, F.L. Clements of Guthrie, Okla., R.H. Clements of Cushing, Okla., and J. M. Clements of El Paso, Texas.
He enlisted Jan. 3rd., 1918, at Fort Logan, Colo., and received his honorable discharge from the army on, July 1st, 1919, at Camp Funston, Kansas. He served 18 months in France with a detachment of General Hospital No. 9.[The Benton County Democrat - Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas - Thursday, June 4,1936 - Page 1 Column 1]
Funeral services for Orin Clements, 38-year-old World War Veteran of Centerton, this county, who died in the Veterans' Hospital at Fayetteville on Monday, May 25th, 1936, were held here in Bentonville Thursday morning in the chapel of the Burns Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. F.A. Bradshaw, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Vaughn, southwest of here, assisted by the Rev. L.C. Tedford of the Bentonville Baptist Church. Music was by Mrs. Mack Rogers, Mrs. H.J. Beck, and Mrs. William F. Burns with Mrs. Florence Gladden accompanist.
Entertainments scheduled on the program for Thursday morning of the All-Veterans' jubilee being held here at that time were dispensed with during the funeral hour and 25 Spanish-American War Veterans here for the Jubilee served as honorary pallbearers. The active pallbearers were the following members of the Riddle-Hutcheson American Legion Post of Bentonville; Roy Dixon, Carl Sullivan, Robert Holland, Charles Evans, H.G. Bock and Fred Harrell.
Burial was in the Bentonville cemetery and funeral arrangements were in charge of the Burns Funeral Home of Bentonville.
Mr. Clements was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Clements of Centerton, this county. He is survived by his parents, a sister, Mrs. R.E. Moffitt of Bentonville, and three brothers, F.L. Clements of Guthrie, Okla., R.H. Clements of Cushing, Okla., and J. M. Clements of El Paso, Texas.
He enlisted Jan. 3rd., 1918, at Fort Logan, Colo., and received his honorable discharge from the army on, July 1st, 1919, at Camp Funston, Kansas. He served 18 months in France with a detachment of General Hospital No. 9.[The Benton County Democrat - Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas - Thursday, June 4,1936 - Page 1 Column 1]
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