Obituary
Mount Pulaski Times-News; Mount Pulaski, Illinois; 9 March 1939
Harry Buckles Died In Iowa Last Sunday
John Harrison Buckles of Mount Pulaski, known to his large number of friends as Harry Buckles, died at 1:55 p.m. Sunday, March 5, 1939 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry Ulrich, in Fairfax, Iowa, where he had been sick for the past five months. Mr. Buckles' health had been failing for more than one year.
His family was at his bedside when the final summons came. He was aged 69 years, 7 months, and 12 days.
Decedent was born about four miles west of Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois, July 24, 1869, being one of the ten children of Elias and Elizabeth Dyer Buckles. He grew to manhood on the home farm and, in Lincoln on Feb. 22, 1891, married Miss Ida Row of Mount Pulaski. They engaged in farming for a number of years in this community and then moved to Oklahoma. After a few years there they returned to this city and Mr. Buckles devoted some time to the buying of livestock, and he also conducted a meat market on the west side of the square. The family then moved to Waterloo, Iowa, but again came back to this city, residing in an apartment in the Buckles building on the west side of the square above the Gamble store. Mr. Buckles was a member of the Christian church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Buckles of Mount Pulaski; one son, Elias Buckles of Waterloo, Iowa; one daughter, Gladys, wife of Harry Ulrich of Fairfax, Iowa; three grandsons; two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. T. L. Rothwell, Mrs. George Litterly Sr., Frank and Cecil Buckles of Mount Pulaski, and Hubert Buckles of Havana, Illinois. The body arrived in Mount Pulaski Monday afternoon and was taken to the Schahl Funeral Home, remaining there until the hour of the funeral.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. Wayne Staley. Appropriate Hymns, "No Night There" and "The Sweet By and By", were sung by Paul R. Moore, with Mrs. Frank E. Turley as organ accompanist. The services were largely attended. The interment was in the Mount Pulaski cemetery. The pallbearers were George Suedmeier, Walter D. Wacaser, Arthur C. Schilling, Frank Moore, Hubert Zimmerli, and William Brannon. The honorary pallbearers, all nephews, were Everett, Clarence, and Robert Rothwell; Paul, John, and Ralph Buckles; and Claude Litterly. The flowers were in charge of Miss Betty Ann Mayer, Miss Georgiabelle Rothwell, Mrs. Harry Damarin, Miss Emagene Buckles, Mrs. Thomas A. Gupton Sr., and Mrs. Fred Hild, the latter of Stanford, nieces of the decedent.
Mount Pulaski Times-News; Mount Pulaski, Illinois; 9 March 1939
Harry Buckles Died In Iowa Last Sunday
John Harrison Buckles of Mount Pulaski, known to his large number of friends as Harry Buckles, died at 1:55 p.m. Sunday, March 5, 1939 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry Ulrich, in Fairfax, Iowa, where he had been sick for the past five months. Mr. Buckles' health had been failing for more than one year.
His family was at his bedside when the final summons came. He was aged 69 years, 7 months, and 12 days.
Decedent was born about four miles west of Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois, July 24, 1869, being one of the ten children of Elias and Elizabeth Dyer Buckles. He grew to manhood on the home farm and, in Lincoln on Feb. 22, 1891, married Miss Ida Row of Mount Pulaski. They engaged in farming for a number of years in this community and then moved to Oklahoma. After a few years there they returned to this city and Mr. Buckles devoted some time to the buying of livestock, and he also conducted a meat market on the west side of the square. The family then moved to Waterloo, Iowa, but again came back to this city, residing in an apartment in the Buckles building on the west side of the square above the Gamble store. Mr. Buckles was a member of the Christian church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Buckles of Mount Pulaski; one son, Elias Buckles of Waterloo, Iowa; one daughter, Gladys, wife of Harry Ulrich of Fairfax, Iowa; three grandsons; two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. T. L. Rothwell, Mrs. George Litterly Sr., Frank and Cecil Buckles of Mount Pulaski, and Hubert Buckles of Havana, Illinois. The body arrived in Mount Pulaski Monday afternoon and was taken to the Schahl Funeral Home, remaining there until the hour of the funeral.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. Wayne Staley. Appropriate Hymns, "No Night There" and "The Sweet By and By", were sung by Paul R. Moore, with Mrs. Frank E. Turley as organ accompanist. The services were largely attended. The interment was in the Mount Pulaski cemetery. The pallbearers were George Suedmeier, Walter D. Wacaser, Arthur C. Schilling, Frank Moore, Hubert Zimmerli, and William Brannon. The honorary pallbearers, all nephews, were Everett, Clarence, and Robert Rothwell; Paul, John, and Ralph Buckles; and Claude Litterly. The flowers were in charge of Miss Betty Ann Mayer, Miss Georgiabelle Rothwell, Mrs. Harry Damarin, Miss Emagene Buckles, Mrs. Thomas A. Gupton Sr., and Mrs. Fred Hild, the latter of Stanford, nieces of the decedent.
Obituary
Mount Pulaski Times-News; Mount Pulaski, Illinois; 9 March 1939
Harry Buckles Died In Iowa Last Sunday
John Harrison Buckles of Mount Pulaski, known to his large number of friends as Harry Buckles, died at 1:55 p.m. Sunday, March 5, 1939 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry Ulrich, in Fairfax, Iowa, where he had been sick for the past five months. Mr. Buckles' health had been failing for more than one year.
His family was at his bedside when the final summons came. He was aged 69 years, 7 months, and 12 days.
Decedent was born about four miles west of Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois, July 24, 1869, being one of the ten children of Elias and Elizabeth Dyer Buckles. He grew to manhood on the home farm and, in Lincoln on Feb. 22, 1891, married Miss Ida Row of Mount Pulaski. They engaged in farming for a number of years in this community and then moved to Oklahoma. After a few years there they returned to this city and Mr. Buckles devoted some time to the buying of livestock, and he also conducted a meat market on the west side of the square. The family then moved to Waterloo, Iowa, but again came back to this city, residing in an apartment in the Buckles building on the west side of the square above the Gamble store. Mr. Buckles was a member of the Christian church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Buckles of Mount Pulaski; one son, Elias Buckles of Waterloo, Iowa; one daughter, Gladys, wife of Harry Ulrich of Fairfax, Iowa; three grandsons; two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. T. L. Rothwell, Mrs. George Litterly Sr., Frank and Cecil Buckles of Mount Pulaski, and Hubert Buckles of Havana, Illinois. The body arrived in Mount Pulaski Monday afternoon and was taken to the Schahl Funeral Home, remaining there until the hour of the funeral.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. Wayne Staley. Appropriate Hymns, "No Night There" and "The Sweet By and By", were sung by Paul R. Moore, with Mrs. Frank E. Turley as organ accompanist. The services were largely attended. The interment was in the Mount Pulaski cemetery. The pallbearers were George Suedmeier, Walter D. Wacaser, Arthur C. Schilling, Frank Moore, Hubert Zimmerli, and William Brannon. The honorary pallbearers, all nephews, were Everett, Clarence, and Robert Rothwell; Paul, John, and Ralph Buckles; and Claude Litterly. The flowers were in charge of Miss Betty Ann Mayer, Miss Georgiabelle Rothwell, Mrs. Harry Damarin, Miss Emagene Buckles, Mrs. Thomas A. Gupton Sr., and Mrs. Fred Hild, the latter of Stanford, nieces of the decedent.
Mount Pulaski Times-News; Mount Pulaski, Illinois; 9 March 1939
Harry Buckles Died In Iowa Last Sunday
John Harrison Buckles of Mount Pulaski, known to his large number of friends as Harry Buckles, died at 1:55 p.m. Sunday, March 5, 1939 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry Ulrich, in Fairfax, Iowa, where he had been sick for the past five months. Mr. Buckles' health had been failing for more than one year.
His family was at his bedside when the final summons came. He was aged 69 years, 7 months, and 12 days.
Decedent was born about four miles west of Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois, July 24, 1869, being one of the ten children of Elias and Elizabeth Dyer Buckles. He grew to manhood on the home farm and, in Lincoln on Feb. 22, 1891, married Miss Ida Row of Mount Pulaski. They engaged in farming for a number of years in this community and then moved to Oklahoma. After a few years there they returned to this city and Mr. Buckles devoted some time to the buying of livestock, and he also conducted a meat market on the west side of the square. The family then moved to Waterloo, Iowa, but again came back to this city, residing in an apartment in the Buckles building on the west side of the square above the Gamble store. Mr. Buckles was a member of the Christian church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Buckles of Mount Pulaski; one son, Elias Buckles of Waterloo, Iowa; one daughter, Gladys, wife of Harry Ulrich of Fairfax, Iowa; three grandsons; two sisters and three brothers, Mrs. T. L. Rothwell, Mrs. George Litterly Sr., Frank and Cecil Buckles of Mount Pulaski, and Hubert Buckles of Havana, Illinois. The body arrived in Mount Pulaski Monday afternoon and was taken to the Schahl Funeral Home, remaining there until the hour of the funeral.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. Wayne Staley. Appropriate Hymns, "No Night There" and "The Sweet By and By", were sung by Paul R. Moore, with Mrs. Frank E. Turley as organ accompanist. The services were largely attended. The interment was in the Mount Pulaski cemetery. The pallbearers were George Suedmeier, Walter D. Wacaser, Arthur C. Schilling, Frank Moore, Hubert Zimmerli, and William Brannon. The honorary pallbearers, all nephews, were Everett, Clarence, and Robert Rothwell; Paul, John, and Ralph Buckles; and Claude Litterly. The flowers were in charge of Miss Betty Ann Mayer, Miss Georgiabelle Rothwell, Mrs. Harry Damarin, Miss Emagene Buckles, Mrs. Thomas A. Gupton Sr., and Mrs. Fred Hild, the latter of Stanford, nieces of the decedent.
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