In Memory

Harry Wilson - Class Of 1929

  Harry M. Wilson, 57, of 1617 Shenandoah Drive, Lafayette, died at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday in Robert Long Hospital, Indianapolis, where he had been a patient four days.  He had been ill a month and suffered a heart attack while in Home Hospital.
  Born November 13, 1910 in Delphi he was the son of Francis and Mary McDonald Wilson. He was reared in Delphi and graduated from Delphi High School.   August 1, 1942 he was married in West Lafayette to Olive I. Rush.  He had been a machinist for 22 years at the Aluminum Co. at Lafayette and a member of the Aluminum Workers Union Local 115.
  He was a member of the Congress Street Methodist Church, Delphi IOOF and Masonic lodges, Scottish Rite, Commandry 40, Chapter 21 and a 32nd degree Mason.
  Surviving with the widow are a son, William L., at home; a brother, Robert Wilson of Delphi; four sisters, Mrs. Raymond (Esther) Barber of Burlington, Mrs. Marjorie Lorber of New York City, Mrs. Betty Bridwell of Bedford, who was his twin sister, and Mrs. Ruth Brown of Utah.
  Final rites will be Friday at 10 a.m. in Hippensteel Chapel at Lafayette with the Rev. Louis E. Haskell officiating.  Interment will be in the IOOF Cemetery at Delphi.
  Friends may call at the funeral home on Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Journal-Citizen, Thursday, June 20, 1968