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Chalmer Orville Willits

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Chalmer Orville Willits

Birth
Walnut, Crawford County, Kansas, USA
Death
16 Apr 1941 (aged 53)
Drywood Township, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Drywood Township, Bourbon County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Chalmer Willits of Cato is Dead at 53

Cato April 19 - Final rites were conducted at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Cato Christian church for Chalmer Willits,53, who died Wednesday afternoon. Rev. W. E. Babb of Bonner Springs and Rev. Earl Hayes of Porterville were in charge. Interment was in the Large cemetery near Cato.

Death resulted from influenza and asthma complications.

Mr. Willits had lived on his farm home north of Cato for the seventeen years. He was a resident of Pittsburg when a boy living at Twenty-second and Girard. He attended the Lincoln school there. he later moved to the Drywood and Cato districts. Mr. Willits was married to Mary Watkins of the Cato neighborhood in 1910. A membership was held in the Cato Christian church.

Survivors are the wido: two daugthers, Mrs. Frances Simpson and Mrs. Helen Engle, both of near Arcadia; five grandchildren; the mother, Mrs. Etta Willits of near Farlington; four brothers, Will Willits of Fulton, Ray Willits of Oregon, Louis Willits of Kansas City, and Cecil Willits of Fort Scott, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Helminger of Berryville, Ark.

Among those attending the service were J.A. Daggett, and family and Mrs. Florence House of Pittsburg and A.L. Daggett of Parsons.
Chalmer Willits of Cato is Dead at 53

Cato April 19 - Final rites were conducted at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Cato Christian church for Chalmer Willits,53, who died Wednesday afternoon. Rev. W. E. Babb of Bonner Springs and Rev. Earl Hayes of Porterville were in charge. Interment was in the Large cemetery near Cato.

Death resulted from influenza and asthma complications.

Mr. Willits had lived on his farm home north of Cato for the seventeen years. He was a resident of Pittsburg when a boy living at Twenty-second and Girard. He attended the Lincoln school there. he later moved to the Drywood and Cato districts. Mr. Willits was married to Mary Watkins of the Cato neighborhood in 1910. A membership was held in the Cato Christian church.

Survivors are the wido: two daugthers, Mrs. Frances Simpson and Mrs. Helen Engle, both of near Arcadia; five grandchildren; the mother, Mrs. Etta Willits of near Farlington; four brothers, Will Willits of Fulton, Ray Willits of Oregon, Louis Willits of Kansas City, and Cecil Willits of Fort Scott, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Helminger of Berryville, Ark.

Among those attending the service were J.A. Daggett, and family and Mrs. Florence House of Pittsburg and A.L. Daggett of Parsons.


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