(The Whitewater Register June 1, 1939 page 1)
Harry Wintermute, 79, died at his Hebron home Thursday evening. He had been indisposed rather than ill for 5 months of days and death came quietly and unexpectedly. Harry wintermute was a one man intelligent, well read, honorable and deeply interested in his fellowmen, he made friends and kept them. Many would call him a “character” and perhaps he was but that characterization might not be interpreted to mean a lack of attributes found in the better type of citizen. For years he ran a circus, a sort of one+man show, in which he was the motivating spirit. He liked to entertain people and probably happiest moments are these spent pn & since mystifying old and young with feets of legerdemaim an act in which he was an adept. At one time he was known as an agnostic but that was not so. He was a student of the Bible and finding contradictory statements therein he took delight in confronting any fundamental who wanted to debate with him. The fact was that Harry Wintermute was a deeply religious person and died in the Christian Science faith. Harry was born in Johnstown on June 12th 1861and a few years later his parents moved to a farm in Hebron which thereafter was to be his homeIn 1905 he was married to Miss Clara Conklin of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three years later sge passed away. Leaving one son, Ralph, who died as a youth. He married to Miss Lillian Mills of Chicago occurred in 1920. She survives him as does a brother Halsey of Hebron. Funeral services were read on Monday afternoon with interment in Hebron cemetery.
The above obituary has an error. It says born in Johstown buth this does not agree with his death certificate.
Harry Wintermute, 79, died at his Hebron home Thursday evening. He had been indisposed rather than ill for 5 months of days and death came quietly and unexpectedly. Harry wintermute was a one man intelligent, well read, honorable and deeply interested in his fellowmen, he made friends and kept them. Many would call him a “character” and perhaps he was but that characterization might not be interpreted to mean a lack of attributes found in the better type of citizen. For years he ran a circus, a sort of one+man show, in which he was the motivating spirit. He liked to entertain people and probably happiest moments are these spent pn & since mystifying old and young with feets of legerdemaim an act in which he was an adept. At one time he was known as an agnostic but that was not so. He was a student of the Bible and finding contradictory statements therein he took delight in confronting any fundamental who wanted to debate with him. The fact was that Harry Wintermute was a deeply religious person and died in the Christian Science faith. Harry was born in Johnstown on June 12th 1861and a few years later his parents moved to a farm in Hebron which thereafter was to be his homeIn 1905 he was married to Miss Clara Conklin of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three years later sge passed away. Leaving one son, Ralph, who died as a youth. He married to Miss Lillian Mills of Chicago occurred in 1920. She survives him as does a brother Halsey of Hebron. Funeral services were read on Monday afternoon with interment in Hebron cemetery.
The above obituary has an error. It says born in Johstown buth this does not agree with his death certificate.
(The Whitewater Register June 1, 1939 page 1)
Harry Wintermute, 79, died at his Hebron home Thursday evening. He had been indisposed rather than ill for 5 months of days and death came quietly and unexpectedly. Harry wintermute was a one man intelligent, well read, honorable and deeply interested in his fellowmen, he made friends and kept them. Many would call him a “character” and perhaps he was but that characterization might not be interpreted to mean a lack of attributes found in the better type of citizen. For years he ran a circus, a sort of one+man show, in which he was the motivating spirit. He liked to entertain people and probably happiest moments are these spent pn & since mystifying old and young with feets of legerdemaim an act in which he was an adept. At one time he was known as an agnostic but that was not so. He was a student of the Bible and finding contradictory statements therein he took delight in confronting any fundamental who wanted to debate with him. The fact was that Harry Wintermute was a deeply religious person and died in the Christian Science faith. Harry was born in Johnstown on June 12th 1861and a few years later his parents moved to a farm in Hebron which thereafter was to be his homeIn 1905 he was married to Miss Clara Conklin of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three years later sge passed away. Leaving one son, Ralph, who died as a youth. He married to Miss Lillian Mills of Chicago occurred in 1920. She survives him as does a brother Halsey of Hebron. Funeral services were read on Monday afternoon with interment in Hebron cemetery.
The above obituary has an error. It says born in Johstown buth this does not agree with his death certificate.
Harry Wintermute, 79, died at his Hebron home Thursday evening. He had been indisposed rather than ill for 5 months of days and death came quietly and unexpectedly. Harry wintermute was a one man intelligent, well read, honorable and deeply interested in his fellowmen, he made friends and kept them. Many would call him a “character” and perhaps he was but that characterization might not be interpreted to mean a lack of attributes found in the better type of citizen. For years he ran a circus, a sort of one+man show, in which he was the motivating spirit. He liked to entertain people and probably happiest moments are these spent pn & since mystifying old and young with feets of legerdemaim an act in which he was an adept. At one time he was known as an agnostic but that was not so. He was a student of the Bible and finding contradictory statements therein he took delight in confronting any fundamental who wanted to debate with him. The fact was that Harry Wintermute was a deeply religious person and died in the Christian Science faith. Harry was born in Johnstown on June 12th 1861and a few years later his parents moved to a farm in Hebron which thereafter was to be his homeIn 1905 he was married to Miss Clara Conklin of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Three years later sge passed away. Leaving one son, Ralph, who died as a youth. He married to Miss Lillian Mills of Chicago occurred in 1920. She survives him as does a brother Halsey of Hebron. Funeral services were read on Monday afternoon with interment in Hebron cemetery.
The above obituary has an error. It says born in Johstown buth this does not agree with his death certificate.
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