W H Mirise
Services for William H Mirise, 72, 2418 S Lincoln St, retired secretary-treasurer of Denver Local 49 of the International Typographical Union, will be at 1pm Thursday at Moore Mortuary, E 17th Ave & Clarkson St. Burial will be in Chapel Hill.
Mirise died Sunday in St Luke's Hospital.
Born Nov 18, 1893, in Colorado Springs, he learned the printing trade there. He married Pauline V Kimmerling March 28, 1918 in Denver.
A Denver Post printer from 1927 to 1941, he left The Post to become Chief Executive of the Union Local. He retired from that job in 1961.
His successor, Paul Lewis, recalled that Mirise guided the union in years of post war expension of the printing trade and helped secure contracts including retirement programs for printers at newspapers and commercial print shops.
At the time of his death, Mirise held the post of treasurer of the Printing Industry Credit Union. A veteran of World War I, he was a Mason and an American Legionnaire.
Besides his widow, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Anna Lee Hindes, Denver; two brothers, Frank, Colorado Springs, and John in California; a sister, Mrs. Mary McCutchan, Colorado Springs; four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
W H Mirise
Services for William H Mirise, 72, 2418 S Lincoln St, retired secretary-treasurer of Denver Local 49 of the International Typographical Union, will be at 1pm Thursday at Moore Mortuary, E 17th Ave & Clarkson St. Burial will be in Chapel Hill.
Mirise died Sunday in St Luke's Hospital.
Born Nov 18, 1893, in Colorado Springs, he learned the printing trade there. He married Pauline V Kimmerling March 28, 1918 in Denver.
A Denver Post printer from 1927 to 1941, he left The Post to become Chief Executive of the Union Local. He retired from that job in 1961.
His successor, Paul Lewis, recalled that Mirise guided the union in years of post war expension of the printing trade and helped secure contracts including retirement programs for printers at newspapers and commercial print shops.
At the time of his death, Mirise held the post of treasurer of the Printing Industry Credit Union. A veteran of World War I, he was a Mason and an American Legionnaire.
Besides his widow, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Anna Lee Hindes, Denver; two brothers, Frank, Colorado Springs, and John in California; a sister, Mrs. Mary McCutchan, Colorado Springs; four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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