El Paso-Hinsdale-Ouray County CO Archives Obituaries.....Flora, William Walter November 10, 1922
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The Colorado Springs Gazette, 11/12/1922

(transcribed, 03/01/06) 

Copy from Colorado Springs Public Library 

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  THE   COLORADO   SPRINGS   GAZETTE 
       Sunday, November 12, 1922 

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   HOLD FUNERAL
       OF DR. FLORA 
                HERE TODAY 
 
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   Name Active and Honorary
     Pallbearers; Will Be
      Held This Afternoon 
              at 3 o'Clock 

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      The funeral of Dr W W Flora will be held at the First Methodist church at 3
o'clock this afternoon, the Rev C B Wilcox officiating, Bernard Vessey will sing,
assisted by Fritz Funk on the violin. 

      Dr Flora is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs Guy Hopkins of Pueblo and
Mrs Luke Boggess of Kansas City, and sister Mrs Carl Gray, wife of president of
Union Pacific railway, of New York city. 

      The active pallbearers are W H Spurgeon, C A Hibbard, O H Hemenway, T P
Barber, Dr Edwin L Backus, and W R Armstrong. 

      The honorary pallbearers are William Lennox, Dr W H Sinton, E B Simmons, N S
Gandy of Pasadena, Calif., Dr Frederick S McKay of New York city, Dr W F Marin, Dr V
W Laughlin and Dr E N Wester. 

      Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.



Additional Comments:
William Walter FLORA ws born 23 Nov 1871, Montgomery county, Kansas to John Andrew
FLORA (1845IN-1934KS) and Mary Elizabeth SHULTS (1851OH-1874KS), raised by his
maternal grandmother Harriet C Shults after mother's death "till young manhood
(1885)", daughters born Carthage, MO moved to Colorado Springs 1900 for his wife's
health. Active in Methodist church and Y M C A affairs. rother Clarence FLORA was
living in Oklahoma City in 1922, died 1924. Sister Harriette FLORA was " ...first
white child born in Montgomery county." which at the time was Osage Indian Ceded
Lands.

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