Coles County IL Archives Obituaries.....Newland, Harold A ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bev Dobbins bosartbev@aol.com May 1999 Obituary of Harold A. NEWLAND, Coles County, Illinois Name of Deceased: Harold A. NEWLAND Name of Newspaper: Mattoon Journal-Gazette Date of Newspaper: 24 June 1974, Monday HAROLD A. NEWLAND Harold A. Newland, 70, of 216 S. 16th, was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital at 8:20 a.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Croke will officiate. Friends may call at Mitchell Jerdan Funeral Home after 6 p.m. today. The Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Newland was born June 11, 1904 in Mattoon, the son of Charles A. and Bertha Cavanaugh Newland. He married Helen Elizabeth Pyle in Mattoon September 26, 1923. She survives. Also surviving are two sons, Richard E. of Rochester and Charles W. of Mattoon; one sister, Miss Mary Martha Newland of New York City, N.Y.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by one brother, John; and one sister, Bertha Jane Horsley. Mr. Newland was a machinist for the New York Central Railroad from 1920 to his retirement in 1964. He was a member of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church and a former member of the Brotherhood of Railway Employees. http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/coles/obits/n-s/hnewland.txt