Will County IL Archives Obituaries.....Read, Allen H "Pat" December 1925
************************************************
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:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com November 10, 2006, 10:32 pm

Herald, Dec 31, 1925
Allen H. Read

Last Rites for Read Tomorrow

Funeral Will Be Held Thursday Morning at 9 O’Clock

Funeral services for Allen H. “Pat” Read, director of the Will and Grundy 
county branches of the Chicago Motor club, will be held from the home, 403 
South Raynor avenue at 9 o’clock to St. Mary’s church at 9:30 o’clock.

Mr. Read died late yesterday at St. Joseph’s hospital from injuries received 
in an automobile accident Christmas day.  He tried his best to help the 
attending physicians in their fight for his life but his heroic struggle was 
in vain.

Was Popular Figure

Altho only 25 years old “Pat” Read was one of the best-known figures in the 
life of this community.  The extent of his popularity was shown by the fact 
that more telephone calls inquiring after his condition, passed thru the 
switchboard at the hospital than for any other patient in the history of the 
institution.  The calls averaged several hundred a day and some of them were 
from long distance points.

It was about six years ago that Mr. Read started the Will County branch of the 
Chicago Motor club, a business that he has built up until it is now the 
strongest agency in the state outside of Chicago.  Altho a young man he is 
said to have left a considerable estate.

The Elks lodge, of which he was an active member, will have charge of the 
services at Mount Olivet cemetery.

Selected Pallbearers

The pallbearers were selected by “Pat” himself, shortly before he died.  They 
include two of the officials of the Chicago Motor club, and young men about 
town whom he numbered among his closest friends.

Burt Brown and Joseph J. Kavanaugh, of the motor club, and Arthur Downey, 
Arthur Kelly, Leo Perry and Peter Powell.

Mr. Read is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Read, 403 South Raynor 
avenue, a sister, Irma, one brother, Merle A., and his grandparents, Mr. and 
Mrs. I. F. Read, also of Joliet.

Hold Last Sad Rites for Allan Read

Hundreds Attend Funeral Services at St. Mary’s Church

Thursday, December 31, 1925, Herald

Last rites were held this morning for Allan H. “Pat” Read, head of the Chicago 
Motor club in this district, who died Tuesday from injuries suffered in an 
automobile accident Christmas day.

St. Mary’s church was filled with the friends that came to pay their last 
tribute of respect to “Pat” Read.

The pews and the rear of the church were filled with young men, old men, women 
of all ages and children, for “Pat” was the same to all and beloved by all.

“For a young man Allan Read was quite successful from a business point of 
view,” the Rev. P. J. Hennessey, pastor of St. Mary’s, said in his 
sermon, “and had he lived he would have been a wealthy man, but wealth does 
not count for much after all. Allan Read had a happy disposition, a wonderful 
disposition that made him rich in friends, for all who knew him loved him.”

The funeral procession left the church at 10:15 o’clock for Mt. Olivet 
cemetery, where the Elks lodge, of which Mr. Read was a member, had charge of 
the service.

The Passing of a Friend

Joliet Herald

Some men pass out of this life and leave only an accumulation of wealth to 
mark their place in the community.  The interest in their going is pretty well 
confined to the circle of those who share the estate.

Others leave behind a wealth of friendship.  They have been friends of their 
fellowmen.  They have given of a spirit that oils the relations of man to man 
and prevents friction.

Their going is a community loss, felt by all who had contact with them.

In the latter class will A. H. “Pat” Read be remembered.

You can’t measure friendship by a yardstick or in terms of cash.  Yet it is 
very real.

Money has a limited value.  It will buy a certain amount of this or that, and 
no more.

Dollars and cents will fail a man.  Some things they can do.  Many they 
cannot.  Friendship has no such set limits.  It meets a human need great or 
small.  Those genial souls who generate it are an asset of great value to 
their fellow beings.  Their passing is an occasion for genuine sorrow.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/obits/r/read497nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 4.7 Kb