ALLEN COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: HERR, Jerome W. (d. 1999)
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Sunday April 4, 1999

The Lima News

Bluffton

JEROME W. HERR, 90, died at 2:20 p.m. April 2, 1999 at Mennonite Memorial 
Home, Bluffton.

He was born Sept. 19, 1908, in Bluffton to William Henry and Alice Daniels 
Herr. He had been married to Ellen Rosaland Clark.

Mr. Herr retired from Farmers’ Grain Elevator, Pandora. He was a member of 
Beaverdam United Methodist Church and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1275. He 
was an Army veteran of World War II, serving at Guadalcanal and receiving the 
Purple Heart. He was a graduate of Bluffton High School.

Survivors include two sons, Thomas W. (Laura) Herr, of Westerville and 
Richard J. (Cherie) Herr of Arlington; two daughters, Mary Anna Herr of 
Ottawa and Gay Ellen (Eddie) Norris of Massilon; six grandchildren; and two 
great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by five brothers, Edgar, Forrest, Woodrow, Millard, 
and Olan Herr; and three sisters, Emma Herr and Rowena and Blanche Lewis.

Services will begin at 11 a.m. Monday at the Bluffton Chapel of Chiles and
Sons-Laman Funeral Homes. Chaplain William Herr will officiate. Burial will 
be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluffton.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and one hour prior to services Monday 
at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Mennonite Memorial Home.