Miami-Allen County OhArchives Obituaries.....Meily, Francis September 26, 1909
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Lima Daily News, September 27, 1909
Lima Daily News, September 27, 1909

Piqua, Ohio.  September 27.—Mrs. FRANCES M. MEILY ORR, aged 56, wife of 
General W. P. ORR, died last night at her home in this city of cancer after an 
illness of many months.  Her death had been expected for several days.
    
Mrs. ORR was prominent in social circles, active in philanthropic and church 
work and devoted to the work of women’s clubs.  She had been President of the 
local Federation and of the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs, a director of 
the General Federation and was chairman of its educational committee.  She was 
a member of the Piqua board of education, being one of three women board 
members in Ohio.

Her last appearance was on Labor Day at the dedication of the new Favorite 
Place school, which is a monument to her interest in the schools, being built 
on the cottage plan at a cost of $30,000.

Mrs. ORR was a member of the board of lady managers of the Piqua Memorial 
Hospital, and was an alumna of the Western College at Oxford, and had served 
as a member of its board.  She was a sister of the late Mrs. CALVIN S. BRICE, 
Mrs. I. MOTTER and GEORGE MEILY of Lima.  She was married to General W. P. ORR 
in St. Mark’s Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, in London, Eng., March 25, 1884, 
by the late Archbishop FARRAR.


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