Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Kirkner, Harry W. May 26, 1943
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Daily Local News, May 28, 1943
Harry W. Kirkner, 68, veteran of the Spanish-American war, was found dead on 
Wednesday night in the home of Ettinger-Powers-Campbell Post, Veterans of 
Foreign Wars, Phoenixville.  He was employed as a caretaker at the VFW home and 
his death was attributed to a heart attack.  Deputy coroner Cooper T. Bishop, 
Jr. investigated and issued a certificate of death from natural causes.
Kirkner was born in Philadelphia, but resided in Phoenixville most of his 
life.  He served with Battery C, 107th Pennsylvania Light Field Artillery, in 
Puerto Rico.

Kirkner was a member of the First Methodist Church, Ettinger-Powers-Campbell 
Post, No 1564, V.F.W,; Walters Camp, No 151 United Spanish War Veterans, and 
Phoenix Nest, Fraternal Order of Orioles.

He was a moulder by trade and previously had been employed by the Phoenix Iron 
Company at Berwyn.

In addition to his widow, Mrs. Emma M. (nee Walters) Kirkner, Mr. Kirkner is 
survived by the following children: J Earl Kirkner, Norristown, Mary A., Wife 
of Albert M. Miller, Schuylkill Road; A Catherine, wife of Walter Syphard, 
Pottstown; Ethel J., wife of Charles W. Graten; Harry B. Kirkner, Phoenixville; 
and Donald E. Kirkner, Schwenksville.  There were 14 grand children.

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