Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Speakman, C. Arthur April 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Wanda Casella james_casella@verizon.net February 8, 2005, 8:02 pm CCHS Surnames File In Southern,N.C. C. Arthur Speakman of Mt. Vernon,N.Y. dided suddenly from a heat attack. he was 70 year of age and had been in good health. He and Mrs. Speakman,the former Miss Aimee Zane of West Chester, drove through here last Wednesday on a Southern trip, and stopped here for a hotel dinner, his sister, Miss Mary E. Speakman, being there guest at the time. On Saturday aftrnoon, while stopping at a hotel in Southern Pines, he became ill, was taken to a hospital and passed away.Mrs Speakman is on her way home by rail. Mr.Speakman had been away from here for a number of years, having spent the active part of his business life with the AmericanLithograph company in New York, where he retired about fifteen years ago. He was an Episcopalian vestryman, and President of the Hospital Board in Mount Vernon, a suburb o New York. Three daughters survive him: Charlotte, wife of Harol Oviatt,San Mateo, Cal.,; Elizabeth, wife of Foster Webster,Larchmont N.Y.,; Eleanor, wife of James L. Crider, Baltimore. The funeral of C.Arthur Speakman , late of Mt. Vernon N.Y. was held yesterday afternoon from the chapel of J. B. Smith & Son, East Gay street. Service were conducted by Rev.Jacob Ashton Winterstein, rector of the church of the Holy Trinity, West Chester, Interment was made at Concorcville Friends` Cemetery. Additional Comments: There are several other obits for C.Arthur in file and news paper articles biographing his life. One lists parents as Townsend and Charlotte Speakman. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb