Obituary of Walter T. HARDING, 1871-1906
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives August 19, 2000 by Susan
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(obituary of Walter T. Harding, Bay City, Pierce county..newspaper
clipping from family collection, newspaper and issue date unknown)

Surnames:  HARDING, SELL, STORKEL, HEISERMAN, LINDBERG, KOLTSHORN,
           STEFFENS, JOSEPHSON, FERRIN, MICHAELS

Obituary

Walter T. Harding died at the home of his father Feb. 13, 1906.  He was
born at Minnesota Lake, Faribault county, Minn., March 16, 1871, and
was therefore thirty-four years, ten months and twenty-eight days old.
He came to Pierce county at the age of nine years.  Nov. 21, 1897, he
was united in marriage to Miss Selma E. Sell of Red Wing and had resided
at that place up to the time of his wife's death July, 1905, when he
came to Bay City.

Besides his father he leaves three brothers and four sisters, all of
Bay City except the eldest sister, Mrs. Charles Storkel of Brookfield,
Minn.  Also two children, Ruth, aged six years, who is with her
grandparents in Red Wing, and Arthur, aged four years, who is at
Brookfield, Minn.

Funeral services were held at the Bay City Methodist Episcopal church
Friday morning, Rev. M.A. Michaels and Modern Woodmen camp, No. 1486,
of Red Wing, of which Mr. Harding was a member, officiating.  About
forty brother Woodmen from the Bay City and Red Wing lodges were present.

The pallbearers were: Thomas Helserman, Felix Lindberg, H. Koltshorn
and A.O. Steffens of Red Wing and Ed Josephson of Bay City. J.J. Ferrin,
another brother Woodman of Red Wing, was funeral director.