Photo: Robert E. Walsh, US Army Air Corps

Robert E. Walsh, WWII

 This is a photo of my maternal great-uncle, Robert Earl WALSH in his U.S. Army Air Corp uniform.  

Funeral Record : Frank Haley (1937)

Source: Frank Haley Funeral Record, Baird Funeral Home, Jay Co., Indiana,  1937, Saxman & Schindler, comp., n.d.

Another good find for me at the Jay County Historical Society library was the funeral record of Andrew Frank HALEY, brother of my paternal 2nd-great grandfather, Eli Weldon HALEY.  Prior to this find, I knew that Frank, as he was known, had died in 1937, and that he was buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery in Fort Recovery, Ohio.  Now that I had the funeral record, I have a few more tidbits.


According to the record, Frank died July 29, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois.  What was he doing there?  His son, Clarence O. HALEY, was a physician there.  Services for Frank were held at Mt. Zion church in Noble Township, Jay County, Indiana, with burial in Fort Recovery, Ohio.  The funeral record gives his parents as Geo. W. HALEY and Mary Jane SHERICK, as well as he being a widower of Emma LEONARD.


I was unable to locate the death record on Ancestry.com in the Cook County death database.  However, at the FamilySearch.org site, I located his death record.  He didn't die in Chicago, but instead in Oak Park.

Andrew Frank HALEY was born March 4, 1864 in Ashland County, Ohio, the oldest child of George Washington and Mary Jane (SHERRICK) HALEY.  He married November 3, 1887 in Jay County, Indiana to Emma Catherine LEONHARD (1866-1925).


Here is the link to his memorial page at FindAGrave.

Grandma was a Bathing Beauty

Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Indiana, July 25, 1939

While searching newspaper collections, I located this advertisement for a "Miss Kokomo" Bathing Beauty contest that listed my maternal grandmother, Bonnie LAMBERTSON as a contestant.

According to the paper, the contest was sponsored by the Sipe theater and this was to be the third elimination round.  The final was to be held on August 2nd.