Funeral services will be held at 10am Monday at Porter Loring Chapel for John Edward O'Neill of 240 Bushnell Avenue. Mr. O'Neill died Tuesday, August 11, 1953 in Muskegon, Michigan. He was born on August 13, 1886 in Charlotte, Michigan. He was president and general manager of the Mission Provision Company in San Antonio. From 1906-1921, he had been a manager for the Swift Packing Company.
He was a former national officer and member of the board of directors of the National Independent Meat Packers, a member of the San Antonio Country Club, and the Rotary Club. Surviving is his wife Mrs. Lula Philipe O'Neill of San Antonio.
The Rev. Harold C. Gosnell will officiate at the rites and interment will be in Mission Burial Park. Pallbearers will be F.E. Gerth, Sr., W.W. Adams, Col. H.G. Fitzgerald, T.A. Lambert, George Parker and Bob Smith.
= = Obituary published in the San Antonio (TX) Express, 16 August 1953. Date of birth was obtained from WWI registration papers, online. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this individual or his family.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
D. Alonzo York, M.D. (1867-1955)
Dr. D. Alonzo York, city health officer of Del Rio, Texas, for 21 years, died at his home on April 29, 1955. He was born in February 1867 in Clayton, Georgia to Van Buren York and Sara Hopper York. He received his preliminary education at the Hiawasse Institute in Clayton and then graduated from Mercer College in Mason. He completed his medical education at Emory University in Atlanta, which was then known as Atlanta Medical College. He practiced briefly in Georgia before coming to Texas, where he lived first in Mineola and then moved to Del Rio in 1911.
A member almost continuously since 1904 of the Medina-Uvalde-Maverick-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-McKinney-Terrell-Zavala Counties Medical Society, he was also a member of the Texas Medical Association and was elected to honorary membership in 1949. Dr. York was a former member of the board of directors of the World Health Organization and served as city and county health officer.
During World War I, he organized the first Red Cross chapter in the county and became its first instructor in First Aid. He was a Mason and a former member of the board of trustees of the Del Rio Independent School District. He was a charter member of the Lions Club and a member of the Methodist church. He helped found the San Felipe Country Club, and for many years was a golf enthusiast.
Dr. York and Miss Helena Moore were married on June 9, 1893. Mrs. Moore died on April 4, 1948. Survivors include a son, Dr. D.A. York, medical director of the Universal Match Corporation in Karnack; two daughters, Mrs. Sam Harwood of Brackettville and Mrs. Horace Fawcett of Del Rio; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
== Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or the career of the deceased.
A member almost continuously since 1904 of the Medina-Uvalde-Maverick-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-McKinney-Terrell-Zavala Counties Medical Society, he was also a member of the Texas Medical Association and was elected to honorary membership in 1949. Dr. York was a former member of the board of directors of the World Health Organization and served as city and county health officer.
During World War I, he organized the first Red Cross chapter in the county and became its first instructor in First Aid. He was a Mason and a former member of the board of trustees of the Del Rio Independent School District. He was a charter member of the Lions Club and a member of the Methodist church. He helped found the San Felipe Country Club, and for many years was a golf enthusiast.
Dr. York and Miss Helena Moore were married on June 9, 1893. Mrs. Moore died on April 4, 1948. Survivors include a son, Dr. D.A. York, medical director of the Universal Match Corporation in Karnack; two daughters, Mrs. Sam Harwood of Brackettville and Mrs. Horace Fawcett of Del Rio; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
== Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or the career of the deceased.
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