Scouting the Library Local History Room - Find #2

#2  RECORDS OF THE

MORRIS BROTHERS FUNERAL LHOME

830 SOUTH CLINTON STREET

DEFIANCE, OHIO 

1929 - 1951

(Copied by Steven Moore, 1987)

Funeral home records often provide good information for genealogists, and, of course, some are much more detailed than others. The Defiance Public Library has the records of the Morris Funeral Home for a period of 22 years.  Clarence (Bob)and H. K. Morris began their funeral home in Defiance in 1929, originally on Jefferson Street and later on Clinton, and ran it until it was sold in 1951.

Bob Morris had a heart attack in 1951, and a portion of the business was sold to Fred Stick who also took over its management. Bob worked there until 1954 when he sold out to Mr. Stick and Bob became a Northwest Ohio sales rep for the Drake Casket Company.  Poor health required him to completely retire in 1959; he died the next year.

Samples from these records (without description of casket purchased):

-Rosina W. Schatz - born June 27, 1855, died Aug.25, 1929, Rev. Albert Fisher, Reformed Church 

- Andrew Hoffman, born Oct 24. 1857, died Oct. 9, 1929, Rev. Albert Fisher, Reformed Church

- John F. Kussen, born Dec. 27, 1840, died Sept. 30, 1930, Florida M.E. Ch., Rev. Cordrey, Florida Cem.

-John H. Fenter, born April 13, 1838, died June 5, 1930, Reform Ch., Rev. Stockmeir, Reform Cem.

- Albert Dusenberg, born Nov. 2, 1866, died Feb. 26, 1930, funeral home, Rev. Strauss, Riverside Cem.

- Merrick Skiver, born June 25, 1849, died May 22, 1930, Mount Zion Ch, Rev. Hancy, Mount Zion Cem.