OBIT: Harry DOHNER, 1896, Lebanon, Lebanon County, PA

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HARRY DOHNER BURIED

  Consigned to Mother Earth at Mt. Lebanon This Afternoon.

  All that was mortal of Harry Dohner, the six year old son of Mrs. Mary 
Dohner, of 411 North Tenth street, was consigned to mother earth this 
afternoon.  Services were conducted at the house by Rev. A. A. Arthur, 
pastor of Centenary M. E. church, and interment was made in Mt. Lebanon 
cemetery.
  The little body was dressed in a suit of brown plaid with a pair of black 
slippers and a large blue necktie and all traces of his terrible sufferings 
had been eliminated by the hand of death.  His features looked life-like.  
The body reposed in a handsome white cloth-covered casket with silver 
appointments and was almost covered with floral tributes from relatives and 
friends.  Among them were a chair and star of straw flowers from his aunts, 
of Philadelphia; a basket of yellow roses, carnations and smilax and a harp 
design from the ladies employed in the laundry department of Lebanon 
industrial works; a wreath from his classmates of the Centenary M. E. Sunday 
school; an anchor of carnations and smilax, from Henry C. Gallagher, and 
bouquets of roses, carnations, lilies and white flowers from the school 
taught by Miss Poorman, the Misses Schropp, Mrs. J. Wenrich, George Hartmen 
Ethel Light, John Meily and others.  An eider-down blanket covered the 
lifeless form.
  From the time the first visitor was allowed to view the remains until the 
services were begun people passed by the casket in a continual stream and 
took their last look at the dead form.
  Rev. Arthur spoke feelingly of the departed and the Centenary M. E. choir 
beautifully sang several hymns.  Undertaker W. H. Steiner had charge of the 
funeral.

Lebanon Daily News, January 22, 1896