-----Original Message----- From: Pamela Villafuerte [mailto:pamelavillafuerte@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:13 AM To: ilpeoria-l@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} OBITUARY: Harry A. DUBUIS OBITUARY: Harry A. DUBUIS, 71, Peoria Parks Designer's Son, Dies Harry A. DUBUIS, 71, operator of the El Paso Greenhouse and son of the designer of the Peoria park system, died Tuesday morning at his home in El Paso, Ill. One of six children of Oscar F. and Fannie GERARD DUBUIS, he grew up here in the years when his father, a native of Lausanne, Switzerland, laid out Glen Oak and Bradley and other early parks here. Grand View Drive was the last project his father completed before his death April 16, 1906. At his father's funeral service the eulogy was delivered by Eugene BALDWIN, founder and editor of the Peoria Star. Harry DUBUIS was born in Chicago August 21, 1882. After attending Longfellow School and Bradley Polytechnic Institute, he was trained in horticultural work here. Upon his marriage to Florence GREEN of Peoria he moved to Danville, operating the Danville Floral Co. there until after her death in 1910. For nearly 20 years her has had the greenhouse in El Paso where he married Clara COOPER. He was a member of St. Andrew! 's Episcopal Church here in Peoria. Surviving are his wife, a daughter Margie Mary DUBUIS, and a sister, Mrs. Frances D. MEYER of Havana. Three brothers and a sister, John, Ernest and George DUBUIS and Mrs. Pearl D. OLSON, preceeded him in death. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Vincent Funeral Home in El Paso. Burial is to be in Springdale Cemetery. (SOURCE>Peoria Star, Wednesday, 4 August 1954) Pamela Villafuerte