This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Daniels Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zJB.2ACE/1965.1 Message Board Post: These are available online from: www.stjoenews-press.com Here is the direct link. http://www.stjoenews-press.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=13830&SectionID=81&SubSectionID=276&S=1 Orville L. Daniels 1919-2001 Orville L. Daniels, 81, St. Joseph, died Monday, March 5, 2001, at his residence. For 37 years, Mr. Daniels had been employed as a carpenter for Mead Products in St. Joseph until retiring in 1985. During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps. Born in Barnard, Mo., on Dec. 2, 1919, he was reared in the Rochester Falls, Mo., area. After military service, he lived in Omaha, Neb., for four years prior to moving to St. Joseph in 1946. Mr. Daniels was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1668, Pony Express American Legion Post No. 359, Eagles Lodge and Paper Worker’s Union. He also had been active in Boy Scouts of America as a scout master for 15 years and as a member of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. On Jan. 20, 1944, he married Alma M. Clark in Atchison, Kan. She died in 1988. Mr. Daniels also was preceded in death by his father, Jefferson Daniels; his mother, Mary E. Stephens; two brothers, Marvin and Cliford; and a sister, Lelah Tracy. Surviving: two sons, Vernon and Michael, both of St. Joseph; a sister, Elsie Daniels, Warsaw, Mo.; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Service: 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Gladden-Stamey Funeral Home, St. Joseph. Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Joseph. Visitation: after 9 a.m. today, at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight. Memorials may be made to the St. Joseph branch of Boy Scouts of America.