This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beebe, Sutch, Wilson, Wicker Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZB.2ACI/772 Message Board Post: From The Painesville Telegraph Painesville, Ohio (Lake County) Thursday, August 9, 1945 Horace E. Beebe, Veteran Fireman, Dies At Age Of 65 WILLOUGHBY. Aug. 9 - Horace E. Beebe, 65, who had been a member of the Willoughby village fire department for 45 years, died early today of a heart attack at his home, 2 Woodside Ave., Willoughby. Services will be held in the Davis Funeral home at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dr. C. P. Barnes, pastor of Willoughby Methodist church, officiating Burial will be in Mentor cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Tressia; daughter, Mrs. Marion Wilson, Mentor; brothers, George and Raymond, Willoughby; sister, Mrs. Mabel E. Wilson, Willoughby. Two brothers and a sister are deceased - Harry and Edward, And Mrs. Estella Wicker. For the last 16 years Mr. Beebe had been employed by the Cleveland equipment works of the General Electric Co. Previously for 20 years he worked at the former American Clay and Machine Co., Willoughby. He was a member of the Eagles lodge at Willoughby. Mr. Beebe was born Dec. 15, 1879, in Wickliffe, but spent most of his life in Willoughby. Had he lived, Mr. and Mrs. Beebe would have celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary Aug. 19. (same newspaper, Thursday, August 16, 1945) Funeral Services Conducted For Horace E. Beebe WILLOUGHBY, Aug. 16. - Six nephews; Kenneth and Norman Eddy, Marshall Heidelberg, E. P. Gustafson, Gordon Topping and E. C. Neal, were pallbearers when funeral services were held Saturday for Horace E. Beebe, who died of a heart attack Thursday - at his home, Woodside Rd., Willoughby. The Rev. Clyde P. Barnes, Willoughby Methodist church pastor, officiated at the services held here at the Davis Funeral home, and burial was made in Mentor cemetery. In his funeral address, the pastor spoke of the profusion of beautiful flowers, which he said were a testimonial of the many friends the deceased had in the community and among those with whom he worked. The son of Ezra and Maria Beebe, pioneer residents of the county, Mr. Beebe was born Dec. 15, 1879, in Wickliffe, where he attended the local schools. Later, the family moved to Willoughby and, for the past 45 years, he was a member of the village fire department, retaining this membership at the time of his death. For 22 years, he was employed as machinist at the American Clay Machinery Co., which later became the Hadfield-Penfield Co. He served as street commissioner of the village until November, 1929, when he was employed by the General Electric Co. of Cleveland. He was united in marriage with Tressi Sutch on Aug. 19, 1903, who survives, as does their daughter, Marion, (Mrs. Horace Wilson) of Mentor. A sister, Mrs. A. T. Wilson, and two brothers, George and Raymond, live in Willoughby. Another sister, Mrs. Stella Wicker and two brothers, Henry and Edward, preceded him in death.