, After a rather short illness which was not thought by the majority of our people to be serious, Daniel Harney passed away Thursday (Thanksgiving morning) at the Savanna City Hospital, death being attributed to a heart attack. For a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Harney have been residents of our community, coming here from McConnell, Ill., where Mr. Harney was a rural mail carrier before being transferred to Thompson. They have been ideal citizens of the village and Mr. Harney has taken an active interest in the affairs of the community; especially in the local Methodist church of which he was a deacon and served as Sunday school teacher until his health did no permit him to continue with his church duties. His interests were not confined to the church alone and he was always seen at meetings of the York Club, was interested in the schools and in the county rural mail carriers association.
Mr. Harney’s work as rural carrier was never questioned and he performed his daily task with a faithfulness that won for him the admiration and esteem of those whom he served throughout this territory. His loyalty to his church, his friendship to all York people and his sincerity and belief in whatever undertaking he might have been engaged in at any time, was well shown at his services, for every seat was filled and many remained standing during the fine tribute which Rev. Longdoc paid him. Thompson has lost a valuable citizen and men of Daniel Harney’s caliber are not an every day occurrence in any community.
Daniel Harney was born in New York City, Aug. 19, 1879. He came to Illinois ten years later and made his home with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ranslow Furray at McConnell, Stephenson county. He was educated in the schools of that place and later attended the Northern Illinois teachers’ College at DeKalb. He then entered the teaching profession and taught for several years in the schools near McConnell. He later secured a position as rural mail carrier in which occupation he has been engaged for the past 25 years. He was transferred to the Thomson route in 1918, where he has since served. While on his route during the hot weather last summer he was taken seriously ill and only recently was able to again take up the work which he was so skilled in doing. He was married Feb. 20, 1907 to Miss Tillie Stamm at McConnell who survives him, with a brother James Harney of McConnell and four niece. He united with the Methodist church when a boy and has held positions in church and Sunday school since coming here. He was also affiliated with the I.O.O.F. order at Orangeville, Ill.
Funeral services were held Sunday at the home at 1:30 p.m. and the Methodist Episcopal church at 2 o’clock with Rev. E.S. Langdoc of Rockford, pastor of the church here, in charge. Rev. Clark Williams of Mt. Morris, a former pastor here, assisted in the services. Mrs. N.D. French and Miss Winnie Holland with Louise St. Ores at the piano sang: “Rock of Ages’, ‘Face to Face’, ‘God Will Take Care of You”. The casket attendants, all rural mail carriers, were Ferdinand Grim of savanna, H.L. Eby of Shannon, Roscoe Dial of Chadwick, Claude Crouse of Mt. Carroll and Ivan Carroll and Otto Switzer of the local postoffice. Internment was in Lower York cemetery. Names of friends who attended the funeral of Daniel Harney from a distance: Milton Stamm and family, Frank Stamm and son, Charley Matter, Mrs. Belville, all from Staver, Wisc., also Ezra Stamm and wife, Howard Lawler, Rock Grove, Ill., Amos Phillip and wife, Dakota, Ill., Ammon Moyer and family, Harvey Matter and family, Mrs. Isaac gross and family, Orangeville, Ill., Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hartman of Mt. Carroll, Ill., Russell Stamm, Nettie Stamm, Bessie Bower, Jonathan Stamm, Katie Stamm, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Stamm, Mrs. Lulu Korth, Mrs. Frank Young, Mr. and Mrs. James Harney and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Hulbert and daughter Jessie, Mrs. Mary Jane Turray and son, Mary Jane Wells, Mrs. Howard Price, Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Stamm, Amelia McDaniel, Mr. Elmer Stamm, Mr. Arthur Rabe, Lewis Rabe, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith, all from McConnell and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reim, Orangeville, Ill. Others from Fulton, Mt. Carroll and nearby.
Card of Thanks:
We wish to take this means of thanking our many friends for their acts of kindness during the illness and death of our husband and brother, Daniel Harney. We are very grateful to the I.O.O.F. lodge, pallbearers, to the singers, and also for the beautiful floral offerings, to those who furnished cars and to Rev. Longdoc for his comforting words. Those who assisted in any way, will always have a warm place in our heart.
Contributed by Dan Cover
Thompson Review. Volume XXXIII, Thursday, December 3, 1931. Front page
EDWARD C. HOLY