Harry Nelson Montanye |
HARRY NELSON MONTANYE
The funeral of Harry Nelson Montanye was held on Friday afternoon [6 May 1938] at the Ray Montanye home near Baraboo, Rev. Henke officating. Hymns were sung by Wallace Bass who was accompanied by Chester White. The pallbearers, pals and school chums, were Clifford Voight, Donald McQueen, Charles Collins, James Kieler, Charles Schluter and Perry Francisco. Mrs. Butterfield and Mrs. Doering handled the flowers. Burial was made in the Butterfield Cemetery.
Harry was botrn on the Sol De-Koeyer farm in the town of Delton on the 13th day of November in the year 1917. He attended grade school at the Mirror Lake and Upper Webster Prairie schools. He attended the Baraboo High school for three years. When he was eleven years old, he began to caddy at the Dellview golf course and from that time on the boy had been practically independent. He bought his own clothes, etc. At the age of 17 he worked as a bellhop at the Dellview hotel in Lake Delton. ; From there he went to the Warren Hotel in Barabook where he was employed until he left sometime in the latter part of May 1937.
From there he went to Milwaukee where he was employed by the Union News company in the River View Hotel which is located in the Chicago Northwestern depot. About a month and a half ago he left Milwaukee. From he went to the following places: Chicago, Ill.; Hannibal, MO, several places in Kansas, Montana, and Salt Lake City. From that place he went to Denver, Colorado. He liked that the best of any place he had been through and he found work immediately, as a chef in one of the largest restaurants there. He stayed for about a month. While he was in Denver, he roomed with a fellow by the name of Curtis Lewis whose home is in Princeton, KY. On Friday, April 29th, both boys left. They were enroute for Detroit where Mr. Lewis had many kinfolks. As they passed through Cheyenne, WY, Harry mailed a picture post card to every member of his family. He only traveled about one hundred miles from there when he was killed by accidentally stepping on a lever which released all cars, 10 cars from the engine, in doing this the air brakes were applied immediately and the abrupt stopping threw the boy, killing him instantly.
Surviving him are his mother, Flora, father Arthur, sisters, Margaret and Arlene, and brother Lloyd; his grandmother, several aunts, uncles, cousins, and hosts of friends. Out -of-town relatives attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Montanye of Janesville; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Golding of Madison, and Mrs. Mabel Hoonsbeen of Chicago.