OBITUARY OF
ff%x WILLIAM T. HEAItSS
William. Thomas Bearss, eldest son
of Benjamin Bearss and Dora Cheney
Bearss, was born May 12, 1899, in
Han-is township, Ottawa county, Ohio,
in which home he spent his entire life.
He received his elementary educa¬
tion in the home school after which he
atteWed .the Oak Harbor, high school
and the Ottawa County'riormal, from
which institution he graduated with
high honors.
On May II, 1913, he united with the
Methodist Episcopal church at Oak
Harbor. For a long time he was sec¬
retary of the Sunday school and a
faithful worker in the Epworth.
League. He served as delegate to the
League convention in several in¬
stances.
He enlisted in the Medical Corps on
May 13, 1918, and served with the
medical detachment of the 55th Infan¬
try, 7th Division, for thirteen months,
ten of which were spent overseas.
Upon his return from service in
France he resumed teaching. For the
past three years he has been teaching
at Plasterbed and Gypsum, Ohio.
He was taken ill Christmas eve with
grippe which developed into pleurisy
and. later into doub'e pneumonia, the
( TecU oi' which caused his death the
evening of January 4, 1922, at the age
o!' 22 years, 7 mouths and 22 days.
He leaves to mourn his untimely
death a devoted father and mother,
two sisters, one brother, a grand¬
mother, besides a host of other rela¬
tives and friends.
