SCARLET FEVER FATAL
George H. Boury, World War Veteran, Dies of
Disease
George
H. Boury, aged 32, 610 East Linn street, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Boury, 808
Bromley street, and a veteran of the warld war, died at 2 o’clock, this morning
of scarlet fever. He had been sick only a week.
George
Hezikiah Boury was born May 10, 1890, at Omaha. He was united in marriage to
Mrs. Bertha McCool, Oct. 10, 1920. He entered the service July 24, 1918 and was
stationed at Camp Pike, Ark. He went overseas with Company 26, Sept. A.R.D. and
in France served in Company 5, Ordnance Repair Shop.
Besides
his father and mother, two step-children Leonard and Arminta McCool, and two
sisters and two brothers survive. The latter are Mrs. T.J. Kendall and John C.
and Frank Boury, City; and Mrs. Henry Osdale, Ames (Story County). Four half-brothers,
Charles, Dan, Roy and Sam Elery also are living.
Burial was to be at 4:30 this afternoon in Riverside.
---Marshalltown Times-Republican, Monday, Feb. 26, 1923, page 11