Horace W. Mann

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Rites Saturday for H.W. Mann
   Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. last Saturday at the Crowley Community Baptist church for Horace W. Mann, well-known Crowley druggist who passed away suddenly January 5 from a heart attach. He was 55. Burial was in Valley View cemetery, Ordway.
   Horace W. Mann, son of Rev. H.F. Mann and Mrs. Ida May Mann was born in Piqua, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1899 and departed this life Jan. 5, 1955 of a heart attack.
   In Oct., 1903 he moved with his family to Rifle, Colo. He attended grade school in Rifle, then in 1912 the family moved to Craig, Colo. Mr. Mann graduated from the Craig High School. In 1923 he graduated from the School of Pharmacy of Colo. Univ. in Boulder.
   The following six years he was employed by Mr. M.V. Howell in drug stores in Brighton adn Fort Morgan, Colo.
   In Aug. of 1929 he bought the drug store in Crowley where he has since lived and worked among the people of the community. In his quiet and unassuming way he moved about helping people whenever and wherever possible.
   June 7th, 1935 he was united in marriage to Violet Bond Rolls.
   In July 1942 Mr. Mann enlisted in the United States Navy serving as a Pharmacists mate until 1945. Returning to his home he again operated his drug store.
   In March 1951 he united with the Crowley Community Baptist Church. He was a member of the Le Master Butler Post 94 American Legion, Ordway, Colo.
   Mr. Mann was preceded in death by his father, the Rev. H.F. Mann in 1938, and by his mother, Mrs. Ida May Mann, Nov. 28th, 1954.
   He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, Violet, and a niece of the family home; a sister, Mrs. R.O. Smith of Rifle, Colo.; four nieces; five nephews; four great nieces and two great nephews.