Emeline
Engler
Children
George Rufus Sherry
Bertha L. Stevenson
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Notes:
Easton Express, Saturday, September 27, 1930, Page 1
Mr. Sherry was a director of Easton Dallar Savings & Trust
Company and the City Ice Company. He was formerly treasurer of
the Easton Merchants Ice Company; a director of the Northampton
Building & Loan Association; a director of the Doyles-DeCosta
Company, now the coilton Electric Manufacturing Company; a former
director of the Third Street Theatre cCompany and Northampton
Amusement Comany; former treasurer of the Rure Disteilled Waster
Ice Company, and a director of the Quako Bottling company of
this city. He was vice president of the Beneficial Loan Assoiciation.
As a Mason Mr. Sherry was prominent and two yers ago at Boston,
he was crowned a 33rd Degree Mason. He was a member and past
master ofDallas Lodge, No. 396, F. and A. M.; Easton Chapter,
No. 173, Royal ARch Masons; Pomp Council, No. 20, Royal and
Select Master Masons; Hugh dePayens Commandery, No. 19, Knights
Templar; Philadelphia Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons: Rajah
Templ.e, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,Reading; Columbia Lodge,
No. 139, O. O. O. F.; Easton Aeerie, No. 111, Fraternal Order
of Eagles, South Easton Council, 590, Fraternal Patriotic Americans;
Easton Board of Trade and pomfret Club. During the World War,
he joined the Victory Drummers and was much interested in that
organization.
Mr. Sherry was married three dtimes. His first wife was Miss
Harriet Beidler, a daughter of of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Beidler, to who he was married on June 2, 1882. She died August
13, 1901, he married Miss Emma Engler, daughter of John and
Nellie Engler, who died about ten years ago.
He is survived by his widow, who was formerly Miss Bertha
Stevenson, of Phillispburg, and by one son by his sceond marriage,
George Rufus Sherry, of Cleveland, Ohio. He also leaves one
brther, Samuel W. Sherry, of Bethelhem, and one sister, Mrs.
Margaret Dailey, of Philadelphia.
Mr. Sherry was the personal representative in Easton of Potentate
George F. Eisenbrown, of Rajah Temple, Reading, Nobles, of
the Mystic Shrine and was a delegate from Rajah Temple to a
number of the national conventiosn of the Shriners. In June
he was at the Shrine Convention at Toronto. On Frebruary 6,
1928, a celebration was held at the Hotel Easton in honor of
Mr. Sherry's 70's birthday and the affair was attended by Potentate
Eisenbrown and prominent Shriners from all over the State.
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