Obit: McCarty, Justin #2 (1902 - 1956)

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Surnames: McCarty, Wilson, Farwell

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 01/31/1957

McCarty, Justin #2 (12 SEP 1902 - DEC 1956)

Funeral services for Justin McCarty, 54, St. Louis, Mo., were held Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 26, 1956, from the Grace Methodist Church in Greenwood.  The Rev. Ethel Nulton officiated.  Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Einar Jackson, Ervin Leach, Don Warner, William Niemi, Herbert Missling and Oscar Anderson.

During the services Mrs. Donald Ellingson of Janesville sang, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Don Warner.

Justin McCarty, son of Almon and Jessie McCarty, was born in Longwood (Clark Co., Wis.), Sept. 12, 1902.  He attended the Longwood school and graduated from Greenwood High School in 1920.  He resided in Longwood with his parents until 1937, when he was employed by the R.E.A.  He was married in 1939 to Myrtha Wilson at Osceola.

In 1941 Mr. McCarty was an engineer in the research department of the R.E.A. in the Matanuska Valley, Palmer, Alaska.  Upon his return to the states he worked for the Army Engineer Corps. And after 1944 he was employed by a private contractor.  The family moved to St. Louis, Mo. In 1944 where he worked until he became ill in July 1955.

He was a member of the Normandy Methodist Church and its Men’s Club, the McKinley School PTA and its men’s club of St. Louis, and the Electrical Estimator’s Society of Greater St. Louis.

Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Michael, of St. Louis; his mother, Mrs. Almon McCarty of Saginaw, Mich.; two sisters, Elizabeth McCarty and Mrs. Howard (Violet) Farwell of Saginaw, Mich.; and a brother, Allan McCarty of Fond du Lac.