The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-08-01
SERVICES FOR
DR.. HAvERFIELD
SITS. John Lodge No. 81.
A. F. and A. M. To
Conduct Rites

Funeral services for DR.. Lysle
Edward Haverfield, who passed
away at st. Vincent's hospital
in Billings at Ais pm. Monday
July 20, are being held at the
Masonic temple in Hardin at
200 pm. today.
The Rev. j. A. Meeke, pastor
of the Methodist church at Dill
lon, Mont, will officiate. The
Hardin Male Chorus, directed by
w. j. Brekke, with Mrs. Brekke
at the piano, will sing Near
Still Nearer" 10 Love That Wilt
Not Let Me Co." and "Abide
With Me-"
Interment will be in the Gus
ter Battlefield National ceme-
terry, where last rites will be
conducted by SITS. John Lodge
No. 90, AT. and A. Masons, of
which DR.. Haverfield was a
member. Past Master H. w.
Funston will act as worshipful
master.
Acting pallbearers will be
Thomas Macleod, Dell M. KEEL
ly, Ben J. Schmidt, Amt J.
Kalberg, M. B. Evenson and E.
c. Kuehn.
Honorary pallbears will be
members of the medical profess
sion of Hardin and Billings.
DR.. Lysle E. Haverfield was
born at Assumption, Ill, June
"a, 1896. He grew to manhood
there and attended the Assum-
ption grade and high schools.
He was graduated from high
school at the age of 16. After
teaching in the schools of that
community for two years, he
entered the University of St.
Louis, and was graduated from
the medical college of that in
%stitution in June, 1921.
Shortly after graduation, he
came to Hardin and entered the
practice of medicine with his
brother, DR.. Orville S. Haver-
field, who died December 6,
1923. Since that time, DR.. L.
E. Haverfield carried on the
practice alone.
He was a veteran of the
World War, having served in
the medical corps of the U. S.
army, from which he was hon.
orably discharged at st. Louis
at the close of the war.
He was a member of the Ma
sonic fraternity, the Hardin
Lions cub, the Big Horn County
Rod and Gun club, the Har-
din Chamber of Commerce, the
district and state Medical As
sociations and the Methodist
church.
For the past 20 years DR..
Haverfield had been a member
of the Hardin Fire department.
He had been for the past sew
era1 years chairman of the Big
Horn county Republican cen
trail committee and served this
county as representative in the
lower house of the Montana
legislative assembly from 1880
to 1898.
At Billings, September 10,
1922, he was married to Miss
Mary Ruse of Nampa, Idaho,
who with four children, Lysle
Edward, Jr., 16; Samuel Nash,
IA; Mary Jane, 7, and Judith
Ann, 4. and two sisters, Mrs. c.
E. McKitrick of Billings and
Mrs. w. S. KEGS of Bloomington,
H., survives.
DR.. Haverfield had been i'll
for the past several months. He
He received treatment at the
Mayo clinic at Rochester. Mimi,
Chicago. Bloomington, ILL.,, and
st. Louis. Mo. He underwent
a serious operation in st. Louis
last April, following complica-
lions from X-ray burns, from
which he never fully recovered.
The past four weeks he was
confined to St. Vincent's hos
pital in Billings.
The body was brought to Har-
din from Billings this morning,
and will lie in state in the lodge
room of the Masonic temple
from 10 am. until 2 pm, the
hour set for the funeral, which
will be under the direction of
the Bulls Crilly mortuary.