Middlesex County Newspaper Abstracts

Woburn Times, 13 February 1939

FORMER WOBURN MAN DIED ON WEST COAST

The many Woburn friends of William Harkins, a native and former well known resident of Woburn, will be sorry to learn of his death last Friday at Seattle, Washington, at the Providence Hospital there, following a short illness.
Mr. Harkins, who was born in Woburn, Mass., left Woburn almost thirty years ago, and was employed by the United States Government in Juneau, Alaska, as a salmon breeder, for the Government fisheries.
The funeral was held in Seattle this morning and he will be interred there. The full details of his passing are not yet available by his family here. On Friday morning, February 17th, a High Mass of Requiem for the deceased will be celebrated at St. Charles Church, Woburn, at 8'o'clock.
Mr. Harkins leaves one sister, Mrs. James Nolan of this city, and three brothers, Hugh, Bernard and John Harkins, all of Woburn.

FORMER WOBURN MAN DIED ON WEST COAST
The many Woburn friends of William Harkins, a native and former well known resident of Woburn, will be sorry to learn of his death last Friday at Seattle, Washington, at the Providence Hospital there, following a short illness. Mr. Harkins, who was born in Woburn, Mass., left Woburn almost thirty years ago, and was employed by the United States Government in Juneau, Alaska, as a salmon breeder, for the Government fisheries. The funeral was held in Seattle this morning and he will be interred there. The full details of his passing are not yet available by his family here. On Friday morning, February 17th, a High Mass of Requiem for the deceased will be celebrated at St. Charles Church, Woburn, at 8'o'clock. Mr. Harkins leaves one sister, Mrs. James Nolan of this city, and three brothers, Hugh, Bernard and John Harkins, all of Woburn.

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1939 Newspaper Abstracts
Middlesex County Massachusetts

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