William Francis Flannery
Kentucky Post, Monday, 3 March 1941, page 1
Requiem High Mass for William Flannery, 48, Bellevue, identified for many years with the hotel business in Cincinnati, will be sung at 9 am Wednesday at St Anthony Church, Bellevue. Services will be held at 8:30 am at the Betz Funeral home. Burial will be in St Joseph Cemetery, Cincinnati.
Mr. Flannery, a World War veteran, died Saturday night at his home, 306 Covert Run pike, following a heart attack. He was placed in an oxygen tent for one hour by the Dayton Life Squad, which had been summoned. Members of James Wallace Cositgan Post, American Legion, Newport, will conduct services at 7:30 pm Tuesday at the funeral home.
Prior to his retirement from the hotel business because of ill health, he served as room clerk at the Grand and Sinton hotels, as assistant manager at the Gibson Hotel and night manager at the Palace Hotel. During the World War Mr. Flannery saw service with the navy, being stationed at the Great Lakes Traning Station, Chicago. He was a member of the Fourth Ward Boosters Club, Bellevue.
He leaves his widow, Elsie Hering Flannery; three daughters, Peggy, Mary and Shirley Flannery; his mother Mrs. Mary Flannery, Philadelphia and one sister Mrs. Catherine Borgemenke, Philadelphia.