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Obituary Ulysses Reed Graves

U.R. Graves Passed Away at Home Here Tuesday
Resident of Malvern for Past 70 years

Death claimed another Malvern business man when Reed Graves, 77, a resident of Malvern since 1875, passed away at his home on Prospect avenue Tuesday noon, following a heart attack. He had been in usual health until the past two weeks and in that time suffered several slight attacks. He suffered a severe attack Monday evening from which he did not rally and death came at noon Tuesday.

Mr. Graves came to Malvern from Tennessee when a boy seven years old and has resided here since. He conducted a blacksmith shop from 1895 until April, 1944, when he retired. He was active in the work of the Methodist Church and Sunday school and the work of the Masonic order over a long period of years.

Surviving are his wife, Effie, his sone, Pfc. Ellis, one sister, Mrs. B.L. Byers, of San Pedro, Cal., two brothers, Cecil of Junction City, Kan., and Mark of Sterling, Colo.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow, Friday, afternoon at the Mansfield Funeral home.

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