Oliver Lee Corbin |
| Posted 2017-12-11 by Pat R |
| Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Friday, February 7, 1936, p. 1 Rev. Corbin Is Laid To Rest Schools Are Dismissed and Teaching Staff Attends Services in Phoenix Funeral services were held at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Memory chapel of A. L. Moore & Sons, Phoenix, for the Rev. Oliver Lee Corbin, who passed away here Tuesday night after a long illness, at the home of his son, Oliver L. Corbin, Jr. The Rev. Fred Line, pastor of the First Congregational church of Phoenix spoke, and two hymns, "O, Love That Will Not Let Me Go" and "O, Master, Let Me Walk With Thee" were sung. Burial was in Greenwood Memorial cemetery. The pall bearers were R. S. Eimicke, J. R. Barnette, John O'Brien, L. P. Johnson, L. F. Coor and H. K. MacLennan. The Wickenburg schools were dismissed out of respect to Reverend Corbin, and the teachers attended the services in a body, as well as many friends of the family in Wickenburg. Mr. Corbin, who was 72 years old, was born in Highland, W. Va., and had been a minister in the Congregational church for 45 years at the time of his resignation, three years ago. He and Mrs. Corbin came to Wickenburg two and one-half years ago from Wichita, Kan. Mr. Corbin was a graduate of the Theological Seminary at Adrian, Mich., and a member of the Masonic lodge and the I.O.O.F., holding membership in both lodges at Anthony, Kan. During his years of service, he was the pastor of churches in Douglas, Wyoming, Creed, Colo., Buena Park, Perris and San Francisco, Calif.; Anthony, Kan., Manchester and Waynoka, Okla. The survivors are his wife, Anna B. Corbin, two sons, George E. of Wichita, Kan., and Oliver L., who has been a teacher here for the past five years; two grandchildren, Joan Lee Corbin, Los Angeles, and Lee Lelatour Corbin, Wickenburg, and a brother and two sisters in the east. See Also: Find A Grave |
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