Donald Edwin Huras^[1]

1927 - 1956  (28 years)

• Name	Donald Edwin Huras
  Born	17 May 1927	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Misfortune	17 May 1927	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	murdered
  Crime	1956
  	murdered
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142287354
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-80351
  Died	27 Apr 1956	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I80351	Generations
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Edwin Daniel Huras,   b. 25 Mar 1897, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Sep 1986, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 89 years)
  Mother	Flora Dorothy Lautenschlaeger,   b. 4 Feb 1901, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Jun 1985, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 84 years)
  Married	6 Jul 1921	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F44382	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Norma Jessie Browne,   b. 1925,   d. 15 Jun 2002, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2024
  Family ID	F49223	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Plan Separate Rites for Shooting Victims Separate funeral services will be conducted Monday for the three dead in yesterday's shooting at Waterloo Spring Company, Ltd. Services for Donald Huras, 27, and Frederick Beilstein, 41, will be conducted in the afternoon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church by Rev. Arthur Eissfeldt. The body of Mr. Beilstein will be at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home until 11 am Monday when it will be removed to the church where friends may pay their respects until the service at 2 pm. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery. Same Funeral Home The body of Mr. Huras will be at the same funeral home until Monday at 2 pm. The service will be at the church at 3:30 pm. Interment will be in Memory Gardens. Both Mr. Huras and Mr. Beilstein were members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Mr. Huras is survived by his wife, the former Norma Browne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Huras; Waterloo, three brothers, Roy and James, Kitchener; Weyburn, Waterloo; and one sister, Mrs. Donald (Dorothy) Mairs, Rexdale, Ont. Mr. Beilstein is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Beilstein, Kitchener; five brothers, William, Hugo, Arthur, Robert, all of Kitchener; Richard, Waterloo; two sisters, Mrs. Karl Kurt, Jefferson, Ohio, and Mrs. Herbert Parker, Kitchener. Service at 9 A.M. The body of Frank Riem, 35, will be at the Gruhn Funeral Home where the rosary will be recited tomorrow at 8 pm. Prayers will be said Monday at 8:30 am and the service will be at St. Mary's RC Church at 9 am. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery. Mr. Riem was born in Yugoslavia in 1920 and came to Canada in 1927. He was a member of St. Mary's RC Church. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mathies Riem, Kitchener; four brothers, Matthew and Fred, Kitchener; Martin, Los Angeles, Calif.; Anthony, Hawkesville and one sister, Mrs. Anne De Martin, Kitchener. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Apr 28 1956 pg 1

  
  

• Sources

  [S74] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Kitchener-Waterloo Record (1948-1994), Obituary of Edwin D. Huras - 5 Sep 1986.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 17 May 1927 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Misfortune - murdered - 17 May 1927 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 27 Apr 1956 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth