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Harlan Porter Whitney Custer County Chief (Broken Bow) December 26, 1955

Funeral services for H. Porter Whitney of Custer Center will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Custer Center church.

Rev. Ralph Miller will officiate and burial will be in the Custer Center cemetery. Friends may call at the Schneringer and Johnson Funeral home in Broken Bow where the body lies in state until the services.
Mr. Whitney, a farmer in the Custer Center community and almost a lifetime resident, died Friday afternoon in a Broken Bow hospital. He was 74.

Survivors include his widow, Ollie, of Custer Center, a son, Bernard, also of Custer Center, and a daughter, Mrs. Ruth McCauley, of Grand Island.

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Harlan Porter Whitney Custer County Chief (Broken Bow) January 5, 1956

Harlan Porter Whitney, son of Joseph Vernon and Rebecca Ann Whitney, was born at Mt. Pleasant, Ia., May 14, 1881 and died at the Broken Bow hospital Dec. 23, 1955 at the age of 74 years and seven months.

He spent his early years in Iowa, Indiana, Arkansas and Missouri, coming with his parents to Custer county by covered wagon in 1901. They settled in the Custer Center community which has since been his home with the exception of five years when he lived on his Kinkaid homestead near Anselmo.
He was married June 18, 1913 to Ollie L. Street and to this union were born five children, of whom Burnard M. and Ruth Delight are living. The other three--Alveva, Charles and John Harlan--died at birth.
While in his teens, he was converted and joined the Methodist church at Conway, Ark., and upon coming to Nebraska joined the United Brethren church at Custer Center.

He leaves, in addition to his wife, his son, Burnard of Custer Center, daughter, Mrs. Robert McCauley of Grand Island, five grandchildren, John and Clifford Whitney, Robert, Bonnie and Libby Nan McCauley, one brother, Elgie V.. of Long Beach, Calif., an aged uncle, Milt Whitney of Denver, Colo., and a host of other relatives.

Funeral services were held at the Custer Center church Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 27. Arrangements were in charge of the Schneringer & Johnson Funeral Home. Services were in charge of Rev. R. R. Miller of Marquette. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Martin sang, with Mrs. Emory Beal at the piano.
Honorary pallbearers were Geo. Reeder, Emory Beal, C. L. Dietz and George Raymond. Active pallbearers were Ernest Rains, Wesley Hogaboom, Geo. Wiebusch, Kenneth Headley, Paul Dainton and Merritt Winchester. Burial was in Custer Center cemetery.