Andrew Eugene O'Hara
Kentucky Post, Friday, 12 February 1937, page 1
BACK HOME-Beads of sweat trickled down their backs. It was a day in the spring of 1916. The sun beat unmercifully on four boys as they paddled their crude boat up the Licking River, out for fun and fishing. But Old Man River, the Ohio, was on a minor sort of rampage, and he kicked back his muddy waters into the Licking and its backwaters "knocked out" a days sport for four boys in a boat. Disappointed they started back. Nearing the 11th Street Bridge, Andy, he was the owner of the craft, guided it to the river's edge."Fellows, I'm gonna leave you out here," he said. I"Think I'll push on a little further."
His companions pulled out. They gave the customary so long and watched the incoming ripples roll to shore as Andy nosed his boat toward the channel. "See you boys later on sometime."
Yesterday the body of Andrew O'Hara was returned to his home in Bellevue Ky. He died Jan 29 at Los Angeles, Cal. Following his disappearance in 1916, he enlisted and remained in the army for the duration of the World War. No word of him reached home until five years ago. A letter to him in Los Angeles arrived to late. At Nogales, Ariz. in February last year, he applied for his bonus. That was the last record the family had of him.
Funeral services will be held at the Vonderhaar & Stetter funeral home, Newport, tomorrow at 8:30 am with Requiem High Mass at St Anthony Church at 9 am. Burial will be in St Stephen Cemetery. Mr. O'Hara leaves his father, Edward O'Hara Sr. and eight brothers, Edward, Donald, George, William, Gerald, Frank, Henry and Albert O'Hara, and three good pals, former boat companions.