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Notes for Charles F. Sr. WORRILOW
C. F. Worrilow Oldest Fireman, Dies At 94
Charles F. Worrilow, Sr., celebrating his ninety-fourth birthday last May Day leaned hard over the glittering birthday cake with its nine candles which his family had brought him, made a wish to see the century mark of his life and to quote him, "blew the whole bloody business out."
Death broke that birthday wish Saturday.
Mr. Worrilow, who lived at the Graham Nursing Home at 604 East Fourteenth street, Chester, became seriously ill last Wednesday and death came Saturday afternoon.
Born May 1, 1850, in Rockdale, Mr. Worrilow, a ruddy-faced man with a ready wit, had always considered that little town his home in spite of the many years which had gone by since he lived there. He was only 11 years old when the Civil War broke out and fired with patriotic enthusiasm, he beseeched his mother to let him go as a drummer boy. His mother consented and even took him to Philadelphia to enlist, but they wouldn't take him. He was old enough, they told him – but too small.
Mr. Worrilow was the oldest living member of the Moyamensing Hook and Ladder Company and considered himself an active member up to his death. He was one of the founders of the "Rockdale Boys," an organization of old-time residents of that community. He was short-stop on the Union Baseball Club's team in Rockdale and as a boy used to spend his spring and summer evenings playing ball in a vacant lot as long as the daylight lasted.
After working some years in a mill in Rockdale, Mr. Worrilow moved to 1107 Upland street and became a letter carrier for the Chester Postoffice. He carried letters from the B. and O. Railroad tracks to "the end of the line." Then one of the longest mail routes in the city. He served in the postoffice for 35 years and was a member of the National Association of Letters Carriers.
He was an enthusiastic lodge man and was a member of the L. H. Scott Masonic Lodge in Chester and the Benevolent Lodge of Odd Fellows in Rockdale, having served in all of the officers' chairs of that lodge. He was a staunch Republican.
He married Elizabeth Andrews and they celebrated their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary before her death seven years ago. He is survived by three sons, William Henry Worrilow, president of a steel mill in Lebanon, and one of the state's 35 presidential electors; Charles F. Worrilow, Jr. of Ridley Park, and ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon from the funeral home of John H. Clancy, of Broad and Upland streets, Chester, and burial will follow in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight.
Chester Times, Monday, Oct 2, 1944 Page 1 and 2
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