James Dufur Berry, Jr. and Helen Jean Holst

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Husband James Dufur Berry, Jr. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 25 Mar 1914 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
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           Died: Nov 1986 - ? Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Father: James Dufur Berry (1878-1941) 1 3 4 5
         Mother: Helen Caroline Robinson (1888-1954) 3 4 6

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       Marriage: 2 Jan 1937 - ? Venango Co, PA 2

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Wife Helen Jean Holst ²

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           Born:  - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA
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         Father: Leo J. Holst (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Florence Gay Critchlow (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M James Dufur Berry III ²

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           Born: 20 Aug 1938 2
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2 M Michael Truby Berry ²

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           Born: 28 Feb 1941 2
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General Notes: Husband - James Dufur Berry, Jr.

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He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Oil City, Pennsylvania, and went from high school to the Hill School, in Pottstown, from which he was graduated in 1934. It was natural in view of family tradition that he should enter the oil industry and his interests have always centered in that industry. In establishing the “D” Oil Company, a producing organization, he demonstrated the enterprising spirit characteristic of his family and has since directed its operations as president and general manager. He was also a director of the Quaker State Oil Company and after his father's death on April 1, 1941, took over the administration of the widespread Berry interests in oil. He was a member of the Wanango Country Club and the Second Presbyterian Church of Oil City, in which his father and grandfather were active, and found his principal recrea­tions in fishing, hunting and golf. In politics he was a Republican.

SSDI: BERRY, JAMES 25 Mar 1914 Nov 1986 72 16341 (Pleasantville, Venango, PA) (none specified) Pennsylvania

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General Notes: Wife - Helen Jean Holst

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She was educated in the Titusville public schools and the high school at Winter Haven, Florida, and later attended Maryland College for Women and Mary Bald­win College.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 641.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 85.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 983.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 227.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 83.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 84.