Pittsburg, Kansas Newspaper, April 3, 1941. Funeral services for Carl Oscar Pingry, Sr., 64, prominent in the law profession in Pittsburg for 35 years, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack late yesterday afternoon, will be at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Mirza Temple, 110 ½ West Fifth. Interment will be in Mt. Olive Cemetery. Ellsworth is in charge of arrangements and the body will remain at the chapel until time for the service.

Mr. Pingry was born Sept. 23, 1876, in Jay County, Indiana. His father, Rev. Thomas Pingry, was a Methodist minister, and the family lived in many cities in the Middlewest during his childhood.

He was graduated from high school at Osawatomie and went to Baker University for a time, then in a college in western Missouri, where he was graduated. He taught in a school in Greenwood County, Kansas, and came to Pittsburg in about 1896 to teach here for a year before enlisting to serve in the Spanish-American War.

He served with the Twentieth Kansas Infantry, Company D, in the Philippines. Recently Mr. Pingry said he was one of the few living members of Company D in the county. He returned to this vicinity after the war and taught for six years in schools at Litchfield and Midway and served for a time as principal of the school in Chicopee.

In 1903 Mr. Pingry began work on a law degree at the University of Kansas and was graduated from there in 1906. He had practiced in Pittsburg since. Here he served as city attorney several times, was past president of the Crawford County Bar Association and at one time was assistant county attorney. He revised the city statutes several years ago.

Mr. Pingry was a member of all Masonic organizations; the Blue Lodge, the Chapter and Montjoie Commandery here and the Consistory at Fort Scott. He was a member of Mirza Temple of the Shrine and a past master of the Blue Lodge. He was a founder of the Court of Royal Jesters. For many years he had taken an oratorical part in ceremonials of Mirza Temple. He was once exalted ruler of the B.P.O.E., a member of the Eagles Lodge, of the United Spanish War Veterans, the Crawford County Bar Association, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mary Maud Pingry of the home; a son Carl Oscar Pingry, Jr. of 1009 South Walnut; two grandsons, three sisters Mrs. Lou Davis of Joplin, Mrs. Robert Howlett of St. Louis, and Mrs. Dorsey Spencer of El Monte, Calif., and a brother, A. J. Pingry of Dallas.

James A. Allen, Chanute, lawyer and a friend of Mr. Pingry for many years, will speak at the services. Mr. Pingry a number of years ago had made reciprocal arrangements with Mr. Allen concerning the funeral of the first to die.

Active pallbearers will include William Hamilton of Weir, D.G. Smith of Girard, J. Bennett, E. Nulton, Ben W. Weir, and F. W. Brinkerhoff. Those who will serve as honorary pallbearers are George F. Breezley of Girard, Fred Gerkin of Girard, Fred Beckley of Osawatomie, A.B. Hookins of Independence, Douglas Hudson of Fort Scott, R. L. Letton, T.F. Cole, C.F. Spencer, Max Frohlich, J.J. Nesch, A.B. Keller, W.R. McCormick, Joe Scott, Jay N. Patmor and L. M. Resler.

All law offices in the county, the district court and offices of the court clerk will close at noon tomorrow for the funeral and will remain closed for the remainder of the day.