John Francis Ryan, proprietor of Ryan's Diner, 149 North street, died yesterday at Horton Hospital. He was a charter member of the Middletown Fife and Drum Corps.

Mr. Ryan was a member of Webb Horton Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wallkill Council, Jr. OUAM, Middletown Lodge of Odd Fellows and Martha Washington, Rebekah Lodge.

Mr. Ryan was born in Brooklyn December seventeenth, 1881, a son of John F. and Martha Ogden Ryan. He was married June twenty-seventh, 1907, in Brooklyn to Jennie E. Forthoffer.

He is survived by his wife, two sisters, Mrs. Martha Prey of Brooklyn and Mrs. Stella Robinson of New York; and nieces and nephews.

Martha Washington Lodge will have services Wednesday evening at 7:30 at Hasbrouck's Chapel, Odd Fellows, at 7:45, and Jr. OUAM at eight o'clock.

Mr. Ryan had been in business on North street, twenty-six years. He was a member of the Hudson Valley Fife, Bugle and Drum Corps.

Funeral services will be held at Hasbrouck Chapel Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Interment will be in the family plot, Wallkill cemetery, Phillipsburg.

Source: Middletown Times Herald Tuesday, June 1, 1943

Ryan family bible notes: John Francis Ryan is listed in the family bible as John Thomas Ryan in either his mother or father's handwritting. It says John Thomas Ryan born Dec. 17th, 1881 at 3 1/2 O.C. (O'clock) A.M. 10th St. Williamsburg, NY. Then it says John T. Ryan died May 30th, 1943, age 61 years.

Source: Family bible owned by submitter

Related Genealogy Resources:

• New York Genealogy Queries - CousinConnect.com

• New York City Directory, 1890

• New York Cemeteries - Interment.net

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