Harry George Huber Obituary

Reading Eagle on July 11,1941
Front Page News Reading, Pennsylvania H.G. HUBER, FORMER CITY SLEUTH, DIES
	Active Berks Democrat Throughout His Life.......Harry G. (Dutch) Huber, 62, of 1218[?] Douglass St., former Reading captain of detectives and an active member of the Democractic Party in Reading and Berks County, died at ? a.m. today in St. Joseph's Hospital. Huber was a patient at the hospital early in June, but returned home when his condition improved. On Monday he was again admitted to the hospital after he suffered a relapse. Most of his life Huber was connected with the Democratic Party. In earlier years he was a cement and concrete contractor. When he was 34 years old, he obtained an appointment to the Reading police force, succeeding a policeman who had resigned. During the administration of Mayor Edward H. Filbert, Huber was made a member of the detective force, and when the plain-clothes division was reorganized as a separate unit in January, 1916, he was named by city council to head the detective bureau. Huber held this position until February 20, 1929 when J. Henry Stump, then mayor of Reading, introduced in council an ordinance to abolish the position of captain of detectives and to place the detective bureau under the supervision of the chief of police. On January 10, 1940, he was again appointed to a public office when he was made foreman of the municipal asphalt plant. Shortly afterwards, in July of the same year, an ordinance was introduced in city council to abolish the job of foreman of the plant inasmuch as the city gave paving and asphalt contracts to private companies, eliminating the need of a municipal plant. Before the ordinance became effective Huber resigned on September 18, 1940, and lived in retirement until his death this morning. A WAR VETERAN.....He was a Spanish-American War veteran, a member of St. Stephen's Reformed Church, Hampden Fire Company and Relief Association; Fraternal Order of Orioles, Nest 2, Reading, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie 66, also of this city. He was a member of the Twelfth Ward, Sixteenth Ward and Eighteenth Ward Democratic associations, the Americus Club, Young Men's Democratic Association of Berks County, Jefferson Democratic Association and the West Reading Democratic Association. Huber's wife, the late Kathryn (Engle), died 25 years ago. Surviving are eight children, Pauline, wife of John Haag, Easton; Helen, wife of Joseph Kuhns, Reading; Violet, wife of Arthur Potteiger, West Reading; Grace, wife of James Mengel; Earl, Thomas and Howard, all of Reading, and Filbert, of Easton, and 12 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1:30 o'clock in the Lutz Funeral Home, the Rev. Morris D. Slifer officiating. Burial will be in Aulenbach Cemetary.