Memorial services were held at the Presbyterian church at 3 o'clock sunday afternoon for Private George Beryl Ouren, 124 Fourth Street, who died of pneumonia, November 2, at Base Hospital No. 46, in the foothills of the Alps in France.

Mr. Ouren enlisted in South Dakota, February 12, 1918, with headquarters company in the Fourth division. He had been in the banking business in South Dakota for five years previous to that time, and was 30 years of age at the time of his death. He, with his brother, Second Lieutenant Horace Ouren, who has his honorable discharge from the service at Fort Sill, and his sister, Mrs. Bernice Lewis, were graduates of the Council Bluffs High School. His mother died two years ago.

Emmett Tinley and Dr. Frederick W. Evans made the addresses at the service in his honor Sunday afternoon. Mr. Tinley's talk having to do with the patriotic and military phase of Mr. Ouren's career and Dr. Evans with the more personal and comforting things. The Elks quartet sang "Nearer My God to Thee," Blue Star Turned to Gold," and "Still, Still With Thee."

The Unit K Club, Ladies of the Dodge Engineers and Company L Comfort Club attended the service in a body.