Paul Edgar Everett

EVERETT, CAMPBELL, BROWN

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 4/15/2012 at 17:59:45

Paul Edgar Everett, 83, son of Charles G. and Carrie E. Campbell Everett, was born March 30, 1906, on a farm east of Nodaway and died Dec. 9, 1989, at Mercy Hospital in Corning.
At the age of seven, he moved with his family to a farm adjoining his birthplace. He never married and lived on this farm until retiring in October 1986, and moving Into Nodaway where he made his home with his sister-in-law and niece for two years. Failing health forced him to enter Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Corning in 1988.
He attended school at Nodaway, was a member of the Nodaway Methodist Church, and a 50-year member of Iroquois Lodge No. 590 A.F. and A.M. of Nodaway.
He served In the European Theatre with the 65th Artillary Battalion during World War II and landed at Omaha Beach In Normandy on D-Day.
As a young man he played the trumpet and alto horn and played In the Nodaway, Villlsca and Corning town bands.
He was preceded In death by his parents; seven brothers. Albert, Harold, Frank, Smith, Charles. James and Clarence; and two sisters, Mattie and Florence Brown.
He is survived by three sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.
Services were held Dec. 12 at the Nodaway United Methodist Church with the Rev. Kevin Glesener officiating. Casket bearers were David Agnew. Jack Shadden, Merlin Carlson, Earl Goldsmith. Franklin Walter and Clifford Palmer. Military rites were conducted by Villlsca American Legion Ker-A Vor Post 251 and Masonic rites by Iroquois Lodge #590 of Nodaway. Burial was in Nodaway Cemetery.
Adams County Free Press, February 14, 1989, page 2