BOLES, Okie E.

BOLES, WILLIS, BOYD, WILSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/10/2016 at 03:21:12

Obituary ~ Okie E. Boles
April 22, 1901 ~ May 28, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
May 30, 1996

Okie E. Boles, 95, of 1511 N. Jefferson Ave., died Tuesday (May 28, 1996) at Good Shepherd Health Care Center.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Grace United Methodist Church, 200 Fourteenth St. N.W., with the Rev. Herbert G. Shafer officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church.

Other arrangements are incomplete at Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
May 31, 1996

Okie E. Boles, 95, of 1511 N. Jefferson Ave., died Tuesday (May 28, 1996) at Good Shepherd Healthcare Center.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Grace United Methodist Church, 200 14th St. N.W., with the Rev. Herbert G. Shafer officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday. Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., is in charge of arrangements.

Okie E. Boles was born April 22, 1901, in Laurenceville, Ill., and was raised by his grandparents, Samuel and Sarah Boles. He married LaVera Willis on Feb. 25, 1925, at Kirksville, Mo.

Okie grew up in Indiana and moved to Mason City in 1927. He worked at Northwestern Cement Plant for 25 years until retiring in 1963. He enjoyed working in the yard and raising flowers. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, Wayne Boles of Ottumwa, and Ronald Boles and his wife, Beverly, of Minneapolis, Minn.; a son-in-law, Gene Boyd of Mason City; 14 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Anna Boles; his second wife, LaVera; two daughters, Lois Wilson and Dorothy Boyd; and daughter-in-law, Mary Boles.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2016