Lyle Dale Reasoner (1923 - 2001)
REASONER, LONG, JACKSON, JAMES, COCHRAN
Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 9/15/2011 at 23:42:28
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LYLE DALE REASONER
Lyle Dale Reasoner of Grand River, son of Floyd George and Gladys Viola Long Reasoner, was born Nov. 10, 1923, in Union County and died July 28, 2001, in the Clarke County Hospital at Osceola. He was 77.He graduated from Thayer Community High School. After graduation Mr. Reasoner worked for the CB&Q Railroad out of Creston. He later transferred to Kansas City where he continued to work for the railroad through Western Union Telegraph Service.
He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War from December 1948 until he was discharged in September 1951. He returned to the Murray Grand River area where he farmed.
He married Bonnie Bell Jackson in 1952 in Osceola.
Mr. Reasoner was a member of the Hopeville United Methodist Church, a former member of the Grand River and later Murray American Legion, Creston Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Creston Eagles.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1989; a brother, Robert Reasoner in March 1981; a sister-in-law, Frances Reasoner and a brother-in-law, John James.Mr. Reasoner is survived by four brothers, Olin Reasoner and his wife, LaViece Reasoner, of Murray; Keith Reasoner and his wife, Donna Reasoner, of Hamilton, Va., L.W. John Reasoner of Sheridan, Wyo. and Don Reasoner and his wife, Deloris Reasoner, of Osceola; a sister, Avis James of Osceola; a sister-in-law, Frankie Cochran and her husband, Johnnie Cochran, of Broken Bow, Okla.; many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were Aug. 1 at the Hopeville United Methodist Church, the Rev. Dwayne Henrichs officiating. Burial was in the Hopeville Cemetery with military rites by the Theodore J. Martens Post No. 1797, VFW of Creston. Arrangements were by Powers Funeral Home in Afton.
Memorial contirbutions may be made in Mr. Reasoner’s name to the Hopeville United Methodist Church.
Clarke Obituaries maintained by Brenda White.
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