Marshall Sears (1925)

SEARS, PROHASKA

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler, Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/24/2014 at 14:23:14

Earlham Echo – Earlham, Iowa
July 30, 1925

To Marshall Sears death came after a life of patient toil and service for his loved ones. He was the fifth child of Fredrick and Amanda Sears, and was born at Burlington, Iowa December 31, 1858 and passed away at the family home in Dallas County, Iowa, July 23, 1925 at the age of 67 years, 6 months and 23 days.

When he was a child of but 8 months of age his parents brought him to the then new country, Dallas County, and here the home has been made ever since. Here Marshall spent his days, working at the tasks of the farm, being a good neighbor and a kind and considerate brother and child. Always a lover of his home he never strayed from the family fireside. A great worker; always bearing his part and even a little more, sometimes, he insisted upon working even when physically unable to do so. Such was the case this spring. But gradually the physical strength was rapped and peacefully, quietly, he entered the Great Beyond on the day specified.

He leaves to mourn his passing three brothers, Fleming Sears and John Sears of Earlham, Iowa, and Chas. of Greenfield, Ia.; two sisters, Mary Sears and Mrs. Elsie Prohaska of Earlham. Besides these near relatives there are others and a host of friends who mourn his passing.

Funeral services were held from the family home five miles northeast of Earlham on Sunday, July 26, 1925, conducted by M. B. Pringle, pastor of the Church of Christ at Earlham. Interment was in the Ellis cemetery.