Earnest R. Allsup (2006)

ALLSUP, DOLLISON, SWAFFORD, MIILLE, MERICAL

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Date: 3/24/2020 at 06:46:56

The Dallas County News
Adel, Iowa
November 9, 2006
Page A7, Columns 1 & 2

Earnest (Earnie) Allsup, 89, of Adel died Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 at the Westbridge Care Center in Winterset.

Services were held Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Kuhn Funeral Home in Dexter. Burial was in the Dexter Cemetery.

Earnie was born on April 6, 1917 in Milo, the son of Albert and Lucrecia (Dollison) Allsup. Earnie attended the Earlham school in Earlham. In 1936 he married Susie Swafford in rural Dallas County.

In 1936, Earnie and Susie started farming and in 1955 they purchased the Earlham Café. Earnie also worked for Concrete Materials of Earlham and eventually purchased the little country store of Arbor Hill located in rural Adair County. He also worked for the county of Adair as a maintainer operator taking care of the rural roads and retired to his farm in rural Adair County.

Earnie was preceded in death by his wife Susie; son Larry Allsup; daughter Linda Miille; and all 12 of his brothers and sisters.

He is survived by his daughter, Gloria Merical of Adel; son Wayne Allsup of Des Moines; 16 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren and two great great-grandchildren.