Floyd G. Mileham 1901-1962

MILEHAM, CRAWMER, OLEARY, COEQUYT, RUBELL, NEIBAUER, JOHNSON, EDELMAN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/6/2012 at 23:48:51

Found Dead In Basement of Home
Floyd Mileham, 61, was found dead about 5:30 p.m. yesterday by his wife in the basement of their home at 1120 N. 9th St. Dr. L.W. Loving, county medical examiner, had ruled the cause of death as asphyxiation from hanging.

Authorities said that Mileham hung himself with a rope while his wife was outside their home shoveling the sidewalks. When she returned to the house and didn’t locate him, she went to the basement where she found him. He had been in ill health for more than a year.

He was born Jan. 1, 1901, at Mount Pulaski, Ill., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hampton Mileham. The family moved to Curlew in 1913 and Floyd was married Sept. 2, 1925 to Irma [Erma] Margaret Crawmer at Milland.

He and Mrs. Mileham came to Emmet County in 1949 when he began work here as a mechanic for International Harvester. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Esdraelon Commandery.

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. William (Virginia) O’Leary, Emmetsburg, and Mrs. Clive (Joy) Coequyt, Montrose, Minn. His mother, Mrs. W.H. Mileham of Laurens and four grandchildren also survive.

He was the bother of Homer and Merle Mileham, both of Emmetsburg, James of Marathon, Raymond of Laurens and Lyle of Newell. Four sisters, Mrs. Kenneth Rubell, Ruthven; Mrs. Thomas Neibauer, Mason City; Mrs. Jewell Johnson, Emmetsburg, and Mrs. Milton Edelman, Webb, also survive.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, who died in infancy, his father, one brother and a sister.
Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the First Methodist Church in Estherville with the Rev. William R. Noland to officiate. Burial is to be at East Side Cemetery.

Friends may call at Sandin-Fuhrman Funeral Home from Thursday until noon Friday when the body will be taken to lie in state at the church. The casket will not be opened after the services. Graveside Masonic rites will be held. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 26, 1962)