Ernest LeMaster 1871-1965

LEMASTER, BROWN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/7/2015 at 21:06:52

Final Rites To Be Held On Friday
Funeral services for Ernest LeMaster, 93, are to be Friday at 2:30 p.m. at Fuhrman Funeral Home, Rev. H. Allen Wirtz officiating. Burial is to be in the Armstrong Grove cemetery.

Mr. LeMaster died Tuesday about 4 p.m. at Estherville Holy Family Hospital.

Ernest LeMaster was born Nov. 2, 1871, in Kentucky and later farmed there before moving to Iowa where he continued farming. He never married.

For the past several years he had lived at the Balmer Nursing Home.

He is survived by a nephew and three grand-nieces.

Friends may call at Fuhrman Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Thursday until time of services Friday.

Pallbearers are to be Kenneth West, Frank Maniece, Wayne West, Merl Landmesser, Vern Von Hagen and Niels Balmer. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 30, 1965)

Note: Brother of William Lewis LeMaster; per 1925 census, parents were Lewis LeMaster and Sarah Brown