STOKELY, Byron E. 1886-1973

STOKELY, STARK, SPRAKER

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 1/18/2022 at 07:41:46

Brian Stokely Rites Friday

Services for Brian Emett Stokely, 86, who died Sunday at the Iowa Soldiers Home in Marshalltown, were held Friday at the ISH Chapel.

He was born Oct. 3, 1886, in Kinmundy, Ill., a son of Samuel and Ann Stokely. He was raised and educated in Kinmundy. On May 22, 1920 he married Molly Stark Spraker in Effingham, Ill. He served in World War I from 1918-19 in France.

He farmed in the Union-Whitten and Marshalltown area for many years. He moved to the ISH in 1967.

Survivors include Mrs. Virginia Thomas, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Marie Hannon, Younkers, New York; three brothers, Benjamin of Azusa, Calf., Joseph M., Chariton, Wyo. and Steven E., Salem, Ill.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mrs. Virginia Thomas is his daughter.

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1939.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 16 August 1973, pg 12