Efnor, Guy Merrill 1885-1935

EFNOR, RATER, HILLIARD, BROWN

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 7/3/2010 at 15:09:22

Obituary

Guy M. Efnor

(Special to The Newton Daily News)

REASNOR – Guy Merrill Efnor, son of Oscar E., and Lita Bell Efnor, was born in Jasper County, Iowa, Dec. 30, 1885, and died in the Skiff Memorial Hospital at Newton, May 16, 1935, at the age of 49 years, 4 months and 17 days.

In the passing of Guy Efnor the community loses one of its best citizens and the church one of its most active members. His entire life had been spent in this community except one year which he spent in Missouri.

He received his early education in the little rural school east of Reasnor and after completing the work there, continued his high school work in Newton where he was graduated in 1902. He then attended Iowa State College for one year.

He was united in marriage with Florence Grace Rater, May 4, 1908. To this union was born five children, Roma Ardis, Frances Arlene Mae, Azaela Merle, Guy Merrill, Jr. and Paul Andrew.

He united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when he was 10 years old, and he was also a member of the Woodman of the World. He was teacher of the Men’s Bible Class and temperance superintendent of the Sunday school of the Reasnor church.

He was preceded in death by his mother, his sister, Maude, and his brother, Earl. He leaves his wife, five children, his aged father, one sister, Odessa Grace Hilliard of Denver, Colo., one brother, Claude, of Minneapolis; three grandsons, Calvin Fletcher, William Merrill, and Carroll Everett Brown, five nieces and three nephews.

Funeral services were conducted from the church in Reasnor Sunday afternoon by the pastor, the Rev. R. E. Hodgson. Interment was in the cemetery at Monroe.

Those attending the funeral from a distance were O. E. Efnor of Boone, Grace Efnor Hilliard of Denver, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Efnor of Minneapolis, Minn., Muriel Efnor of Dolliver; Mr. and Mrs. Willie Cooper, Chalmer Cooper of Ames; Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cooper of Algona; Mr. and Mrs. George Rater, Gladys Van Deventer of Adel; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Caple of Yale; Mrs. Flossie Efnor, Chalmer, Frances, Martha, and Lita Bell Efnor of Bondurant; Rev. and Mrs. Forest Moore of Columbia, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gilbert of Des Moines. ~ Newspaper unknown.