Neal, Earl Floyd – 1898-1920

FRANKLIN, NEAL, STIER

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Date: 10/25/2014 at 15:30:46

Well Known Mingo Man Dies Sunday
Earl Neal, of Mingo, a prominent young carpenter and business man, died at his home Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock with typhoid pneumonia and was buried Tuesday afternoon in the Greencastle cemetery. Mr. Neal has been in poor health for the past four weeks but his recovery was looked forward to up until the last. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Ileon Stier and a child five years old; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Neal; two brothers, Davis and Charles Neal, of Des Moines and one sister.
Source: Newton Daily News; April 13, 1920, page 1, col. 4

Earl Floyd Neal, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Neal, was born in Mingo, Iowa, Nov. 26, 1898 and died at his home in Mingo, April 11, 1920, being twenty-six years of age. His entire life, with the exception of a few months at Collins, was lived in Mingo and here of course are his life time friends. The certificate of baptism which hangs in a room in his late home, shows him to have been baptized and taken into the Methodist Episcopal church by Robert Griggsley February 2, 1913. On September 2, 1914, he was united in marriage to Miss Ileon Stier, of Mingo. To them was born one child, Bernice. His widow and daughter survive him together with his mother and father, three brothers, Milton of Mingo; Dave and Charlie of Des Moines. One sister, Mrs. Jim Franklin of Des Moines.
All of them, except little Bernice were present at his bedside when he died. For three weeks and three days Earl has been confined to his bed. From the beginning he was known to be in a serious condition with typhoid pneumonia. Three days after he took to his bed he became delirious and was never fully conscious from that time. Only the strong constitution of one who had never been sick in his life and a great determination to live kept him alive so long. His sufferings were intense. Besides his near relatives he leaves to mourn his death a host of friends who extend their deepest heartfelt sympathy to his widow and Bernice and the father and mother and brothers and sister. The pastor, Rev. Arthur H. Adams, conducted services in the home from whence the sad procession took its way to the Ashton… (obituary cut off)
Source: Newton Daily News; April 14, 1920, page 5, col. 2, section 2