Efnor, Henry E. 1897-1989
EFNOR, ROMANS, EARLEY, BENEDICT
Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 11/28/2004 at 10:29:21
Funeral services for Henry E. Efnor, 91, of Midtown Apartments, a longtime resident of Newton and former Jasper County deputy county auditor and secretary of the Jasper County Board of Supervisors for three terms, were held Saturday, dec. 31, at the First United Methodist Church.
The Rev. Jerry Brown, pastor of the church, conducted services. Burial was in the Newton Union Cemetery.
Visitation with the family was held Friday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.
Memorials to the Jasper County Care Facility may be left at the funeral home.
He died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at the Jasper County Care Facility.
Survivors are his wife, E. LaNore; a son, H. Edwin Efnor of Denver, Colo.; a daughter, Lona Benedict of Fayetteville, Ark.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Mr. Efnor, a member of the First United Methodist Church in which he was active in the Men’s Bible Class, had served as senior vice commander of the District 4 of the American Legion.
Mr. Efnor, while attending night school at Grove City Community College in Grove City, Pa., worked for the Grove City Oil and Gas Engine Co. until entering the Army’s 538th Motor Transport Repair Unit in 1918, serving in El Paso and Marfa, Tex.
After his discharge in 1919, he worked for his father, a cement contractor in Newton, for the E. J. Miles Ford Agency, burning in motors, and sold Metropolitan Life Insurance until joining the Jasper County Bank in 1924 as a bookkeeper.
From 1929 to 1932 he was employed at the Maytag Co. and became deputy auditor in 1929.
He returned to the Maytag Co. in 1938 where he worked until retiring in 1962.
The son of Edwin E. and Laura Romans Efnor, he was born Jan. 28, 1897 in Newton, attended Newton schools and was a 1916 graduate of Newton Community High School.
He was married to E. LaNore Earley Oct. 25, 1919. The Efnors celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary Oct. 25, 1988. The Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, January 3, 1989.
Newton High School Graduates, 1916, page 3
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