Engle, Percy 1886-1967

ENGLE, OBANNON, WIRT, DAVIDSON

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 4/27/2005 at 17:58:58

Percy Engle, 81, Former Resident Dies on Thursday

Funeral services for Percy Engle, 81, of Crescent, a former resident of Jasper County, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Woodring Funeral Home in Council Bluffs.

Mr. Engle will lie in state in Moffitt Funeral Home in Mitchellville later Monday afternoon until approximately 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Sugar Grove Cemetery in the Metz community conducted by the Rev. Hilton Griswold, minister of the First Assembly of God Church in Newton.

Mr. Engle died Thursday evening in Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs.

Survivors are his wife, Eva O'Bannon Engle; a son, Paul of McAllen, Tex.; a daughter, Mrs. Spencer (Evelyn) Wirt of Phoenix, Ariz.; six grandchildren; a brother, Fred Engle, of near Newton; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a brother, James; a twin sister in infancy; his parents; and a son in infancy.

The son of Andrew and Caroline Davidson Engle, he was born in Baxter March 7, 1886.

He resided in the Metz community during his early life, later moving to Newton where he operated the Engle Tile Co. He resided in Des Moines and Missouri Valley for several years before moving to Crescent. ~ Newton Daily News October 30, 1967

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