Gearhart, Pearl L. (Annis) 1910-2005

GEARHART, ANNIS, LAIRD, CORNELISON, MONAHAN, WESTERBECK, LEE, ANDERSON, HUMES, PETERS, KINTS, PATTERSON, DEATON, SHOWALTER, VESSELS

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Date: 6/26/2005 at 20:45:21

Pearl LeOna Gearhart, 94, of Newton died Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, at USA Health Care Center in Newton.

Funeral services were held today at Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton, with Pastor Steven Gibson of Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Newton presiding. Burial will be at Union Chapel Cemetery in rural Ira. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her name.

The daughter of Frank and Maude Laird Annis, she was born July 22, 1910, in rural Colfax. She attended country schools in and around Colfax. She was united in marriage to John D. Gearhart on Nov. 23, 1929, in Newton. She was a homemaker and lived in Ira until 1979, when she moved to Colo, where she lived for a year, before spending three years in Thayer, Mo. She lived in Arkansas for nine years before moving back to Ira and then moved to Newton. She had been a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Newton since 1953, where she served as Sabbath School Superintendent and as a Deaconess in addition to teaching the junior class.

Survivors include three sons and daughters-in-law, John and Maryllis Gearhart of Colfax, Ronald and Margie Gearhart of Pocahontas, Ark., and James and Valerie Gearhart of Willow Springs, Mo.; six daughters and five sons-in-law, LaVerna and Lyman Cornelison of Ira, Patsy and Max Monahan of Nevada, Sarah and Robert Westerbeck of White House, Tenn., Sandra and Gregory Lee of Spring Hill, Texas, Jolene and Samuel Anderson of Cedar Hill, Tenn., and Janet Humes of Newton; 48 grandchildren; 85 great-grandchildren; and 32 great-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Edith Peters, Erma Kints and Donna Joyce Patterson; a brother, Frank Annis; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband John; a son, Delbert; four grandchildren; three sisters, Dorothy Deaton, Arlene Showalter and Berneice Vessels; and three brothers, Herbert, Mickey and Don Annis.

Newton (IA) Daily News, Monday, February 28, 2005