Earl Harold Stanley (1932)

BRUETT, STANLEY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/6/2006 at 21:28:59

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 14, 1932
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Earlham Special - DEATH OF EARL STANLEY

Earl Stanley, young farmer south of town, passed away Wednesday morning, January 6, 1932, at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines. Mr. Stanley underwent an operation last week which disclosed a cancer of the intestines.

The funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Church of Christ.

Mr. Stanley was 26 years old at the time of his death. He leaves his wife, the former Gladys Bruett, and a small daughter, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stanley, and eight brothers and four sisters to mourn his death.

He is the fourth of a family of sixteen children to pass away.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, January 7, 1932
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Death of Earl Stanley

Earl Stanley, 26, passed away Wednesday morning at a Des Moines hospital. He had been under treatment for some time, undergoing an operation last week which disclosed an intestinal cancer that precluded all hope of recovery. He is survived by his wife and a four-year-old daughter, his parents, Mrs. And Mrs. Chas. Stanley and by several brothers and sisters.

The body was brought to Welch & Benson undertaking parlors Wednesday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two-thirty from the Earlham Church of Christ with the Rev. Bigelow, of Adel, officiating.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, January 14, 1932
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Earl H., son of Charles A. and Margaret Stanley, was born November 5, 1905 near Earlham, Iowa, and departed this life at the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, January 5, 1932, age 27 years and two months.

His entire life has been spent around Earlham having been employed for some time on the Richard Hoskins farm, south of town.

He was united in marriage to Gladys Bruett, December 2, 1926, and to this union was born one daughter, Mary Earline.

He had seemed in the best of health but a few weeks ago, when he began to fail and the week before Christmas, went to Des Moines to consult a physician. An operation deemed necessary, so he went to the Methodist Hospital where he was operated on, Monday, December 28. All that skilled physicians and loving hands could do was done; but in ------, and he passed away a week later on the following Wednesday.

Earl was a favorite of the family, especially among the younger children. He had a cheerful disposition, always looked on the bright side of life, loved his home and loved ones and spoke several times, while in the hospital of being anxious for the time to come, when he would be able to go back to his home. He was young and ambitious and on Sunday, expressed to his wife a desire to live. He was conscious until the last, and realizing that the end was near, called for his wife and little daughter, telling them over and over again that although ready to go, he hated to leave them. He called all who were in the room to his bedside, telling each and every one goodbye, calling them by name, and asked them to tell all the brothers and sisters not present good bye; naming each by name. He then told his nurse, good bye and said: “I’m going home,” and passed peacefully on to that land where there is no sorrow, no pain.

We can not see beyond the veil, and know why one in the prime of life should be taken, but we believe that, “He doeth all things well.”

He leaves to mourn his loss his wife and daughter, father and mother, eight brothers, four sisters, many nieces and nephews, cousins, and a large circle of friends.

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Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the Earlham Church of Christ at Earlham, with Mrs. Hurd, of Redfield, officiating.

Burial was in the Earlham Cemetery.

Those attending from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cook, of Cambridge, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Houghman and children, of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Stanley, of Cummings; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fry, of Des Moines; Mr. Bernard Fry, of Creston; Mrs. Esla Baker and daughters, of Oskaloosa; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wolverton, of Afton; Mrs. Scott Jones and Mrs. Roy Kirlin, of Stuart.

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