Earl H. Rhodes

RHODES, HARRISON, LINGE, CLINE, STRONG, BISHOP

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 3/20/2006 at 14:29:15

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
November 25, 1959 – page 4

EARL RHODES DIES IN NORTH CAROLINA

Former Winterset Resident Had Lived in Ohio Many Years

Earl H. Rhodes, a native of Winterset and formerly a well known young man of this community, died last Friday, Nov. 20, at Ashville, N. C., of a heart attack. He was 66 years of age.

Mr. Rhodes was born in Winterset on July 29, 1893, a son of W. C. and Mary E. Rhodes. He graduated from Winterset high school and Drake university in Des Moines. During his early life here he was active in the Winterset Christian church and in World War I served as a chaplin for Winterset’s company A of the 168th Infantry Regiment. Following the war he served as a Y.M.C.A. director at Winterset, and later served in that same capacity at Atlantic. From there he was transferred to Dayton, O., where he had made his home for many years. In recent years he had traveled for The World News, in several southern states.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Blanche Rhodes, of Dayton; two sons, Donald Rhodes of Dayton and Wayne Rhodes of Cleveland, O.; a daughter, Mrs. Beverly Harrison of Washington, D.C.; seven grandchildren; three brothers, William Rhodes of Omaha, Paul Rhodes of Adel and Jess Rhodes of Winterset; and four sisters, Mrs. Bessie Linge of Ft. Worth, Tex., Mrs. Pearl Cline, Mrs. Hattie Strong and Mrs. Etta Bishop of Winterset.

Funeral services were held from the Brough funeral home in Miamasburg, O., and burial in the cemetery there.