Margaret (Dunbar) Eakins (1924)

EAKINS, DUNBAR, GILBERT, BARTON, HUMMILL

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/17/2014 at 15:20:02

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, May 15, 1924

Mrs. L. O. Eakins, better known as Miss Margaret Dunbar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Dunbar, passed away at their home at about four o’clock this afternoon after an illness extending over several months. She has been in the home of her parents about two weeks, coming here from her home at Maxwell in the hope that the change and a complete rest would accomplish what medical skill could not. She was operated upon in Des Moines in January for an intestinal cancer and never rallied, and sank into the last earthly sleep in spite of the loving care lavished upon her by those who held her so dear.

Mrs. Eakins is survived by her husband and three children, eight, five and two years old. Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon and interment will be in Earlham cemetery. The bereaved husband, parents and children will be the objects of unusual sympathy in being thus deprived of the presence and ministration of this life so precious to them.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, May 29, 1924

Margaret Dunbar, daughter of Loren and Belle Dunbar, was born at Henderson, Ill., May 2nd, 1896 and came with her parents to Iowa while yet a small child.

She received her education in the country and in the Earlham schools. She united with the Christian church.

She was married to Lawrence O. Eakin Aug. 25, 1913. To this union were given four children: Forrest Edward, aged 8, Hester Louise, 6, Mildred Arline, 3, and Loren George dying in infancy.

After Lawrence and Maggie were married they lived for a time at DeSoto, from there they moved to near Dallas Center, and later to Maxwell. Margaret had been in failing health for over a year and about the first of January she was taken to a hospital hoping for relief, but medical skill and tender care were of no avail, and on the evening of May 15 she passed quietly into the rest for which she had so earnestly prayed.

Besides the above named relatives she leaves three sisters, Mrs. Della Gilbert, (Mrs. Jessie Barton having died in March 1917), Mrs. Hazel Hummill and Miss Elsie, and five brothers, Burt, Percie, Edgar, Harry and Tony Dunbar with a host of relatives and friends.

Margaret was a dutiful daughter, a loving devoted wife and mother and a loyal friend.

Funeral services were held in the Church of Christ in Earlham, Sunday conducted by the pastor M. B. Pringle. Interment was in Earlham cemetery.

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