Earl N. Fiscus 1915-1942

FISCUS, FIER, NUGENT, HILSABECK

Posted By: C. Tucker (email)
Date: 1/8/2011 at 13:46:42

Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [Monday 12-21-1942] p. 14

Former Bethel Grove Boy Dies In East

Bethel Grove ---(Special)--- Earl Fiscus, former Bethel Grove boy, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fiscus, died at 3:45 Saturday afternoon in the General hospital at Jamestown, N. Y., after a few days illness of influenza and complications. Mrs. Fiscus, the former Evangeline Fier of Waterloo, was in Iowa when her husband became ill, having come to Waterloo to see her two brothers who are in the service and were home on brief furloughs. Mrs. Fiscus was at the E. L. Fiscus home Tuesday night when she received word of her husband's illness and left immediately for Jamestown and with the two brothers, Delbert Fiscus of Waterloo, and Lloyd Fiscus of Philadelphia, Pa., was at his bedside. Earl Fiscus was born Dec. 31, 1915, on a farm near Union. His parents moved to the Bethel Grove neighborhood when he was a year old, and he grew to manhood in the community, taking an active part in the work of the Bethel Grove church with which he united in 1930, attending the Liscomb and Albion high schools, and playing in the Liscomb band. When he was 18 years old he went to Waterloo and became a salesman for the Rath Packing company, where his brothers, Delbert and Lloyd, were employed and had continued in the employ of the company since that time. He married Miss Evangeline Fier of Waterloo in June, 1935, and they lived at Fort Madison for a year before going to Jamestown, N. Y., three years ago. Surviving besides the widow and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fiscus, are the grandfather, G. S. Nugent, who lives in the Fiscus home; one sister, Mrs. Lloyd A. Hilsabeck, Conrad; and three brothers, Delbert Fiscus of Waterloo, Lloyd Fiscus of Philadelphia, Pa., and Sgt. Orley Fiscus, who is with the army medical service in a hospital in northern Ireland. The body reached Marshalltown Monday afternoon, accompanied by the widow and the brother, Delbert, and will be taken to the Estel funeral home where services will be held at 1:30 Wednesday afternoon, in charge of Rev. P. G. Dennis, of the Central Church of Christ. Burial will be on the family lot in the Bethel Grove cemetery.