Eason, Oscar 1890-1969

EASON, MOIR

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 1/19/2006 at 08:42:45

From the LeMars Sentinel, Friday, March 21, 1969, Page 9, Column 4:

Obituary
Oscar Eason

Oscar Eason, 78, Alton, died Monday at the Orange City hospital after a long illness. He was the father of George Eason, formerly of rural LeMars, now in Vietnam.

Mr. Eason was born March 28, 1890, at Alton. He was married to Grace Moir in 1912. She died in 1918 and he was married to Susan Freriks, Aug. 12, 1920 (error--Aug. 30). She died on March 7, 1962.

He farmed in Sherman and Nassau townships in Sioux county before retirement when he moved to Alton.

Funeral services were Friday at the Alton Presbyterian church, with Rev. John Maze officiating. Burial was in Nassau township cemetery at Alton under direction of the Van Etten funeral home at Orange City.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Moorehead, Cherokee; three sons, George of Saigon, Vietnam; Norman of Orange City and Wayne of Alton; three sisters, Mrs. Emilia Koppenal and Mrs. Hilda Van Zyl, both of Venice, Fla.; and Mrs. Harry DeJong, Orange City; four brothers, John, Sanborn; Ernest, San Diego; Alvin, Algona, and Fred, Alton; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.