Ernest Lester Sanders 1897 - 1945

SANDERS, DEARTH, HESCHKE

Posted By: Linda H Meyers (email)
Date: 6/11/2008 at 22:00:52

Funeral services for Ernest Sanders, life-long resident of the Pleasant Grove Community, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Pleasant Grove church with the Rev. C. E. Lookingbill in charge.
Music was furnished by Casper Thompson at the organ and by Beulah Walston, vocalist. The many beautiful offerings testified to the high esteem in which he was held by his friends and relatives who filled the church to capacity.
Burial was in the Pleasant Grove cemetery.
Ernest Lester Sanders, a son of Ede and Eva Sanders, was born November 11, 1897, in Milford township, Story County, where he grew to manhood and spent most of his life.
He was united in marriage to Miss Lela Mae Dearth of the Pleasant Grove community in March, 1920, and to this union was born one daughter, Alberta Marie. Mrs. Sanders preceded her husband in death.
Besides his daughter, Mrs. Heschke, he leaves his aged father and a brother, Claude, of Graettinger, a brother, Floyd, of Gilbert, several aunts and uncles, and a host of friends.
He was a loving father and a man of high character, and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

---from the Nevada Evening Journal Mar. 5, 1945