Earl Franklin Boitnott (1893-1945)

BOITNOTT, KALTENHEUSER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From Nevada Evening Journal March 30, 1945 (page 2)

Funeral Rites for Earl H. Boitnott Held Saturday

Maxwell, March 30--Funeral services for Earl H. Boitnott were held Saturday afternoon in Cooper's Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Peter Buland of Cambridge officiating with the assistance of Rev. J. D. Brower.

Mrs. Ray Gooden and Jimmie Beal sang three hymns, "Beautiful Garden of Prayer," "Under His Wings", and "He Hideth My Soul." Pall bearers were Orrie Jones, Foss McCauley, Eugene Griffith, Neale Sesker, A. Buland and Virgil Jennings. Floral tributes were very beautiful and profuse.

Interment was in the Brethren cemetery south of Maxwell.

Rev. Brower read the following life sketch.

Earl Franklin, son of William and Sadie Boitnott, was the third child of a family of eleven children. He was born near Maxwell, Iowa, Dec. 9th, 1893, where he grew to manhood and attended the Maxwell school. As a young man he worked at farming and the carpenter trade. He was a tireless and industrious worker as long as he was able, working mostly in the Cambridge community.

For some time he had been in failing health and quietly passed away March 22, 1945, at the age of 51 years, 3 months, and 13 days. He leaves to mourn his passing his mother, Sadie Boitnott, of Maxwell, four brothers and one sister of Roanoke, Va., Willie of Des Moines, Mrs. Edith Kaltenheuser of Ames, George of Newton, Cecil of Roanoke, Va., and Edgar of Des Moines, and many other relatives and friends. His father, three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.