Harold Sayers (1895-1949)

SAYERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/16/2014 at 17:44:38

From Nevada Journal February 15, 1949

Harold Sayers was born in Jefferson, Ia., September 28, 1895, a son of Milton C. and Mollie Anna Sayers.

His childhood and youth were spent in Jefferson, Iowa City, Ames and New Hampton. He graduated from the New Hampton high school and attended the University of Iowa and Capital City Commercial college.

He served in the Field Artillery during World War I.

Here in 1926

Mr. Sayers was in the abstract business in New Hampton and Des Moines before coming to Nevada in 1926. For several years he was associated with the late C. A. Batman in the Batman-Sayers Abstract office, later becoming its sole owner.

He is survived by a son Homer D. Sayers, junior at the Iowa State University in Iowa City, a daughter Betty A. Sayers, freshman at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and one sister, Miss Grace Sayers of Gary, Ind.

Mr. Sayers was a member of the American Legion, the Forty and Eight, Elks Lodge, Masonic Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star and Rotary International, all of which organizations, among others, attended the last rites in a body.

From Out of Town

Among the large number in attendance at the last rites from out of town were Everett Sewell of Webster City, S. D., Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Schmidt and Mrs. Olaf Kelson of New Hampton, Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg Thomas of Jefferson, Mrs. Deva Johns and Mrs. J. F. Barile and Frank of Newton.

Mrs. Fern Burns and daughter Carol of Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Blanche Jenks and Frank Olson of Eagle Grove, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Garten of Des Moines, Myrtle and Lucian Newitt of Humboldt, Mrs. Margaret D. Paul of Marshalltown and a number from Ames and elsewhere in the county.