Loyall Edgar Thomas (1893-1949)

THOMAS, MITCHELL, SMITH, BALL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/2/2016 at 22:00:20

From Ames Milepost June 1949

LOYALL E. THOMAS

Loyall E. Thomas, clerk of the municipal court of Ames since its beginning Nov. 1, 1926, died Wednesday at 8:40 p.m. in the Veterans hospital at Des Moines where he had been a patient since May 3. Mr. Thomas, 55, whose home was at 914 Ninth, had been suffering from a heart condition for three months and had been in a hospital most of that time.

Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the Adams chapel with Rev. W. Murray Allan, pastor of the First Congregational church, officiating. Burial will be in the Ames Municipal cemetery.

Mr. Thomas, born Sept. 22, 1893, in the Napier neighborhood, attended both Iowa State college and South Dakota State college at Brookings. His schooling was interrupted by service in World War I with the medical corps unit commanded by Dr. E. B. Bush of Ames.

He was employed b y the Ames National bank (Ames Trust and Saving bank today) for eight years before he was appointed by the city council as the first clerk of the municipal court. He was first elected to a 4-year term as clerk at the first election following the appointment, in 1930, and had been re-elected each time without opposition. He was a member of the Mono clan and the Ames post of the American Legion.

Mr. Thomas was married June 31, 1920, at Ames to Alice Mitchell, who survives.

Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Joyce Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Lola Thomas of Ames; a brother, Frank Thomas of Brooklyn, Ia., and a sister, Mrs. R. W. Vall* of Ames. One daughter, Dorothy, preceded him in death in 1934.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: This should be "Mrs. R. W. Ball", not Vall.