Gerald B. Reeves (1893-1959)

REEVES, KEEL, PETTI, BAKER, HRDLICKA, BRADSHAW, BROWN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/29/2020 at 15:51:10

From Nevada Evening Journal February 27, 1959 (page 4)

GERALD B. REEVES

LORING--Funeral services for Gerald B. Reeves were held Tuesday, February 24, at 2:00 p.m. from the Loring E.U.B. Church with the Rev. E. R. Walter officiating and the Rev. Noel Adams assisting.

Music was furnished by Howard McCauley, Belva McHone, Marjorie McCauley and Velma Tomlinson. The flowers were taken care of by Ella Mishler and Gladys Lundstrom.

Casket bearers were John Lundstrom, Joe Falvey, Leonard Link, Herbert Hill, Ralph Dunahoo and Summer Churchill. Interment was in the Loring cemetery. The Cooper Funeral Home in Maxwell was in charge of the services.

Obituary

Gerald B. Reeves, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Reeves, was born June 1, 1893, at Rosemont, Neb.

As a young man he came with his parents to live at Cainsville, Mo. Early in the First World War he enlisted in the navy, serving for period of four years.

He joined the Christian Church at Mt. Moriah, Mo., and was active in the church, serving as Sunday School superintendent choir director and director of young peoples work for a number of years.

Reeves was married to Iva Naomi Keel at Des Moines, Iowa. This union was blessed with son and daughter. for a number of years they lived in the Des Moines and Altoona communities. Later they moved to the Loring Community. They transferred their membership to the Loring Evangelical United Brethren Church. Mr. Reeves continued his active interest in the church and played an important part in the planning and building of the much needed addition to our church.

Reeves has been in ill for a number of years. Almost without warning he was taken seriously ill early Saturday morning, and taken to the Lutheran Hospital where he died on Feb. 21, 1959, at the age of 65 years, 8 months and 21 days.

He was preceded in death by three sisters who died in infancy, one brother, John at the age of 16 and his father, James Stanton Reeves.

Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Lennie Reeves of Cainsville, Mo., his wife, Iva, a daughter, Roberta Petti of Big Pine Key, Florida, and son, Gerald Reeves of Maxwell.

Six grandchildren, Dianne Lynn Petti, Larry Dean, Sharon Lynn, Gerald William, Jeffery Alan, and Mary Iva Reeves. He also leaves four brothers, Harold a minister in the Christian Church at Winters, Calif., Lester of Annaheim, Calif., Clesson of Spickard, Mo., and four sisters, Laurel Baker and Orel Hardlicka [should be Hrdlicka] of Cainsville, Mo., Cuma Bradshaw of Grand River, Iowa and Kemil Brown of Des Moines, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Reeves took into their home three foster sons, Walter Nelson of Council Bluffs, Iowa, John Carrol of Des Moines and Gordon Fales of Maxwell. Also nineteen nieces and nephews, besides a host of relatives and friends.