George Harrison Keagle (1870-1939)

KEAGLE, MARSH, HOLLAND, CLARK, COOK, GOOD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/24/2021 at 22:57:13

From Nevada Evening Journal February 14, 1939 (page 3)

Keagle Funeral Services at Collins Methodist Church

Special to the Journal
Collin, Feb. 14--Funeral services for the late G. H. Keagle, who passed away at his home in Collins Tuesday Feb. 7 at noon were held at the local Methodist church on Friday afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. Ida I. Roberts in charge. A double quartet composed of Mrs. G. C. Fish, Mrs. Kenneth Tomlinson, Mrs. Ray Shugart, Mrs. C. R. Stone, Milton Hale, G. E. Holmes, Tom Huntrods and J. r. Witmer, with Mrs. Hugh Fertig as accompanist sang three songs, "Ivory Palaces," "Saved by Grace" and "Sometime We'll Understand." The floral offerings were numerous and very beautiful, bearing mute testimony to the high esteem in which the deceased was held in the community. They were arranged at the church and grave by Mrs. Wm. Carver and Mrs. O. N. Serbein. Interment was in Evergreen cemetery with the following group of American Legion men acting as pallbearers Dewey Kern, C. R. Stone, Fred Elliott, G. C. Fish, Earl Robinson, H. C. Westcott. Honorary pallbearers were chosen from close friends and were A. C. and W. C. Heintz, Clark Chambers, A. O. Williams, Chas. Wade, W. W. and Jasper Westcott and Chas. Waltz.

The services were largely attended, for in the thirty-three years in which Mr. Keagle had been engaged in business in Collins he had made numerous fast friends and a large circle of acquaintances. Church ushers were S. W. Inman and O. N. Serbein. The following is a brief life history of the deceased:

George Harrison Keagle, 68, was born at Rock City, Ill. on December 14, 1870 and passed away at his home in Collins Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1939, after an illness of about three weeks. In January 1895 he was married to Anna Laura March at Freeport, Illinois. In 1903 they moved to Collins where Mr. Keagle engaged in the blacksmith and machine repairing business, working steadily with in a few weeks of his death. Five sons and six daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Keagle and they with their mother survive. The children are Leon of Detroit, Mich., Milford of Los Angeles, Calif., Clyde, Byron and Walter of Collins, Mrs. Doris Holland of Collins, Mrs. Gladys Clark of Springville, Ia., Mrs. Leona Cook and Mrs. Maude Cook of Des Moines, Miss Ethelyn Keagle of Charles City and Mrs. Geraldine Good of Rhodes. A brother Wilbur Keagle of Rockford, Ill., and eighteen grandchildren also survive.

The deceased was a member of the local Methodist Episcopal church having transferred his membership from the Methodist Protestant church in 1917. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

His passing brought sorrow to the community in which he had lived for so many years, and they will not soon forget his many acts of kindness nor his friendly tolerant attitude toward his fellowmen.