Elzie Sheets

SHEETS, OAKS, GODOWN, LINN, MYERS

Posted By: Connie Street (email)
Date: 9/9/2002 at 01:19:39

State Deaths

Elzie Sheets

MILTON - Elzie Sheets, 73, died at the University hospitals at Iowa City Friday following a stroke.

He was born June 30, 1881, the son of Franklin and Harriett Sheets. He was married February 4, 1902, to Daisy Godown, who survives. He was a member of the Home Prairie Methodist church and later the Milton Methodist church.

Besides his wife he leaves a daughter, Mrs. John Oaks (Grethel) of Milton; two brothers, Charles of Keosauqua and Harlan of St. Jospeh, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Herman Linn (Anna) of Mt. Sterling and Mrs. Wayne Myers (Edith) of Albany, Ore.; and a grandson.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Wellborn funeral home in Milton. The Rev. Ed Philgreen of the Cantril Methodist church will officiate. Burial will be in Sunnyside Cemetery.