FORNEY, Earl Elmer: Died 1986

FORNEY, EVANS, GURWELL, AVERY, RHODEBECK

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Date: 10/18/2022 at 23:15:30

FL
16 Jan 1986

Rites Saturday for E. Forney

Earl Elmer Forney, 83, 806 S. Third, died at 11:25 p.m. Wednesday at Jefferson County Hospital. (handwritten: 15 Jan 1986)

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Raymond Funeral Home with the Rev. Keith Lingwall officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call at their convenience at the funeral home. Memorials have been established to First Lutheran Church and the Heart Fund.

Forney was born Feb. 13, 1902 in Batavia, the son of Samuel Elmer and Myrtle Evans Forney. He married Edith L. Gurwell July 21, 1923 in Fairfield. An Army veteran, he lived most of his life in Fairfield. He worked as a gas maker in the gas department of Iowa Electric Light and Power for 38 years before retiring March 1, 1967. Before that he had worked at Turney Wagon Factory. He was a member of First Lutheran Church, Clinton Masonic Lodge No. 15 and White Shrine.

Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Maxine Avery of Milton; a grandson, Richard of Newton; two great-granddaughters; a brother, John Forney of Ankeny and a sister, Marie Rhodebeck of Washington. His parents and three sisters preceded him in death.

Source: "Scrapbook 1986 - 1988", Pg. 307,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA