Charles Milton Sears

SEARS, MARTIN, WARREN, MCDOUGAL, OVERTON, DUNCAN, HUMPHREY, DAVIS, LOVELL

Posted By: Ann Sears Selvig (email)
Date: 9/6/2014 at 13:41:40

Obituary

Charles Milton Sears, son of John and Sarah Sears, was born in Kentucky March 17, 1868 and passed away June 24, 1946, at the Monroe Hospital in Unionville, Mo.

When five years of age he came, with his parents to Iowa, and, with the exception of one year when he lived in Missouri, he has spent his entire life in this community.

On May 14, 1899 he was married to Stella M. Martin and to this union six children, three sons and three daughters were born. Mrs. Beulah Warren, Webster City, Iowa, Melvin Sears, Lineville, Leon Sears, Allerton, Mrs. Mabel McDougal, Clio, Neal Sears, Lineville, and Mrs. Rosa Overton, Rippey, Iowa. These with their mother were privileged to be with him at the last.

Others who mourn their loss are the nineteen grandchildren and his mother, Mrs. John Sears of Wakita, Okla. who is 98 years of age and has been bed-ridden for 10 years. Four sisters, Mrs. Laura Duncan, California, Mrs. Tessie Humphrey, Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Stella Davis, and Mrs. Lovell of Wakita, Okla., two brothers, Ross and Neal, Leavenworth, Washington.

Mr. Sears was converted at Mt. Olive Church when a young man and all his life expressed a desire to so live as to meet his Master in a better world and often admonished his children to live honest, upright lives and to attend church. This was his last request to them.

Though he had been in bad health for a long time, his last illness was of short duration. Everything was done for him that loving hands could do, but to no avail.

He will be greatly missed by his family, to whom he was ever kind and loving and also by a host of friends and neighbors who will long remember his many kind, neighborly acts.

"Like a ship that has left its mooring,
And sails bravely out to sea,
So someone dear has sailed away
In calm serenity.
But there is a promise of a greater joy,
Than earth can have in store
For God has planned a richer life,
Beyond the unseen shore."

The Lineville Tribune