Charles Franklin BANKS

BANKS, DOOLITTLE, MCDONOUGH, MORGAN, HEYDEN, WILLIAMS, ROGERS, ROSE, HOLLEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/10/2014 at 17:29:29

April 14, 1877 --- October 24, 1957

Funeral Rites for Chas. Banks Held Thursday
Charles Banks, 83, succumbed to death in Schoitz Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, at 12:30 p.m. Thursday of pneumonia and complications. He had been hospitalized a week and had been ill at home several weeks. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. A. Thompson Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at First Presbyterian church here at 3 p.m. at the graveside in Rose Hill Cemetery at Eagle Grove.

Mrs. Herbert Johannsen played organ selections for the church services. Casket bearers for the services here were Roy Hubbard, Louise R. Fosse, C. L. Booth, H. A. Anton, Walter Berryhill and John Young. The Johannsen Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Relatives attending the church service from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Holley of Wells, MN; Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gregor and Mrs. Vivian Sweet of Minneapolis, MN; Harold Rose of St. Louis, MO; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rogers of Ladora; Mrs. Laura Rose of Webster City and Hubert Banks and daughter of Eagle Grove. Relatives and friends also came from Grundy Center, Reinbeck, Dysart, Waterloo, and Waverly and others attended the committal service at Eagle Grove.

Charles Franklin Banks was born in a log house near Webster City in Hamilton County, IA, April 14, 1874, to Albert and Helen Doolittle Banks. He moved with his parents to Eagle Grove when a young man and lived there until moving to Woolstock a few years after his marriage to Elizabeth McDonough at Humboldt, Nov 24, 1898. Later he lived in Waterloo several years and at Long Beach, CA for 11 years, before coming to LaPorte City to reside in 1932. His wife died in Jan 1948, and he was remarried on Sept. 23, 1950 to Elizabeth Morgan of LaPorte City, who survives. Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. R. A. Heyden and one grandson, Gary Heyden of La Porte City, two brothers, Hubert Banks of Eagle Grove and Frank Banks of Boys Hot Springs, CA, and four sisters, Mrs. Cora Williams of Gordon, WI, Mrs. Frank Rogers of Ladora, Mrs. Laura Rose of Webster City, and Mrs. Clarence Holley of Wells, MN. His parents, a two-year old son, one brother and two sisters preceded him in death. Mr. Banks worked as a contractor and builder as his life occupation. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.