Howard SCHOONOVER

SCHOONOVER, COTTON, BASTIAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/23/2016 at 22:14:17

July 25, 1880 --- July 4, 1977

Howard Schoonover, 96, former Eagle Grove businessman, died Monday, July 4, at the Rotary Ann Home Infirmary where he had been a patient for several months. He would have celebrated his 97th birthday, July 25. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the United Methodist Church with Rev. Donald Callen officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery where military rites will be conducted by Clarence Shurtz Post. He is survived by his wife and nieces.

Schoonover was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schoonover, early day Eagle Grove residents. He attended rural schools near here and at a young age enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Spanish-American war. After the war he returned to Eagle Grove and worked, for his brother, Harry in the grocery store on "the east side." The two brothers were in partnership for two years in Schoonover's Grocery on main street in the building now occupied by Spangler Clothing. Later he worked as a salesman for the Hewitt Grocery Co. of Des Moines for many years and retired in 1945.

His first wife, Daisy Lee Cotton Schoonover, died in 1948 and on August 26, 1950 he was married to Etta Bastian of Eagle Grove, and they made their home at 305 So. Cadwell Ave. During the years Mr. Schoonover maintained his interest in the Spanish American War Veterans Association and was a past and present State Commander, and National Historian of the United Spanish American War Veterans.

He was a former Boy Scout leader and had the distinction of having organized the first Boy Scout troop west of the Mississippi river. He was a member of the United Methodist Church, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and various branches of the Masonic Lodge.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE -- Iowa
July 6, 1977

Source -- Paul Wilde