Elton Orville ‘E.O.' Brill was born Aug. 24, 1916 to Harry and Flora Cormaney Brill. He died Feb. 4, 2007 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Webster City, IA.
Pvt. Brill served with the U.S. Army in World War II with the Medical Corps at Springfield, MO.
Elton “E. O.” Brill, 90, died Sunday, February 4, 2007, at the Mary Greeley Medical Center at Ames. Funeral services will be held at 11 am. Thursday at the Faith United Methodist Church at Webster City, with Revs. Michael Willer and Todd Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery at Webster City. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral and Cremation Center from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and after 9:30 a.m. at the church.
Elton Orville Brill, son of Harry and Flora Cormaney Brill, was born August 24, 1916, at Kamrar. He received his education in the Kamrar Public School graduating in 1934. He started working at Brill’s Grill, his fathers restaurant at Kamrar. He then started the Kamrar Mercantile. On October 9, 1942, he married Hannah Ethel Hauge at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, southeast of Stanhope The couple resided at Kamrar.
From 1942 to 1945, he served with the U.S. Army - Medical Corps at Springfield, MO. He worked in the medical lab at O’Reilly General Hospital. Following his discharge, he returned to Kamrar and started Brill’s Feed and Seed Company, he also served as the postmaster of Kamrar for 30 years. HE was a certified commercial seed cleaner and had interests in farming at Kamrar, Belmond and Williams areas. It was difficult to know when Elton retired.
Elton is survived by his wife, Ethel; daughters and sons-in-law, Suzanne and Larry Slauson of Belle Plaine, IA; Kristine and Leo Asaro of St. Louis, MO; grandchildren, Travis Slauson of St. Louis; Crystal and Rich Loy of Cedar Rapids; Alexandra and Vanessa Asaro, both of St. Louis; cousin, Ina Cormaney of Webster City; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Charlotte Baumann.
He was the charter president of the Kamrar Lions Club and helped spearhead the construction of the Lions Community building at Kamrar. He also helped bring a successful weekly Bingo to the Kamrar community. He was a Northrup/King seed dealer for several years. He planted blue grass along many of Iowa’s state highways. He enjoyed traveling, was the oldest resident of Kamrar and placed much importance of making Kamrar a part of his life.
Source: ancestry.com
