Eugene David BANNER
BANNER
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/3/2011 at 02:51:05
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, October 3, 1963, Page 12OBITUARY - EUGENE DAVID BANNER
Eugene David Banner was born in the Creston Community Hospital on February 10, 1947, and was killed in an automobile accident on September 27, 1963, near Benton, while enroute to school in Mount Ayr. Most of his life was lived in the Benton community.
Approaching seventeen years old and nearing six feet tall, he carried himself on a slender frame. Eugene struck you with his long bushy hair. His hair typified his somewhat restless nature. Setting under this hair was a sharp and keen mind. Lying at the center of his character was a soft and kind heart.
Eugene was characterized by a strong, independent and individualisitic will. He did not conform to the conduct and opinions of others against his own feelings or convictions. Yet he was tender in all his relationships with other people.
Eugene had many friends among both the younger and the older. To those of his own age he was an unselfish companion. Adults were amazed at Eugene's friendliness; how he would stop and talk with them and even come by himself to visit them.
His favorite hobby was cars--their bodies and their engines. Music and conversation were other favorite pastimes. Eugene read widely and enjoyed writing.
One thing that affected his life greatly was his deep and unashamed faith in God. He accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour in the Free Methodist Church in Mount Ayr on February 7, 1960. He was baptized July 10, 1960, and read his Bible daily. He constantly carried a New Testament in his shirt pocket and it was in his possession at his death. "Blessed in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."
The memory of this good and kind boy is precious in the hearts and minds of his family. Relatives and many friends will remember him well.
He is survived by his parents, Vilas and Mary Banner, of Benton, and a brother, Raymond, a student in the Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Ward Campbell, pastor of the Free Methodist Church. Mrs. Jim Jones and Mrs. Leo Morgan sang, accompanied at the organ by Jane Mercer. Flower girls were Mary Lou Mullenax, Diane Dittman, Carolyn Tridle and Juanita Clark, and casketbearers were Richard Hill, Dan Barker, Robert Clark, Carl Wyant, Tim Novak and Jerry Shields. Interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery [16-G].
Submission and photograph courtesy of Raymond V. Banner, December of 2010
Ringgold Obituaries maintained by Tony Mercer.
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