Hancock County Journal
and The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
April 10, 1958
Page 5
Column 5

Mrs. Garnet Earls'
Funeral and Burial
Are Held in Basco

Funeral services for Mrs. Garnet B. Earls of Washington, D.C., were held Saturday, April 5, at 2 p.m. in the Basco Baptist church, the Rev. Robert Bulkley of Carthage officiating.  Miss Irva Peters and Mrs. Zella Hanerhoff sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Garden of Prayer."  Pallbearers were William O. Damron, Curtis Ayers, Junius Fleming, Arnold Schmidt, Douglas Steffey and Dale Richardson.  Eastern Star service were conducted by the Browning chapter of Denver.  Burial was in Basco South cemetery.

Mrs. Earls died Tuesday, April 1, in a Washington, D.C. hospital after an illness of over two years.

Born Grayson (Grace) Martin, July 27, 1908, in Atlanta, Ga., she was a daughter of Henry E. and Camilla Brannan Martin.  In 1923 she married Garnet B. Earls of Basco.  They lived in Basco practically all of their married life, except for a few years during the second world war when he was in the navy and they made their home in Jacksonville, Fla.  While her husband was postmaster of Basco from 1926 to 1956, she served as his assistant.

In December of 1956, they moved to Washington, D.C. to enable Mrs. Earls to have the care of a specialist there.

She was a member of the Basco Baptist church, the Amama class of that church, and the Jewel chapter of the Eastern Star in Basco.

Surviving are the widower; a son-in-law and daughter, Sherosh and Darleen Laputz, of Hyattsville, Md.; her mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Charping, of St. Cloud, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Skatz of East Riverdale, Md., and a brother, Guy Martin, of Atlanta, Ga.

She was preceded in death by her father, in 1939, and by an infant brother and sister.

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