Hancock County Journal
and The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Thursday
May 6, 1954
Section 1
Page 5
Columns 1 & 2Funeral Services
For Basco Man
Are Held SundayFuneral services for Frank Lyndon Earls, 57, stock food agent in the Basco community, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in the Basco Methodist church, Rev. J. E. Van Dyke officiated. Burial was in Basco South cemetery.
Masonic rites were also conducted. Music for the funeral was furnished by Mrs. Zella Hanerhoff and Miss Irva Peters. Pallbearers were: Frank Fay, Robert Ewing, Douglas Steffey, Floyd McMillen, John Richardson and Jesse Richardson.
Earls died Friday morning at 6:25 in Memorial hospital in Carthage, where he had been a patient the last 10 days. He had a heart attack nine weeks ago.
Earls was born Jan. 2, 1897 in McDonough county, a son of Sherman and Cora Twaddle Earls. The family located in Basco in 1906. He was a member of the Basco Masonic lodge.
He received his education in the Basco schools; Gem City Business college, Quincy, and barber college in Peoria. He served on the Basco town board for the past 10 years.
He was married in 1935 to Olive White who survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Nadine, who is a senior in Warsaw high school; his mother and a sister, Mrs. Mildred Phillips, both of Basco, and three brothers, Garnet of Basco, Vern of Hamilton and Oral in California.
