Keokuk Daily Gate Tuesday January 28, 1964
Earl R. Davis, 46, of 1208 Bluff who became ill while at work in the Keokuk Electro-Metals plant Monday was pronounced dead on arrival at Graham hospital at 7 p.m.
He had been in failing health for four years.
Born December 8, 1917 in Quincy he was the son of Dave and Bertha Beard Davis. He came to Keokuk as a baby and except for a few years in Kentucky had lived here since. He was an oiler at the Electro-Metals Co.
On July 23, 1943 in Kahoka he married Darlene Doris Stark.
A World War II veteran he entered service July 4, 1942 in Des Moines and spent 20 months in England and France, cooking at a Station Hospital and Convalescent center. He was discharged in December of 1945 at Camp Crowder, Mo.
Surviving are his wife, four daughters, Delta, Carla [sic], Earlene and Alitha of Keokuk, his mother Mrs. Bertha Davis of Keokuk, a sister, Mrs. John (Florella) Vermeesch of Keokuk and nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Schmidt Memorial Home with the Rev. B. Lawrence Sweeney officiating. Military rites will be held in the National cemetery.
Earl R. Davis, 46, of 1208 Bluff who became ill while at work in the Keokuk Electro-Metals plant Monday was pronounced dead on arrival at Graham hospital at 7 p.m.
He had been in failing health for four years.
Born December 8, 1917 in Quincy he was the son of Dave and Bertha Beard Davis. He came to Keokuk as a baby and except for a few years in Kentucky had lived here since. He was an oiler at the Electro-Metals Co.
On July 23, 1943 in Kahoka he married Darlene Doris Stark.
A World War II veteran he entered service July 4, 1942 in Des Moines and spent 20 months in England and France, cooking at a Station Hospital and Convalescent center. He was discharged in December of 1945 at Camp Crowder, Mo.
Surviving are his wife, four daughters, Delta, Carla [sic], Earlene and Alitha of Keokuk, his mother Mrs. Bertha Davis of Keokuk, a sister, Mrs. John (Florella) Vermeesch of Keokuk and nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Schmidt Memorial Home with the Rev. B. Lawrence Sweeney officiating. Military rites will be held in the National cemetery.
Keokuk Daily Gate Tuesday January 28, 1964
Earl R. Davis, 46, of 1208 Bluff who became ill while at work in the Keokuk Electro-Metals plant Monday was pronounced dead on arrival at Graham hospital at 7 p.m.
He had been in failing health for four years.
Born December 8, 1917 in Quincy he was the son of Dave and Bertha Beard Davis. He came to Keokuk as a baby and except for a few years in Kentucky had lived here since. He was an oiler at the Electro-Metals Co.
On July 23, 1943 in Kahoka he married Darlene Doris Stark.
A World War II veteran he entered service July 4, 1942 in Des Moines and spent 20 months in England and France, cooking at a Station Hospital and Convalescent center. He was discharged in December of 1945 at Camp Crowder, Mo.
Surviving are his wife, four daughters, Delta, Carla [sic], Earlene and Alitha of Keokuk, his mother Mrs. Bertha Davis of Keokuk, a sister, Mrs. John (Florella) Vermeesch of Keokuk and nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Schmidt Memorial Home with the Rev. B. Lawrence Sweeney officiating. Military rites will be held in the National cemetery.
Earl R. Davis, 46, of 1208 Bluff who became ill while at work in the Keokuk Electro-Metals plant Monday was pronounced dead on arrival at Graham hospital at 7 p.m.
He had been in failing health for four years.
Born December 8, 1917 in Quincy he was the son of Dave and Bertha Beard Davis. He came to Keokuk as a baby and except for a few years in Kentucky had lived here since. He was an oiler at the Electro-Metals Co.
On July 23, 1943 in Kahoka he married Darlene Doris Stark.
A World War II veteran he entered service July 4, 1942 in Des Moines and spent 20 months in England and France, cooking at a Station Hospital and Convalescent center. He was discharged in December of 1945 at Camp Crowder, Mo.
Surviving are his wife, four daughters, Delta, Carla [sic], Earlene and Alitha of Keokuk, his mother Mrs. Bertha Davis of Keokuk, a sister, Mrs. John (Florella) Vermeesch of Keokuk and nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Schmidt Memorial Home with the Rev. B. Lawrence Sweeney officiating. Military rites will be held in the National cemetery.
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