Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Eads, Carroll November 5, 1955
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Maquoketa Community Press, Nov. 8, 1955


    Maquoketa Community Press, November 8, 1955

    CARROLL EADS DEAD; PROMINENT FARMER

    Preston, Iowa. November 7

    Carroll Eads, a prominent Preston-Miles area farmer, died early Friday
morning in the Jackson County Public Hospital in Maquoketa. Mr. Eads was
hospitalized the afternoon before. Funeral services were held Monday in the
Campbell funeral home followed by rites in the Presbyterian church. The Rev.
Duane Basil, pastor officiated and interment was made in the Preston cemetery.

    A past president of the Jackson County Farm Bureau, Mr. Eads last Tuesday
retired after a two year term as president of the Jackson County Fair
Association. He was a member of the county fair board, the Sabula Isaac Walton
League chapter and president of the Jackson National Farm Loan Association. He
was an alternate voting delegate for the county Farm Bureau at the time of his
death.

    A well=known Guernsey dairy cattlemen, Eads was active also in the Clinton
Dairy Herd Improvement Association. He was one of those spearheading the the
movement for the Jackson County Public Hospital and volunteered in acquiring the
three 4H livestock barns in Maquoketa.

    Eads was born January 14, 1905 at Emeline, Iowa, a son of Irving and Myrtle
Eads. His widow, Anna, survives him, along with his mother and three sons,
Glenn, Charles and James. Charles is serving in Germany with the U. S. Army and
the other two sons are at home. Also surviving are two brothers, Lyman Eads of
Spirit Lake and Henry Eads of Emeline, and two grandchildren. 



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