OBITUARY: Earl Herbert Pilgrim, 1916-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; December 4, 1997]




                        Earl Herbert Pilgrim

MASON CITY, IOWA-- Earl Herbert Pilgrim, 80, of 830 S. Fifth St., Osage,
Iowa, and formerly of Mason City, died Saturday (Nov. 29, 1997) at the
North Iowa Mercy Health Center East, Mason City.

Funeral services will be held today at Hogan Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126
Third St. N.E., Mason City, with the Rev. Jerry Newland, of the Osage
First Baptist Church, officiating. 

Earl Herbert Pilgrim was born Nov. 23, 1916, in Osage, son of William and
Ruth (Bigelow) Pilgrim. He married Mary Francis Galkin on Sept. 5, 1953,
in Mason City.

Earl grew up in the Osage area and worked on area farms. He worked at
Mercy Hospital for 13 years until he and his family moved to Rockford
where he worked for Trenttian's Hatchery until retiring.

Survivors include one son, Jerry Pilgrim and his wife, Karri, Ewa Beach,
Hawaii; two grandchildren, Aaron Michael and Nicholas Adam Pilgrim, both
of Ewa Beach, Hawaii; one sister, Wildora Merrill.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and one son, Michael Pilgrim;
and one brother Maurice Pilgrim.




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