NEPTUNE OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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NEPTUNE, Elmer Lee 1876 - 1964

Elmer Lee Neptune, 88, Belle Plaine, Kan., brother of Mrs. Cora N. Davis, 519 East 
Ohio, Clinton (Mo.) died Monday, Sept. 14 (1964) in a Wellington, Kan., hospital. 
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m., Sept. 17, at Belle Plaine. The Rev. Hugh C. 
Berry officiated, assisted by the Rev. Donald B. Zook. Seva Cheek, organist, 
accompanied singers, Barbara Brummet and Marjorie Ott. Committal services in 
the Belle Plaine Cemetery were conducted by the Belle Plaine Masonic Lodge No. 
173. Pallbearers were Don Spencer, Harold Hatfield, Jess McFarland, Lester 
Spencer, Barton Evers and George McAllister. Mr. Neptune was born March 9, 1876, 
in Lawrence, Ohio, one of four children of William Henry and Eliza Virginia Earles 
Neptune. Two sisters preceded him in death. The family moved to the Old Piper 
community in Henry County (Mo.) when Mr. Neptune was about a year old and there 
he was reared and educated. The family lived on the old Neptune homeplace 18 
miles south of Clinton. He moved to Belle Plaine, Kan., in the late 1800's. In 1926 
he married Maude Snyder and the home continued throughout their married live to 
be in Belle Plaine. Mr. Neptune was a retired blacksmith. He was a member of the 
Masonic Lodge, the Wichita Consistory and was past patron of the Eastern Star. 
Besides his sister in Clinton, he leaves his wife of the home, a daughter, Mrs. 
Mary Ruth Howe, a son Jim, both of Belle Plaine, Kan., three granddaughters; a 
number of other relatives and many friends.

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