Individual Details

Census (family)

Head Ben Cotton M 47 Iowa, H2, Meat Cutter Food Marker PW, 51 wks $1530
Wife Lucile Cotton F 45 Iowa. H4
Daughter Doris Eilers F 21 Iowa, C3, Trained Nurse Hospital PW, 6 wks, $95
Son-in-law Vernon Eilers M 23 Iowa, C2, Worker at plant Ice Company PW
Daughter Madonna Cotton F 23 Iowa, C1, Maid Hospital PW

Residence in 1935: Same Place

Death

Vernon Eilers

Funeral services for Vernon E. "Fuzz" Eilers, 64, w ere held at 11 a.m. Nov. 19 in the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello, and interment in the Oakwood Cemetery, Monticello. Rev. W. Willis Longer officiated at the services.
Mr. Eilers, died in the John McDonald Hospital, Monticello, Nov. 16, after an illness of several weeks.
He was born in Monticello, Aug. 3, 1916. He was the son of Benjamin Eilers and his wife, Virginia Tuel Eilers. He had received his early education in the schools of the Monticello area and graduated from the high school in 1935.
Vernon Eilers and Doris J. Cotton were married Sept. 26, 1939. The couple later moved to Burlington, where Mr. Eilers was employed as a production supervisor in the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, near Burlington. The past three years the couple lived in Monticello and Mr. Eilers was employed by the Transportation Department of the Monticello Area Schools.
He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, Monticello, and the Patriot Lodge A.F. & A.M. No. 650 in Burlington.
He is survived by his wife and two sons, Vernon E. Eilers Jr. of Burlington, and William Daniel Eilers of Biggsville, Ill. He is also survived by four grandchildren, a brother Harold Eilers, Hopkinton, and two sisters, Mrs. Edna Rhatigan and Margaret, Mrs. L. R. Hoag both of Monticello He was preceded in death by a son, his parents, a brother and four sisters.
Casket bearers were Phillip Tuetken, Roger Hearn, Larry Eilers, Loyal Hoag, Joe Tuetken and Mark Hearn.