BOLES, Lewis Leason
Date of death: 13 Mar 1949 – Indianpolis, Marion, County, Indiana
Franklin Evening Star, March 14, 1949,
Volume 64 Number 207, page 1 column 4
Lewis L. Boles
Dies At Capital
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Funeral Services Set
For Wednesday
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Lewis Leason Boles, age 50, a native of Johnson County, died suddenly at his home, 1215 Laurel street, Indianapolis Sunday afternoon.
Short services will be held at the Robert W. Stirling funeral home, 1422 Prospect street, Indianapolis, Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. The body will be brought to the First Mt. Pleasant Baptist church that afternoon at 1 o’clock and services will be conducted at 2 p.m. with burial in the church cemetery.
Friends are invited to call at the mortuary any time and to attend the rites.
Mr. Boles was the son of William Henry and Clara Lang Boles, and was born on the Lewis Vandivier farm in southwestern Johnson County Dec. 9, 1898. He was a graduate of Morgantown High School.
He was married to Blanch Miller at Morgantown Nov. 28, 1917, and three children were born to this couple.
For 18 years Mr. Boles was employed with Colonial Bread Company in Indianapolis. He then became associated with his brother William Lester Boles in the Monarch grocery business at the Indianapolis City Market, and for the last two years he was office manager for the Sawyer Biscuit Company of Chicago at the Indianapolis branch.
Mr. Boles united with the Morgantown Baptist church in his youth and had retained his membership there and he was a member of the Teamster’s Union.
Surviving are the widow and two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Eggerding, Miss Patricia Boles, and a son Robert Boles, all of Indianapolis, the brother Lester Boles and two grandchildren, Dietra Kay Boles and Donald Lee Eggerding, also of Indianapolis.
Relatives in Franklin who survive are two uncles, George Boles and Herman Boles, and an aunt, Mrs. George Boles. Another uncle, James Otis Boles, of Rayville, La. also survives.
Link to Lewis Leason Boles’ grave
Submitted by Dietra Rosenkoetter