Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 12:13:53 :
Independent Journal
Saturday, June 19, 1976
Page 4
JASPER L. EDDINGS
Jasper L. Eddings, a traveling Pentecostal preach[er] and construction worker, who worked into his 80s, died yesterday at a local hospital after a long illness. He was 92.
Eddings was born in Arkansas and was ordained a minister in the Church of the Pentecost when he was 32. For the next 30 years he traveled throughout the Southwest and Mexico, preaching at various churches.
In 1942 he moved from St. Louis to California in search of sunshine and warm weather. He soon was joined by his wife, Nancy Ann Eddings, and their children. Mrs. Eddings died in 1957 after the couple had been married 51 years.
After retiring from active ministry, Eddings worked as a hod carrier in Marin and lived in Forest Knolls for 15 years. He was a member of Hod Carriers, Construction and General Laborer’s Union, Local 291 of San Rafael.
Since 1970, he had lived in Novato with his daughter, Grace Davidson, who survives. Also surviving are another daughter, Ethel Davis of Advance, Mo., and two sons, Earl Eddings, of Ferguson, Mo., and Glendon Eddings, of Novato; 19 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Keaton’s Chapel of Marin in Novato, with burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery, San Rafael. Pallbearers will be members of Chapter 2041 of the Loyal Order of Moose, Novato.
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A Death Notice in the same papers adds that he was the father of the late Ernest, Newton, Raymond and Essie Eddings.
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