Earl Lester Myers

Earl Lester Myers, Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Harmony Hall Baptist Church for Earl Lester Myers of Lula, who died Friday in Hall County Hospital. Mr. Myers, 65, was found near his home Thursday afternoon a victim of gunshot wounds. A farmer, he was born in Jackson County but had lived in Hall County most of his life. The funeral rites at 2 p.m. Sunday will be conducted by the Revs. F.M. and O. P. Shirley. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. E.L. Myers, Gainesville; four sons, Odis, Hamp and Joel Myers all of Gainesville, and J. H. Myers, Long Beach, Calif., one daughter, Mrs. William Coor, Atlanta; two brothers, Dewey Myers, Homer and Ed Myers, Alto; two sisters, Mrs. Tillie Armour, Mrs. Lillie Forrester, Lula route 1 and 10 grandchildren. Ward's Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. (The Times, Gainesville, Sunday, July 8, 1956, page 8)

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