• General Notes

  Alias:<ALIA> /C.A./
  Cause of Death:<CAUS> Heart disease
  REFN: 261
  Address:<ADDR>
  
  Marengo
  IA
  
  
  Charles died of heart disease. 
  The following excerpt is taken from the obituary in the Pioneer
  Republican newspaper of Iowa County dated July 1, 1943:
  "Death came Saturday to Charles Albert Myers, 77, a barber in
  Marengo and Omaha for 55 years, most of the time in Marengo.  While he
  had been bedfast for three years, his final illness dated back only one
  week.
  Interment was in the I.O.O.F cemetery
  Mr. Myers was born at Sheffield, Ill., August 27, 1865.  In his
  younger years he lived at Sheffield, in Lucas County and Iowa County and
  with an uncle, Will Woods of Bismark, N.D., returning from there to
  Marengo where he learned the barber trade in the shop owned by Banks
  Allum, on the same location as the present Earl Myers shop.
  Later Mr. Myers moved to Omaha, where in December 1887 he was united
  in marriage to Miss Olive Little.  In 1900 they came back to Marengo and
  Mr. Myers opened a barber shop in the building now housing the Louis
  Paine shop.  Three years later he moved his shop to the building on the
  south side of the square now occupied by the shop of his son Earl.  Here
  he continued to work at his trade until retiring seven years ago.
  Mr. Myers had been an active barber for more than 55 years.  A story
  telling of his rather unusual accomplishments was carried in an issue of
  the National Barber Magazine.
  During his active years, Mr. Myers was an enthusiastic member of
  various fraternal orders.  He was past master of Marengo lodge No. 114,
  A.F.&A.M. and he was a 32nd degree Mason, holding membership in both the
  Shrine and the Consistory.  A number of years ago he was active in both
  the I.O.O.F. and Knights of Pythias orders, as he was also in the
  Patriarchs Militant when M.A. Raney, former Marengo editor, was its
  highest ranking official for the entire world.  He was also a member of
  the Order of Eastern Star.
  Among those bereaved by his passing are his widow, two sons, Earl
  and Howard, both of Marengo; six grandchildren and one half-brother, O.F.
  Shedenhelm of Marengo.  A half-brother, G.W. Shedenhelm, preceded him in
  death."

Details of Charles Albert's family with Olive Little