Services were held Jan. 3, 1970 at the Christian church in Nortonville for Lewis Wear, 78. The Rev. Millard White officiating. Burial was in the Nortonville Cemetery. The Hagg funeral home in Valley, Falls was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Wear was born June, 20, 1891 in the state of Nebraska, a son of Rankin and Serena Wear. He and the former Bessie DeLand were married July 9, 1909, at Farnam, Neb. She died in 1958.

He was a veteran of World War I, member of the VFW at Farmington and a member of the Nortonville Christian church.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Tomlinson, Kennewick, Wash.; two sons, Rayfield Wear, Farmington, Minn., and Archie Wear, Philadelphia, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Hazen, Caldwell, Idaho; a brother, Will Wear, Fort Dodge, Ia.; 23 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

Dick Lindsay, Willard Clinkenbeard, Earl Stillman, Andrew Anderson, Clan Leighton and Ira E. Bond were pallbearers.

The Winchester Star 111(49):6 Friday, January 9, 1970