Howard Courant
January 13, 1916
REV. G.E. COONS DEAD
Rev. G. E. Coons, pastor of the Methodist church at Grenola died suddenly Saturday evening at 8:20 o'clock.
He leaves to mourn his loss, a wife, two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Reeves of Omaha, Nebraska, Mrs. Frances Broadbent of Independence, Kansas, and one son, Glenn who resides at home and two sister's Mrs. George Hudson of Winfield and Mrs. M. E. Friss of Oklahoma City.
Rev. Coons was highly respected and an excellent minister. For the past three years he has been pastor of the Grenola Methodist church where he was greatly beloved by the congregation.
The funeral was held Tuesday.