Mr. Floyd Earls

Floyd C. Earls Floyd C. Earls, age 89, died January 15th, 2009 at The Hospice House of Kansas City on Wornall Road. Services will be held Saturday January 17, 2009 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Floral Hills. Visitation will be at 11:00 a.m. with funeral services at 12:00. Burial will follow at Mount Moriah Cemetery. Floyd was born Sept. 2nd, 1919 in Shawnee, Oklahoma to John and Cleo Earls. Floyd graduated from the Wisconsin School of banking and was in the banking business for a short time in his early career. Floyd served in the Army and was a veteran of World War II. After his service years Floyd owned the second and third Dairy Queen franchises in the state of Oklahoma. In 1951 Floyd went to work for General Adjustment Bureau and retired from that business as regional manager after 34 years of service. After his first retirement he started his own insurance appraisal business and was active in it until 2000. Preceding him in death was his parents, his two brothers, Clifford and Jim Earls, his first wife Leona Fay Earls who died in 1959, and his oldest son Clarke Earls who died in 1990. Floyd remarried New Years Eve, 1959 to the second love of his life of 49 years, Harriette A. Earls. He is survived by his youngest son Allan R. Earls and his wife Linda and his daughter Rebecca A. Kenagy and her husband Thomas and John Earls, his nephew. He is also survived by four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Floyd was an avid hunter, sportsman and a lover of nature and wildlife and supported all different kinds of wildlife programs. He was a past president of the Sertoma Club of Red Bridge and Blue Goose International, an insurance industry organization. Floyd's dream was to build a second home which he did at the Lake of the Ozarks in 1978 and then spent 25 years enjoying his free time overlooking HA HA Tonka State Park on the deck at the lake with his family and friends. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the Red Bridge United Methodist Church or Kansas City Hospice House. The family wants to express their immense gratitude and appreciation for the truly outstanding care Hospice provided Floyd in his last days. Fond memories and condolences for the family may be left at www.dwnewcomers.com (Arrangements: D.W. Newcomer's Sons Floral Hills Chapel, 7000 Blue Ridge Blvd., KCMO 64133, 816-353-1218).