SHARON - The funeral for Herschel Noland Eagon, 61, farmer and rancher who died early today in his home at Sharon, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Baptist Church there. The Rev. Rolland Callon and the Rev. Ed. Sassnett will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery under direction of Billings Funeral Home, Mooreland.
The casket will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at the Sharon Baptist Church.
Eagon was born June 4, 1923, near Gage and attended Lutherhill School, graduating from Gage High School. He was a veteran of World War II, serving as a medic with the United States Army. He then attended Oklahoma State University.
Eagon also worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and owned and operated a service station at Shattuck. He and Jean Love were married March 25, 1951, at Shattuck. They moved to West Texas where he worked as a mud engineer for Mud Control Laboratories, Oklahoma City. In 1956 the couple moved to a farm west of Sharon.
Survivors include his wife, Jean; one daughter, Lynette White, Vici; two sons, Douglas, Woodward, and Clay Don, Sharon; two brothers, Dennis, Oklahoma City, and Orville, Carter; three sisters, Mrs. Robert Oblander, Shattuck, Mrs Milford Johnson, Wichita, Kan., and Mrs, Robert Williams, Duncanville, Texas; and three grandchildren.