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The Life of EDWARD LEROY PENNISTON

Services for Edward L. Penniston, 80, of 2628 E. Walnut St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Hamilton Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery.  Mr. Penniston died of a heart ailment Sunday at Iowa Methodist Hospital.  He was ill 14 months.

Mr. Penniston had been a Des Moines resident 18 years, formerly living in Defiance, where he was born.  Before his retirement in 1957, he was an auditor for the Iowa State Tax Commission for 11 years.

Surviving are his widow, Ethel; a stepson, Richard Mongar and Torrance, CA; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Elinor Krouse, of Des Moines; a brother, Ross of Manilla; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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