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- John Thomas Newlin, 96, of Newton passed away at 10:12 p.m. Monday, December 6, 2010, at his residence.
Visitation will be be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, at Central Christian Church, 208 S. Jackson St., Newton. Funeral services celebrating his life will be held 11 a.m. Friday at the church. A brief service will be held in Falmouth Church of Christ before the burial in Chapel Cemetery, rural Falmouth. Barkley Funeral Chapel, Greenup, assisted the family with arrangements. Memorials may be made to Oblong's Christian Children's Home, Oblong, EIU Christian Campus House, Charleston, or Newlin's Vision for the Kingdom scholarship fund at St. Louis Christian College, Florissant, MO.
John was born October 26, 1914, in Cambridge, Idaho, the son of William F. and Lora (Eagleton) Newlin.
He was in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1945, serving his country in combat in the Solomon Islands. He received an honorable discharge in 1945.
He married "the girl next door," Louise Reisner, on April 26, 1946, at Central Christian Church, Newton. They were blessed with four daughters and one son, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Surviving are his daughters, Phyllis Rabb of Evansville, IN., Loire Wing and husband Doug, of Newton, Iowa, Vivian Price of Newton and Loret Newlin of Newton; daughter-in-law, Anita Newlin of Patoka. Also surviving are his sister, Maralida Ostert of Muscatine, Iowa, as well as grandchildren, Chris Wing and wife, Clarissa, Jenn (Wing) Wood and husband, Steve, Michelle (Rabb) Bender and husband, Burt, Conrad Price, Amanda Price and Hannah Hewlin; and five great-grandchildren, Symone and Sydney Bender, Walter and Vivienne Wood and Caitlyn Wing.
John was preceded in death by two brothers, Ora and Jasper; two sisters, Edith and Daisy; His wife, Louise; son, Howard; and great-grandson, Eli Bender.
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