*Stella was his first wife and mother of his children.

"Rev. Easton Dies at 61
Methodist Pastor Fatally Stricken at Birdsboro
Birdsboro, April 25-
The Rev. Jesse G. Eaton, pastor of the Alice Focht Memorial Methodist Church, this borough, since May 1956, died this morning in the Reading Hospital. He was 61.
Rev. Mr. Eaton, born in New Freedom, a son of the late Jesse R. and Addie (Wolf) Eaton, served 33 years in the ministry.
He was a graduate of New Freedom High School, Western Maryland College, Westminister, Md.
His first church assignment was in West Baltimore, Md., where from 1926 to 1939, he served various Methodist churches in that area.

Called to Philadelphia
He accepted a call to St. Luke's Northwest District Philadelphia, in 1939, remaining in that post for two years. In 1941, he was named pastor of the South Chester Methodist Church, Chester.
From 1945 to 1949, Rev. Mr. Eaton served as pastor of the Price Street Methodist Church in Chester, and then in 1949 he was named pastor of the Yardley and Washington Crossing Methodist churches.
He accepted a call as pastor of Gethsemane Methodist Church, Philadelphia, in 1952, and three years later was named pastor of the Hamburg Methodist Church, a post he held until his transfer to this borough in 1956.

Widow Survives
The Pastor is survived by his widow, Helen (Trout) Eaton; two sons; Glaison J., stationed with the U.S. Air Force in Germany, and Burns W., of Philadelphia; a daughter, Winifred, wife of Earl Fox, Reading; three sisters: Goldie, wife of H. Clinton Cooper, New Freedom; Anna, wife of Norman S. Rohrbaugh, Shrewsbury, and Margaret, wife of Stanley Martin, Philadelphia; a brother, Charles, of Dayton, Ohio, and four grandchildren.
Services will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Alice Focht Memorial Church, this place, with the Rev. Dr. Alexander K. Smith, superintendent of the Northwest District of the Philadelphia Methodist Conference, officiating.
Further services will be held Wednesday in the Maryland Line Methodist Church, Md., with the Rev. Robert E Mitzel officiating. Burial will be made in the Lutheran Church Cemetery, Shrewsbury."
Reading Eagle
Reading Pennsylvania
Saturday, April 25, 1959
Page 11.