Eli H. 'Sarge' McNeal, 78, 317 East Fourth Street, died this morning at Veteran's Hospital in Indianapolis.   He had been ill two weeks.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday from the Voss Chapel with Dr. B. G. Wiggs, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene here, officiating.   Military graveside services will be conducted at Riverview Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Voss Mortuary after 2 p.m. Friday.

A native of Springfield, Illinois, Mr. McNeal was born July 6, 1896, to the late John and Sarah Wooten McNeal.

He moved to Jackson County in 1945 and was employed for 18 years with the Veterans Hospital in Marion.  : He retired as a carpenter.

Mr. McNeal was a veteran of World War I and was a member of the Leslie-Arbuckle-Zimmerman Post No. 1925, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Gas City Masonic Lodge No. 645, and Seymour Aerie No. 655, Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Charles (Mildred) Poindexter, of Madison, Mrs. Hershel (Norma) Banks of North Vernon, and Mrs. Alan (Barbara) Northcutt, of Seymour; one brother, Phil McNeal, of this city; two sisters, Mrs. Viola Evans, of Madison, and Mrs. Clara Whitehead, of this city, nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. 

Mr. McNeal was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.

ŠThe Daily Tribune, Seymour, Indiana (January 23, 1975)