Earl Meairs had a stroke in 1948 and passed away. Earl Meairs' brother Charlie Meairs took all of Earl's money and lands. The orphans were left out. Earl had always promised, and a will was in existence, that awarded his half of Earl and Charlie's Isabelle enterprises, to include a ranch, bank and live stock, to his brother Archie's Orphaned children. This was because Earl and Charlie used revenue from the Orphan's Yates Center, Kansas homestead, to help develop their Isabelle enterprises. Earl changed his will on his death bed, leaving all of his holdings to Charlie. Charlie was the only person with Earl when he changed the long standing will that awarded his holdings to the Orphans. When the will was read everyone was shocked and many people that knew and were close to Earl, advised the Orphans should seek legal assistance to have the will overturned and the original will be honored. The Orphans did not have the money to hire the lawyers and the second will was never contested. The original will conveniently disappeared. It had been entrusted to Charlie, in the Isabelle Bank.

Carol (Meairs) Moore, asked Virgie what kind of a man she thought her Uncle Earl was? Virgie answered. He was a wonderful man; a bachelor. He was in the Infantry on Luzon, in the Philippine Islands during the Philippine insurrection. He helped a lot of people in Isabel. I Don't know why he never married.