Harlan C. Hein 1912-1946

HEIN, MEIER, WILD, MEAD, BULMAN, BAETHKE, EBERLING, MEYER, VERTHEIN, ZEZULKA, FOSSUM, ROLFE, SADLER, DOANE, ANDERSON, JASTER, SMERUD

Posted By: S. Ferrall IAGenWeb Volunteer
Date: 10/30/2011 at 20:34:55

Funeral services for Harlan Hein, 33, were held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Schutte Funeral Home in this city and at St. Paul's Lutheran church at two o'clock, with the Rev. Frederick R. Ludwig officiating. Interment was in Postville cemetery where military services were conducted by Arthur F. Brandt Post, 518, American Legion. Postville business places were closed during the services.

Mr. Hein, who served five months in the army in California before he was discharged because of his physical condition, passed away last Monday in the Veterans' Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn. folowing a lingering illness.

He was born in Postvile on July 15, 1912, the son of George W. and Emma Meier Hein, and spent his entire lifetime in this community, receiving his education in the Postville public schools. He was married to Lucile Marie Wild on November 26, 1936, by the Rev. R.B. Garten in this city, and to this union two children were born.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Karen Ann and Gloria Kay, his mother, two brothers, Harold Hein of Cedar Falls and Lewis Hein of Cedar Rapids, as well as numerous other relatives. His father passed away in 1937 and one sister died in infancy.

Out of town people here for the funeral were Wm. H. Hein of Valparaiso, Ind., Mrs. Guy Mead, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bulman and family and Miss Lorna Wild of Waterloo; Mrs. Tillie Baethke and John Eberling of Cresco; Mr. and Mrs. Victor Meyer of Monona; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Verthein, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Wild and Millard Wild, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wild, Mr. and Mrs. Harris Wild, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wild, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Zezulka, all of Lansing; Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wild, Adolph Fossum, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bulman, Mr. and Mrs. John Verthein, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rolfe, Mrs. Rose Sadler, all of Waukon; Mr. and Mrs. Alton Bulman of Dorchester; Mrs. Fred Doane, Mrs. Milton Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. John Jaster of Ossian; Mrs. Oscar Smerud, Mrs. Albert Meyer and Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Wild of New Albin.

~Postville Herald, January 23, 1946