Charles Lester Stonehocker (1987)
BERRY, HAWKINS, STONEHOCKER, WALKUP
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 10/4/2006 at 19:26:33
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 15, 1987CHARLES LESTER STONEHOCKER, Macksburg
Funeral services for Charles Lester Stonehocker, 40, of Macksburg were held Monday, June 29, at the United Methodist Church in Adel with Rev. Lanny Tuttle officiating. He died June 26, 1987, at Veterans Administration Hospital in Des Moines of cancer.
Burial was at Panther Creek Cemetery near Adel. Pallbearers were Wayne Oglesbee, Don Russell, Jerry Stutzman, John Caudle, Ken Thompson, and Myron Allen.
Charles Stonehocker was born March 15, 1947, in Des Moines, the son of Lester and Lela Stonehocker. He graduated from high school in Brookfield, Mo., in 1966. He served in the United States Army in Germany, and was a member of the Army Reserve for 11 years. After his discharge from the service, Stonehocker was employed by a gravel company in Winterset.
He married Joyce Walkup on September 25, 1976, in Des Moines. They lived in DeSoto for seven years and later moved to Glidden, where he farmed with his father-in-law, Ed Walkup, for three years. He moved with his family to Macksburg in 1986, where he was employed by the Victor Edwards Trucking Co.
He was a member of Wesley Chapel of Macksburg.
Stonehocker was preceded in death by one sister, Rose.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce; two children, Amy, 9, and Steven, 8; his parents, Lester and Lela Stonehocker of Winterset; four brothers; Gary of Redfield, Dave of Thayer, Danny of Afton and Leslie of Winterset; two sisters; Virginia Hawkins of Lorimor and Elvera Berry of Lorimor; and one grandmother, Alma Stonehocker of Winterset.
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