Gerald Lee Harden (2024)

BAMSEY, HARDEN, HOEPKER, PLATT, THOMSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 7/12/2024 at 15:32:17

Powers Funeral Home
Creston, Iowa
July 2024

October 3, 1930 - July 11, 2024

Gerald Harden, 93, of Mt Ayr, formerly of Creston, died Thursday, July 11, 2024, at Clearview Nursing Home in Mt. Ayr. A Celebration of Life service will be on Monday, July 15, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Pastor Jodi Rushing will officiate the service. The burial will be at Greenfield Cemetery. Open visitation, with family receiving friends will be Monday July 15, 2024, from 1-2 p.m. prior to the service, at the Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Memorials are kindly suggested to Clearview Home in Mt. Ayr. Online condolences can be given at powersfh.com.

Gerald Lee Harden, son of Nile Quinton Harden and Hazel Irene (Platt) Harden, was born October 3, 1930, in Adair Co., Iowa, near Orient. Gerald attended Zion school and later graduated from Zion High School. Gerald lived in Adair County until moving to Madison County in 1951, where he farmed with his father, and carried the Shopper.

Gerald moved to Creston in 1993 with his mother where he began doing handyman work and began working for Hy-Vee. In 1994, Gerald met Janie Marie Thomson and in 2000 they were married. They lived in Creston and in 2015, as a couple, they moved to C.A.R.E. in Afton. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Creston.

Gerald is survived by his cousins, Don and Kim Hoepker. Gerald is preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Janice in 2021, his aunts Maxine (Kenneth) Hoepker and Edith (husband Dale) Bamsey.

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