Harlan W. Bingaman

BINGAMAN, DOUGLAS, METTETAL, SHETTERLY, REYNOLDS, BOBENHOUSE, BURNS, WARD

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 2/9/2006 at 16:00:42

March 1974
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Harlan Bingaman

Harlan W. Bingaman, a resident of Madison County, Earlham, Iowa, died at Methodist hospital in Des Moines, February 22, of injuries sustained in an auto mishap February 7. He was 70 years of age.

Mr. Bingaman was born July 10, 1903, at Maryville, Missouri, the son of Harry and Nancy Arminnie Bingaman. He was married to Zola M. Douglas at Earlham on August 20, 1961.

A portion of his early childhood was spent in Kansas and Oklahoma. This family came to rural Greenfield in his early childhood. His schooling took place at Greenfield and Winterset, where he was graduated. He also attended the business college in Grand Island, Nebraska.

The past 40 years he lived and worked in the Central Iowa area, retiring from John Deere Des Moines Works in 1968.

Mr. Bingaman became a member of the Earlham Church of Christ in the summer of 1961. Since that time he has been an active participant in the Kiamichi Mountain Missions, the North American Christian Convention and the National Missionary Convention. He found much joy in his activities in the church and the Central Iowa Bible Camp, Earlham.

Survivors include his wife, Zola of Earlham; a stepmother, Lucille Bingaman of Winterset; one son, Harold of Ashland, Oregon; one daughter, Nancy Mettetal of Des Moines. Also surviving are one stepson, T. Wayne Douglas, Albert Lea, Minnesota; three step daughters; Evelyn Shetterly, Littleton, Colorado; Betty Reynolds, Earlham; Wilman Bobenhouse, Des Moines; and fourteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren, as well as one brother, Albert of Greenfield; two half sisters: Marilyn Burns of Jamaica, Iowa and Linda Ward of Crystal, Minnesota. A number of nieces, nephews and cousins also survive.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three wives, two sisters who died very young in life.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 26, at the Earlham Church of Christ in Earlham with Pastors Walter V. Jones, Des Moines and T. Wayne Douglas, Albert Lea, Minnesota officiating. Burial was in Greenfield Cemetery.