Melvin (Pete) W. Hilsabeck

HILSABECK, BOSTON, PATTON, WALTON

Posted By: Joseph K. Hilsabeck (email)
Date: 6/2/2011 at 02:32:34

The Glasgow Missourian, Glasgow, Missouri, Thursday, March 20 1980

M. W. Hilsabeck Died Monday, March 10, 1980

Melvin W. (Pete) Hilsabeck of Fayette died Monday, March 10 at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Medical Center in Columbia after a long illness. He was 65 years old.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p. m. Saturday at Linn Memorial Methodist Church with the Rev. Donald Jarvis officiating. Burial was in Walnut Ridge Cemetery with Robert Thompson, J. Y. Miller, Lee Gose, Wendell Kinnison, Larry Gebhardt and John Horton serving as pallbearers.
Visitation at the Ralph A. Carr Funeral Home was from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. Friday, with a Masonic service at 7:30 p. m.
Melvin W. Hilsabeck was born April 27, 1914 in Marshall County, Iowa, a son of Finley and Edith Fay Patton-Hilsabeck, and was married October 7, 1950 to Mary Louise Walton of Onawa, Iowa.
Mr. Hilsabeck served 40 months during World War II in the United States Air Force, 26 months overseas in the Pacific Theater. He had been a construction foreman for the state highway department. He was a member of White-Bell American Legion Post 273, a member of Fayette Lodge No. 47, A. F. and A. M. and a member of Linn Memorial Church.
In addition to his widow, survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Edna Morey of Marshalltown, Iowa and Mrs. Minnie Curry of Arlington, Washington; and 19 nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by one sister and one brother.
The family suggests expressions of sympathy be in the form of memorials to the R. R. and Mary E. Walton Memorial Scholarship Fund at Central Methodist College.