CHEYNEY, Paul H. (1902-1963)

CHEYNEY, HAMILTON, BEMAN, KERCHEVAL, KING

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 11/27/2006 at 20:38:38

GLENWOOD OPINION-TRIBUNE
DATED MAY 2, 1963:

Paul Hamilton Cheyney was born July 14, 1902, in Glenwood, the son of Harrison Cheyney and Marjorie Hamilton, both members of pioneer Mills county families.

He attended the Glenwood schools from which he was graduated in 1920. He attended the University of Nebraska, from which he received a degree in business administration in 1925.

He was married to Anne Beman July 14, 1928. To them were born four children, a son who died in infancy, two daughters, Mrs. M. L. Kercheval of Grand Junction, Colo., Mrs. Richard C. King of Council Bluffs and a son, Paul, Jr., attending the State University of Iowa. He had five grandchildren, Heidi, Michael Paul, Kristin, Jeffrey Kercheval, and Kenneth Paul King.

He was a member of the Masonic lodge, Rotary, I.O.O.F. and Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, a past president and pianist of Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, the Iowa State Association of Insurance Agents.

He became a member of the First Congregational church of Glenwood, April 8, 1917, and served as treasurer of the church for 17 years; he also served as deacon and trustee.

At the time of his death he was vice president of the University of Iowa Dad’s association, on the state board of the Association of Independent Insurance Agents, and a director of the Glen Haven home. He served as city clerk for 18 years.

He was associated with his father in the Mills County Bank until he formed his own insurance business in 1927, which he had operated continuously since then. He was president of Paul H. Cheyney, Inc., and president of the Midwest Loan Company. He had received innumerable awards from the insurance companies and the associations of which he was a member.

In recent years he had traveled extensively, to Europe and just recently to the Holy Land. He loved to take pictures of these places and to show them.

He died suddenly in his sleep early Friday morning, April 26, 1963.

Services were held Monday at 1 p.m. from the First Congregational church with the Rev. Helen G. Galazka, formerly of Glenwood, but now of Minneapolis, officiating.

Organ music was provided by Mrs. Francis Dashner. Ushers were Gordon Aistrope, Luther Gammon, Clair Clark and Gary Lemonds.

Flower ladies were Mrs. Dick Hiatt, Mrs. Fay McManigal, Mrs. R. C. Good, Mrs. F. E. Wilson, Mrs. Edward Hopp, Mrs. William Drake, Mrs. Jack Bergman and Mrs. Carroll Bloom.

Casket bearers were Hugh LaRue, Donald Wheeler, Bert Colwell, Eliot Thomas, Gerald Fickel and Frank Nimic.

Interment was in the Glenwood cemetery. Raynor-Hamilton were in charge of arrangements.