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EASTMAN, Jimmy Lyle 1931-1998

EASTMAN, SHEPHERD

Posted By: County Coordinator (kermit)
Date: 9/18/2010 at 18:00:49

Jimmy L. Eastman

RICEVILLE, IOWA — Jimmy L. Eastman, 66, of Riceville, died Saturday, May 9, 1998, at Mitchell County Memorial Hospital, Osage.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Lindstrom Funeral Home, Riceville, with the Rev. Edythe Hill officiating. Burial will be at the Riverside Cemetery, Riceville.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Lindstrom Funeral Home.

Jimmy Lyle Eastman, the 11th and youngest child of Mahlon Kyle and Elsie Leota Shepherd Eastman, was born July 30, 1931, in Howard City, north of Riceville. He attended country schools and graduated from McIntire High School in 1950. Jim graduated from Reisch Auction College, Mason City, in December 1956.

Jim was united in marriage to Sharon Peterson on June 18, 1960, in the Little Brown Church in Nashua.

He taught at the Reisch Auction College for several years and was in the auction business for 42 years. He sold cars at the Central States Auto Auction at Mason City and Shakopee, Minnesota. Jim also sold livestock at the South St. Paul, Minnesota, Stockyards, local salebarns and two federal prisons in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Sandstone, Minnesota.

In later years, he received a salesman license to sell real estate through Govern and Govern Realty. Along with auctioneering, Jim was a farmer until he retired in 1993. He enjoyed his grandsons, auctioneering, farming, talking to people, watching horse racing, sports and having a good time.

Jim is survived by his wife, Sharon, of Riceville; one son, James Dean, and his wife, Connie, of Riceville, and their two sons, Lyle and Ryan; two daughters, Debra Ann Eastman, of Osage and JoAnn Lyn Eastman, of Colfax; one brother, Herbert Eastman, and his wife, Lorene, of Austin, Minnesota; three sisters, Esther Doane, of Little Cedar, Shirley Bucknell, and her husband, Virgil, of Leroy, Minnesota, and Lois Edgeton, and her husband, Leo, of Pine River, Minnesota; five sisters-in-law, Mildred (Dale) Eastman, of Riceville, Mary (Clinton) Eastman, of Riceville, Henrietta (Roger) Eastman, of Little Falls, Minnesota, Nelda (Homer) Eastman, of Janesville, and Norma (Amos) Eastman, of Otho; and many nieces and nephews.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents; five brothers, Dale, Amos, Homer, Clinton (Bus), and Roger; and one sister, Lelah Barnes.

Globe Gazette, May 11, 1998

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