HACKBARTH, Orie W., Sr. 1906-1993

HACKBARTH, PERKINS

Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 10/6/2006 at 20:00:59

AUSTIN, MINN. -- The funeral for Orie W. Hackbarth Sr. will be Wednesday at Grace Lutheran Church in Austin, with the Rev. Bruce Wilder officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery in Austin.

Mr. Hackbarth, 86, of 411 12th Ave. N.E. and a retired Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Sunday evening (March 28, 1993) at St. Olaf Hospital.

Born July 9, 1906, in St. Ansgar, Iowa, he married Helen Perkins on Aug. 5, 1933. He had worked in the Kieser shipyards in Richmond, Calif., in his early years and after moving to Austin was a welder and pipefitter at Hormel for 27 years. He retired in 1970.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Orie W. Jr. of Deatsville, Ala., and Gary of Austin; six grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a brother, Harlan of St. Ansgar. A sister and a brother preceded him in death.

Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Clasen-Jordan Mortuary in Austin and an hour before the service Wednesday at the church.

Memorials are suggested to a charity of the donor's choice.