Nancy Jean Hinkel 1944 - 2025
HINKEL, SOLBERG, BALLANTYNE
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/15/2025 at 17:54:02
Onawa Democrat
5 March 2025Nancy Jean Hinkel, 80, of Moorhead, Iowa, passed away Thursday, February 27, 2025, at her home surrounded by her family and friends.
A memorial service will be 10:30 A.M. Thursday, March 6, 2025 at the Moorhead Christian Church, Moorhead, Iowa with Pastor Chuck Snow and Pastor Jeff Hicks, officiating. A recording of the service will be posted on the Goslar Funeral Home website with Nancy’s obituary. A luncheon will follow at the Moorhead Community Building, Moorhead, Iowa. A visitation will be 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at the Moorhead Christian Church. Arrangements are under the direction of Goslar Funeral Home and Monuments, Onawa, Iowa.
Nancy Jean was born May 4, 1944, in Onawa, Iowa to Earl and Joyce (Solberg) Ballantyne. She lived most of her life in Moorhead. After graduating from Moorhead High School in 1962, she attended beauty school in Sioux City, Iowa, and then worked in a shop in Omaha, Nebraska.
On February 9, 1964, she married Keith Hinkel from Pisgah. The first part of their marriage was in Valparaiso, Indiana, where Keith was stationed in the army. Nine months later they were blessed with twin boys, Bryan and Byron and they were the joy of Nancy’s life. The couple later moved to Council Bluffs and then came back to live around the Moorhead area.
On April 21, 1992, they were blessed with a granddaughter, Kandace Dawn, Bryan’s daughter. On January 17, 2008, they were blessed with a great-grandson, Wyatt Jon.
Nancy worked for West Central Community Action for eight and half years as an outreach, cooked for Burgess Hospital, activity and social worker at Elmwood Nursing Home for five years, and worked at the Dunlap Town and Country for several years. On August 21, 1987 she worked for Head Start where she worked for twenty-two years and then retired. Later she worked part time at the pre-school at Maple Valley as a sub, a librarian at Moorhead, and then at the cultural center in Moorhead.
Nancy was a member of the Moorhead Christian Church and served as Deacon and Deaconess.
Survivors include her husband, Keith Hinkel of Moorhead, Iowa; two sons, Bryan Hinkel of Moorhead, Iowa, and Byron Hinkel of Onawa, Iowa; granddaughter, Kandace; six great-grandchildren, Wyatt, Shyanne, Scarlett, Josalyn, Harper, and Axel; brother, Richard (Linda) Ballantyne; and several nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Earl and Joyce (Solberg) Ballantyne; and both sets of grandparents.
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