Hawkins, Harry 1899-1978

HAWKINS, KING

Posted By: Linda Ewin Ziemann (email)
Date: 8/16/2003 at 17:20:11

Well Known Farmer Harry Hawkins Dead

Harry S. Hawkins, 78, LeMars, a Plymouth county native and longtime LeMars
area resident, died Thursday (Feb. 2, 1978) at Floyd Valley hospital in
LeMars after a lengthy illness. He had been at the hospital for two weeks.

Mr. Hawkins was a retired farmer and lived in Plymouth county with the
exception of five years in Woodbury county.

Harry Samuel Hawkins was born Aug. 23, 1899, near Kingsley to George and
Hanna Boom Hawkins. He married Elva Lois King. They attended the Adaville
United Methodist church.

His family moved to Western Plymouth county when he was 7 and he lived there
until 1938 when he moved to Grant township which has since been his home.
Harry was an ambitious and successful farmer, livestock raiser and feeder
and was active in field work until May 1977 when he became disabled. But he
was very much interested in the work on the farm and he was never ready to
retire.

Mr. Hawkins was a member of the Adaville church since 1920 and served many
years on the church board of trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins celebrated
their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1972.

Mr. Hawkins was preceded in death by his parents, two grandsons, Timothy in
1959 and Joel in 1971, and a daughter-in-law, Harriet Hawkins, in 1975.

Funeral services will be Monday, Feb. 6, at 1:30 p.m. at Adaville United
Methodist Church with Rev. J. Milton Kinney officiating. Burial will be in
Resthaven Memory Gardens under the direction of the Mauer funeral home.

Survivors are his wife, Elva, of LeMars; four sons, Duane of Wakonda, S.D.;
Royal of Minneapolis; Norris of LeMars and Lorvan of Ireton; six
grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Lela Bride of Sumner,
Wash. and Hazel Benton, Cedar Falls and a brother, George Hawkins, of
LeMars.

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