Hiner, Mae Alice 1889-1965

HINER, ROBEY, ZIGLER, WHEELER, HOLLAND, SMITH, MICHAEL, MORRISON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 3/10/2010 at 12:47:04

The Brooklyn Chronicle (Brooklyn, Iowa) Sept. 9, 1965

LAST RITES SUNDAY FOR MRS. MAE HINER

Funeral services for Mrs. Mae Hiner, 75, were held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at Grace Methodist church with the Rev. C.W. Woollard officiating. Leo Shuler was organist.

Interment was in the I.O.O.F. cemetery with the following grandsons serving as pallbearers: Jim Zigler of Brooklyn, Jake Hiner and Jerry Hiner of Springville, Larry Wheeler of Muscatine, Larry Holland of Olewein and Kenneth Smith of Kaukauna, Wisc. Flower attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Patten and Mr. and Mrs. Jess Bunnell.

Mae Alice Hiner, the first child of Thomas and Dora Robey, was born Sept. 19, 1889, near Malcom. She died Sept. 2, 1965, in St. Francis hospital in Grinnell where she had been admitted two days earlier. Mrs. Hiner had been in poor health for the last few years.

She was married to George Hiner March 27, 1907, and the couple farmed near Brooklyn before moving into town. With the exception of five years in Cedar county, they had always lived in this community. Mr. Hiner died in January, 1944.

Mrs. Hiner is survived by eight children. They are Lavina Hiner, at home; Mrs. Lyle (Neva) Zigler, Harold Hiner, Mrs. Glen (Gladys) Wheeler, Mrs. Lester (Lola) Wheeler and Mrs. Harold (Norma) Michael, all of Brooklyn; Howard Hiner of Grinnell and Jacob Hiner of Springville.

She also leaves two sisters and a brother, Christina Robey of Des Moines, Mrs. Ellen Morrison of Brooklyn and Alfred Robey of Malcom. She leaves 21 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, four sisters, two daughters and one son.