Ballentine, Mae (Mrs. Charles) died 1932

BALLENTINE, AKN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 10/11/2016 at 05:10:16

Hawarden Independent of May 19,1932

Mrs. Chas. Ballentine Passed Away Tuesday at Van Meter, Iowa
Word was received here Tuesday of the death of Mrs. Chas. Ballentine of Van Meter, Iowa, which occurred that morning from tumor on the brain. Funeral services will be held at Van Meter and the remains will be brought overland to Hawarden Thursday night Interment will be made in Grace Hill Cemetery, at 8 o'clock Friday morning. Rev. Cornell, pastor of the Associated church, will conduct a brief burial service at the cemetery.

Mae Akin made her home during several years of her girlhood with her uncle and aunt, the late Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Akin, just northwest of Hawarden. She attended the Hawarden high school about thirty years ago and later was united in marriage with Barney Heubrock and continued to make her home here for a number of years. About twenty years ago Mr Heubrock lost his life in a fire in Tripp county, S. D., where he was doing carpenter work, leaving her a widow with three small children.

Later she was united in marriage with Chas. Ballentine and they have made their home on a farm
near Van Meter. Two children were born to this union. Besides her husband the children left to mourn her death are Mrs. Joyce Bell of Des Moines, Charles and Jesse Heubrock and Lena Mae and Jean Ballentine of Van Meter. The sympathy of many old Hawarden friends is extended to the members of her family.