Lowell Henry Hoberland 1916 - 2000

HOBERLAND, DEAL, MCVITTY, KINNETZ, CATES, HUGHES

Posted By: Loretta Hughes (email)
Date: 8/3/2008 at 14:51:43

Lowell Henry Hoberland
Sept. 16, 1916 - May 11, 2000

Lowell Henry Hoberland, 83, of Radcliffe, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at the Hubbard Care Center in Hubbard. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m. Today at the Zearing Christian Church in Zearing. The body will be cremated following the service and the cremains will be buried at a later date in the Lincoln Township Cemetery in Zearing.

Lowell Henry Hoberland was born on Sept. 16, 1916 in Zearing, the son of John and Ethel (Deal) Hoberland of Zearing. He attended and graduated from Lincoln Township Consolidated School in Zearing. In the 1930's, he drove a school bus for the Lincoln Township School and was a projectionist at the outdoor and indoor theaters in Zearing.

He married Gladys Mable McVitty on Jan. 18,1937, in Zearing.

He worked as a farmhand. He was a longtime livestock semi-truck driver, driving from the 1930's to the mid-1960's. He won the American Trucking Association's Driver of the Year Award for the state of Iowa in 1964 for driving 1 million miles without an accident. He retired from trucking and started the Hoberland Tree Service. In 1969, he left Zearing to work with horses in California. He drove Hackney Ponies at the Santa Anita and Hollywood Park race tracks and at the Los Angeles County Fair. He retired in 1983. After retirement, he moved to Nevada then Radcliffe and started raising Miniature horses and Shetland ponies. He was a member of the Zearing Saddle Club from 1940 to 1969, Ames Town and Country Saddle Club, American Shetland Pony Club, IOF Foresters, Thousand Trails, American Miniature Horse Registry, and the Zearing Volunteer Fireman Department from 1930 to 1969.

He is survived by his wife; three daughters, Peggy Marlene Kinnetz of Iowa Falls, Ilo Jean Cates of Bella Vista, Ark. and Loretta Helen Hughes of Ames; two sons, Danny Ellis Hoberland of Vevay, Ind. and James Lowell Hoberland of Phelan, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; seven nieces and nephews. He was preceeded in death by one sister.

Memorials can be made to the Homeward Hospice in Ames or Hubbard Care Center in Hubbard.

Boeke Funeral Home in Hubbard is in charge of the arrangements.

(From either the Nevada Journal or the Ames Tribune)