HAMLIN, Roy B.: Died 1967

HAMLIN, CRANE, BERRY, CHRISTY, BARON, LONG, SEELY, MILLER, MCANINCH, KREAMER, CARTER, NEWLAND

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Date: 6/14/2017 at 22:03:49

Roy B. Hamlin

Roy B. Hamlin, 84, of Bonaparte died Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 5:20 a.m. in Davis County Hospital, Bloomfield. He had been in failing health for some time and seriously ill five days.

He was born July 9, 1883 in Exira, the son of Nathaniel D. and Elva Crane Hamlin.

On Jan. 5, 1910 at Livermore, he married Ethel Berry, who survives.

A resident of Bonaparte 30 years, he moved here from Fairfield. He was a partner in the Hamlin Brothers Coal Company.

Mr. Hamlin was a member of the Methodist church; a 50 year member of the Bonaparte lodge AF & AM, and had served a number of years as Rainbow Dad. He held the honorary degree of master of the Grand Cross of Color.

Surviving are four daughters: Mrs. Jack (Ruth) Christy of Bonaparte, Mrs. Robert (Lucille) Baron of South Fort Mitchell, Ky., Mrs. Francis (Areda) Long, and Mrs. Barbara Seely, of Des Moines; four brothers, Douglas of Farmington, Robert of Bonaparte, Vernon of Braddyville, Cecil of Chillicothy(Chillicothe), Mo.; five sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Miller of Des Moines, Mrs. Claire McAninch, Mrs. Maude Kreamer, Mrs. Henry Carter, all of Exira, Mrs. Edith Newland of Belle Plaine; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Alice, one infant brother.

Funeral service will be Friday, Aug. 11, at 11 a.m. in the Methodist church at Bonaparte with the Rev. Richard Eis officiating. Burial will be in Bonaparte cemetery with Masonic rites.

The body is at the Car Wilson Home, Bonaparte, Miller's Home for Funerals in Farmington is in charge of arrangements.

**Handwritten: Rec.-Rep. Fri. 11 Aug. 1967

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book J, Page 32, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA