HORNBAKER, Phil S.: Died 1983

HORNBAKER, TRIMBLE, AGNEW, OVERSTREET

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 10/20/2021 at 09:47:59

**Handwritten: V.B. Leader 3 Mar 1983

PHIL S. HORNBAKER

Phil S. Hornbaker, son of David and Ida Belle Trimble Hornbaker, was born near Bonaparte, January 19, 1900. He spent his life farming in the community where he was born. His death occurred Tuesday, February 22, 1983, at Van Buren County Memorial Hospital in Keosauqua, at the age of 83.

He attended the Bonaparte Public School, graduating wit the class of 1918. On August 25, 1923, he married Mary Agnew.

Phil was a long-time member of the Bonaparte United Methodist Church, a 60-year member of Bonaparte Lodge No. 73, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and Sargeant-Osweiler Post No. 563, American Legion at Bonaparte.

He was preceded in death by a son, Dean, in March, 1980.

Surviving are his wife, Mary; a son, Robert of Los Angeles, California; a daughter, Norma of Scottsdale, Arizona; a daughter-in-law, Sherry Overstreet of Bonaparte; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Just Away
I cannot say and I will not say
That he is dead - He is just away.
With a cheery smile and a wave of a hand
He has wandered into an unknown land.
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be since he lingers there.
And you, O you who the wildest yearn
For the old time step and the glad return.
Think of him faring on, as dear in the love of
there as the love of here.
Think of him still as the same, I say:
He is not dead - He is just away!

Funeral services were held Friday, February 25, 1983, at 11 a.m. at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua with Rev. James Rozendaal officiating. Interment with Masonic rites was in Thompson Cemetery southwest of Bonaparte. A memorial was established for the cemetery.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 127,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA