Hawkins, Harry S. 1899-1978

HAWKINS, BOOM, KING

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/28/2012 at 17:24:39

Well Known Farmer Harry Hawkins Dead

Harry S. Hawkins, 78, LeMars, a Plymouth county native and longtime Le Mars area resident, died Thursday (Feb. 2, 1978) at Floyd Valley hospital in Le Mars after a lengthy illness. He had been at the hospital for two weeks.

Mr. Hawkins was a retired farmer and lived in Plymouth county with the exception of five years in Woodbury county.

Harry Samuel Hawkins was born Aug. 23, 1899, near Kingsley to George and Hanna Boom Hawkins. He married Elva Lois King. They attended the Adaville United Methodist church.

His family moved to Western Plymouth county when he was 7 and he lived there until 1938 when he moved to Grant township which has since been his home. Harry was an ambitious and successful farmer, livestock raiser and feeder and was active in field work until May 1977 when he became disabled. But he was very much interested in the work on the farm and he was never ready to retire.

Mr. Hawkins was a member of the Adaville church since 1920 and served many years on the church board of trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1972.

Mr. Hawkins was preceded in death by his parents, two grandsons, Timothy in 1959 and Joel in 1971, and a daughter-in-law, Harriet Hawkins, in 1975.

Funeral services will be Monday, Feb. 6, at 1:30 p.m. at Adaville United Methodist Church with Rev. J. Milton Kinney officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens under the direction of the Mauer funeral home.

Survivors are his wife, Elva, of Le Mars; four sons, Duane of Wakonda, S.D.; Royal of Minneapolis; Norris of Le Mars and Lorvan of Ireton; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Lela Bride of Sumner, Wash. and Hazel Benton, Cedar Falls and a brother, George Hawkins, of Le Mars.