Benjamin Scott MEINTS

MEINTS, BRINTON, CRAWFORD, WATKINS, HILL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/2/2007 at 20:09:01

Mason City Globe Gazette
October 2, 1999

Benjamin Scott Meints, infant son of Rodney and Lisa Meints, of Belmond, died Thursday (Sept. 30, 1999) at the Belmond Community Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at the Trinity Lutheran Church, Belmond, with Pastor Jim Carpenter officiating. Interment will be in the Belmond Cemetery. Visitation was held on Friday at the Tenold Funeral Home, Belmond, and it will resume one hour prior to services today at the church.

Benjamin Scott Meints, the son of Rodney and Lisa (Brinton) Meints, was born on March 22, 1999, at the Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa, in Mason City. He was baptized with his twin brother, Nicholas, on Aug. 22, 1999, at the Trinity Lutheran Church, in Belmond. Ben was a special child who brought a world of joy to his family and friends. He was a precious gift that will be loved and remembered forever.

Those left to cherish his memory are his parents, Rodney and Lisa Meints, of Belmond; a sister, Merissa; three brothers, Austin Meints, Taylor Meints, and his twin brother, Nicholas Meints; grandparents, Homer and Ann Brinton, of Belmond, David and Karen Crawford, of Belmond and Allen and Barb Meints, of Clear Lake; great-grandparents, Harold and Viola Watkins, of Belmond; and many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his great-grandparents, Jack and Ode Meints, Scott and Mabel Brinton, and Morgan Andrew and Anna Hill. Tenold Funeral Home