Larry G. HALFPOP

HALFPOP, OLSON, SMITH, BRUGGEMAN, BLACK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/2/2007 at 16:30:58

Mason City Globe-Gazette
November 27, 1998

BELMOND — Larry G. Halfpop, 39, passed away Wednesday (Nov. 25, 1998) at the Belmond Community Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Belmond-Klemme High School Gymnasium, Belmond, with the Rev. Mark Young officiating. Interment will be in Belmond Cemetery, Belmond. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Dugger Ewing Funeral Home, Belmond and one hour prior to services on Saturday at the Belmond-Klemme High School Gymnasium.

Larry, the son of Lloyd and Marjorie Olson Halfpop, was born on March 3, 1959, in Belmond. Growing up in the Belmond area, he attended Belmond Community Schools and graduated from Belmond High School in 1978. Larry was united in marriage with Patricia Smith on April 4, 1981, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. The couple made their home in Belmond, where Larry worked for Farmer’s Grain, Kinseth Plumbing and Heating and Triggs Manufacturing. He worked for the past nine years at Eaton in Belmond, where he had served on the Eaton Fire Brigade. Larry is remembered as an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting and fishing. He most enjoyed black powder muzzleloader deer hunting and goose hunting. Larry was a past president of the Wright County Marsh Muzzleloader Gun Club and served on the Pheasants Forever committee. He also enjoyed attending buckskinners rendezvous. Larry was a fighter who treasured his wife, Patty and son, Jason. Many are the fond memories of family hunting and fishing trips.

Larry is survived by his wife, Patty; one son, Jason at home; mother, Marjorie, of Belmond; two sisters, Linda Bruggeman and her husband, Wayne, of Belmond; and Marlene Black and her husband, David, of Belmond; one brother, Allen Halfpop and his wife, Rhonda, of Mason City; mother-in-law, Loretta Smith, of Belmond; three brothers-in-law, Mike Smith and his wife, Karen, of Rowan, Brian Smith and his wife, Page, of Kanawha, and Terry Smith and his wife, Susan, of Omaha, Neb.; eight nieces; 12 nephews; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. He is preceded in death by his father, Lloyd in 1994; father-in-law, Don Smith in 1997; and one brother-in-law.