Earl E. HINMAN

HINMAN, LANDON, ETCHEN, GOLDBERG

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/18/2008 at 09:38:22

Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa
October 12, 1995

Earl E. Hinman, 77, of Belmond, died Tuesday (Oct. 10, 1995) at the Belmond Health Care Center. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday at the United Church of Christ Congregational in Belmond, with the Rev. Laurence Garrett officiating. Burial will be in the Belmond Cemetery. Visitation will begin 2 p.m. today at the Tenold Funeral Home, Belmond, and from 9 a.m. until service time at the church.

Earl was born Aug. 23, 1918, on the farm that he farmed and lived on until the past two years. He was the third generation to live on the Hinman Century Farm. He was a meticulous farmer and a perfectionist in his woodworking hobby of building walnut clocks, furniture, inlaid tables, knick knack shelves and various other projects which were enjoyed by a host of friends and family. A special project of Earl's was making oak crosses which were given to over 300 families as an expression of his Christian faith. He was a faithful member of the United Church (Congregational) in Belmond and was a lifetime member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge. He enjoyed the sociability of card games, fishing, and traveling. He enjoyed his many friends. He graduated from Belmond High School in 1936, and was married to Helen Landon on April 19, 1942, in the Congregational Church, the same church in which he was baptized.

He is survived by his wife, Helen; his daughter, Lynda Etchen and her husband, Delbert of Belmond; his daughter-in-law, Kathy Goldberg of Chicago; six grandchildren; two brothers; and three sisters. He was preceded in death by his son, Dwight Hinman, killed in Vietnam; his parents; one brother; and one sister.