Dennis Harmon HINDERKS

HINDERKS, KLOOSTER, DENCKLAU, PARSONS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/24/2011 at 09:49:26

January 3, 1926 --- October 30, 2001

Dennis Hinderks, 75, Webster City, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2001 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Clarion. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Trinity Lutheran Church, with Revs. John Grebner and Doug Bullock-Tiffany officiating. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral Home from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday and after 11 a.m. Friday at the church.

Dennis Harmon Hinderks, son of Henry and Jennie Klooster Hinderks, was born January 3, 1926 on a farm north of Kamrar. He attended a rural school in Liberty Township. On Nov. 26, 2916 he married Luella Dencklau at St. John's Lutheran Church, south of Vincent. The couple resided in rural Kamrar. In 1948, the couple moved to Webster City. For several years, he operated a custom corn shelling business in this area. He worked for Webster City Mill and Elevator and Superior 400 Gas Station in Webster City. Mr. Hinderks was a longtime farmer in Hamilton and Webster Counties. In 1975, the couple moved north of Webster City. He was employed as a seed salesman for Moews and Kruger.

Mr. Hinderks is survived by his wife, Luella; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Leah Hinderks of Webster City; grandchildren, Wade Hinderks of Boone, Nicole Parsons of Ames, Jay Hinderks of Stayton, Ore.; brothers, Leo Hinderks, Webster City, Merrill Hinderks of Jewell, Eldon Hinderks of Woolstock and sister-in-law, Karen Hinderks of Webster City; several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a son, Dennis Edmund Hinderks; his parents, sister, Doris Hinderks; brothers, Arvin and Kenneth Hinderks, and a brother in infancy.

He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and the North Iowa Antique Tractor Club. He loved farming, fishing and trips to Branson, Mo. He always had time for people, made friends out of strangers and was always there to help friends when needed. His pride and joy was his Minneapolis U tractor which he often drove in parades.

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa
November 2001