CALDWELL — Services for George Washington Hankins, 80, of 824 W. Ash, who died Monday at a Caldwell hospital, will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel.
The Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Homedale Friends Church will officiate. Interment will be at the Wilder Cemetery.
Mr. Hankins was born April 24, 1891, in Lawrence County, Mo., a son of John W. and Ellen Elizabeth Cameron Hankins. He was reared and educated in Lawrence County and married Effie M. Berry on July 2, 1911, in Mount Vernon, Mo. They lived there three years and moved to North Platte Valley, Neb., where he was a teamster and farmed at Scottsbluff. He was a heavy equipment operator on the Gering-Fort Laramie Irrigation District from 1930 to 1936, when the couple moved to Homedale. He farmed until 1958, when they moved to Caldwell. The couple observed their 60th wedding anniversary last July.
He was a member of the Pleasant Ridge Grange and a former member of the Stateline Grange.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Hankins are a son, George E. Hankins of Caldwell; three daughters, Mrs. Grace Carlson of Scottsbluff, Mrs. Gwen Finger of Nyssa and Elaine Dowty of Eugene, Ore.; a brother, Clarence Hankins of Halltown, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Gardner and Mrs. Ida Garringer, both of Mount Vernon, Mo.; 17 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister.
Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune, Thursday, October 21, 1971 — 2
The Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Homedale Friends Church will officiate. Interment will be at the Wilder Cemetery.
Mr. Hankins was born April 24, 1891, in Lawrence County, Mo., a son of John W. and Ellen Elizabeth Cameron Hankins. He was reared and educated in Lawrence County and married Effie M. Berry on July 2, 1911, in Mount Vernon, Mo. They lived there three years and moved to North Platte Valley, Neb., where he was a teamster and farmed at Scottsbluff. He was a heavy equipment operator on the Gering-Fort Laramie Irrigation District from 1930 to 1936, when the couple moved to Homedale. He farmed until 1958, when they moved to Caldwell. The couple observed their 60th wedding anniversary last July.
He was a member of the Pleasant Ridge Grange and a former member of the Stateline Grange.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Hankins are a son, George E. Hankins of Caldwell; three daughters, Mrs. Grace Carlson of Scottsbluff, Mrs. Gwen Finger of Nyssa and Elaine Dowty of Eugene, Ore.; a brother, Clarence Hankins of Halltown, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Gardner and Mrs. Ida Garringer, both of Mount Vernon, Mo.; 17 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister.
Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune, Thursday, October 21, 1971 — 2
CALDWELL — Services for George Washington Hankins, 80, of 824 W. Ash, who died Monday at a Caldwell hospital, will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel.
The Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Homedale Friends Church will officiate. Interment will be at the Wilder Cemetery.
Mr. Hankins was born April 24, 1891, in Lawrence County, Mo., a son of John W. and Ellen Elizabeth Cameron Hankins. He was reared and educated in Lawrence County and married Effie M. Berry on July 2, 1911, in Mount Vernon, Mo. They lived there three years and moved to North Platte Valley, Neb., where he was a teamster and farmed at Scottsbluff. He was a heavy equipment operator on the Gering-Fort Laramie Irrigation District from 1930 to 1936, when the couple moved to Homedale. He farmed until 1958, when they moved to Caldwell. The couple observed their 60th wedding anniversary last July.
He was a member of the Pleasant Ridge Grange and a former member of the Stateline Grange.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Hankins are a son, George E. Hankins of Caldwell; three daughters, Mrs. Grace Carlson of Scottsbluff, Mrs. Gwen Finger of Nyssa and Elaine Dowty of Eugene, Ore.; a brother, Clarence Hankins of Halltown, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Gardner and Mrs. Ida Garringer, both of Mount Vernon, Mo.; 17 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister.
Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune, Thursday, October 21, 1971 — 2
The Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Homedale Friends Church will officiate. Interment will be at the Wilder Cemetery.
Mr. Hankins was born April 24, 1891, in Lawrence County, Mo., a son of John W. and Ellen Elizabeth Cameron Hankins. He was reared and educated in Lawrence County and married Effie M. Berry on July 2, 1911, in Mount Vernon, Mo. They lived there three years and moved to North Platte Valley, Neb., where he was a teamster and farmed at Scottsbluff. He was a heavy equipment operator on the Gering-Fort Laramie Irrigation District from 1930 to 1936, when the couple moved to Homedale. He farmed until 1958, when they moved to Caldwell. The couple observed their 60th wedding anniversary last July.
He was a member of the Pleasant Ridge Grange and a former member of the Stateline Grange.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Hankins are a son, George E. Hankins of Caldwell; three daughters, Mrs. Grace Carlson of Scottsbluff, Mrs. Gwen Finger of Nyssa and Elaine Dowty of Eugene, Ore.; a brother, Clarence Hankins of Halltown, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Gardner and Mrs. Ida Garringer, both of Mount Vernon, Mo.; 17 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister.
Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune, Thursday, October 21, 1971 — 2
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