The New Iberian, April 8, 1976
Last Friday afternoon this editor (Earl Basil Brown) attended the funeral of a life-long friend and neighbor. Charles' post office address was Kaiser, MO. He grew to manhood and lived most of his life in the Elm Springs community; I grew up in the Post Oak School community in Wilcox Bend—both these communities across the Osage River from old Bagnell. Our ages were just months apart, he somewhat older.
We played together, crossed the Osage River on the ferryboat together going to Bagnell town, hunted together and then later in early adulthood—a long separation as he went his way west and I went mine east. Then these last years, occasionally back together again.
As I stood beside his casket in Riverview Baptist Church waiting for the Rev. Mr. George Cox to begin the last words on earth in Charles' behalf, I long remembered and recalled pleasant thoughts.
Now Charles is gone; someday, too, I shall follow.
Obituary:
Charles A. Hawken, 69, of Kaiser died Wednesday at his home. He was born in Miller County on June 24, 1906 to the union of Levi and Annie Williams Hawken. On May 28, 1928 in California, he married Mattie Sinnett, who survives of the home. Mr. Hawken was a lifelong resident of Miller County and a retired farmer.
Preceding Mr. Hawken in death was one daughter, Mrs. Clara Mae Thrasher; one sister, Mrs. Ruth Thompson; and one brother, Johnnie Hawken.
Survivors include his wife, Mattie; three sons, Fenn and Bill Hawken both of Lake Ozark and Robert of Glendale, Arizona; one daughter, Mrs. Annie Marie Ransdell, Lake Ozark; four sisters, Mrs. Hattie Birdsong, Ulman, Mrs. Ruby Shields, Jefferson City, Mrs. Ida Wilson, Jefferson City and Mrs. Leah Whitsel of Marion, Ky., and twelve grandchildren and a host of friends and neighbors.
Last Friday afternoon this editor (Earl Basil Brown) attended the funeral of a life-long friend and neighbor. Charles' post office address was Kaiser, MO. He grew to manhood and lived most of his life in the Elm Springs community; I grew up in the Post Oak School community in Wilcox Bend—both these communities across the Osage River from old Bagnell. Our ages were just months apart, he somewhat older.
We played together, crossed the Osage River on the ferryboat together going to Bagnell town, hunted together and then later in early adulthood—a long separation as he went his way west and I went mine east. Then these last years, occasionally back together again.
As I stood beside his casket in Riverview Baptist Church waiting for the Rev. Mr. George Cox to begin the last words on earth in Charles' behalf, I long remembered and recalled pleasant thoughts.
Now Charles is gone; someday, too, I shall follow.
Obituary:
Charles A. Hawken, 69, of Kaiser died Wednesday at his home. He was born in Miller County on June 24, 1906 to the union of Levi and Annie Williams Hawken. On May 28, 1928 in California, he married Mattie Sinnett, who survives of the home. Mr. Hawken was a lifelong resident of Miller County and a retired farmer.
Preceding Mr. Hawken in death was one daughter, Mrs. Clara Mae Thrasher; one sister, Mrs. Ruth Thompson; and one brother, Johnnie Hawken.
Survivors include his wife, Mattie; three sons, Fenn and Bill Hawken both of Lake Ozark and Robert of Glendale, Arizona; one daughter, Mrs. Annie Marie Ransdell, Lake Ozark; four sisters, Mrs. Hattie Birdsong, Ulman, Mrs. Ruby Shields, Jefferson City, Mrs. Ida Wilson, Jefferson City and Mrs. Leah Whitsel of Marion, Ky., and twelve grandchildren and a host of friends and neighbors.
The New Iberian, April 8, 1976
Last Friday afternoon this editor (Earl Basil Brown) attended the funeral of a life-long friend and neighbor. Charles' post office address was Kaiser, MO. He grew to manhood and lived most of his life in the Elm Springs community; I grew up in the Post Oak School community in Wilcox Bend—both these communities across the Osage River from old Bagnell. Our ages were just months apart, he somewhat older.
We played together, crossed the Osage River on the ferryboat together going to Bagnell town, hunted together and then later in early adulthood—a long separation as he went his way west and I went mine east. Then these last years, occasionally back together again.
As I stood beside his casket in Riverview Baptist Church waiting for the Rev. Mr. George Cox to begin the last words on earth in Charles' behalf, I long remembered and recalled pleasant thoughts.
Now Charles is gone; someday, too, I shall follow.
Obituary:
Charles A. Hawken, 69, of Kaiser died Wednesday at his home. He was born in Miller County on June 24, 1906 to the union of Levi and Annie Williams Hawken. On May 28, 1928 in California, he married Mattie Sinnett, who survives of the home. Mr. Hawken was a lifelong resident of Miller County and a retired farmer.
Preceding Mr. Hawken in death was one daughter, Mrs. Clara Mae Thrasher; one sister, Mrs. Ruth Thompson; and one brother, Johnnie Hawken.
Survivors include his wife, Mattie; three sons, Fenn and Bill Hawken both of Lake Ozark and Robert of Glendale, Arizona; one daughter, Mrs. Annie Marie Ransdell, Lake Ozark; four sisters, Mrs. Hattie Birdsong, Ulman, Mrs. Ruby Shields, Jefferson City, Mrs. Ida Wilson, Jefferson City and Mrs. Leah Whitsel of Marion, Ky., and twelve grandchildren and a host of friends and neighbors.
Last Friday afternoon this editor (Earl Basil Brown) attended the funeral of a life-long friend and neighbor. Charles' post office address was Kaiser, MO. He grew to manhood and lived most of his life in the Elm Springs community; I grew up in the Post Oak School community in Wilcox Bend—both these communities across the Osage River from old Bagnell. Our ages were just months apart, he somewhat older.
We played together, crossed the Osage River on the ferryboat together going to Bagnell town, hunted together and then later in early adulthood—a long separation as he went his way west and I went mine east. Then these last years, occasionally back together again.
As I stood beside his casket in Riverview Baptist Church waiting for the Rev. Mr. George Cox to begin the last words on earth in Charles' behalf, I long remembered and recalled pleasant thoughts.
Now Charles is gone; someday, too, I shall follow.
Obituary:
Charles A. Hawken, 69, of Kaiser died Wednesday at his home. He was born in Miller County on June 24, 1906 to the union of Levi and Annie Williams Hawken. On May 28, 1928 in California, he married Mattie Sinnett, who survives of the home. Mr. Hawken was a lifelong resident of Miller County and a retired farmer.
Preceding Mr. Hawken in death was one daughter, Mrs. Clara Mae Thrasher; one sister, Mrs. Ruth Thompson; and one brother, Johnnie Hawken.
Survivors include his wife, Mattie; three sons, Fenn and Bill Hawken both of Lake Ozark and Robert of Glendale, Arizona; one daughter, Mrs. Annie Marie Ransdell, Lake Ozark; four sisters, Mrs. Hattie Birdsong, Ulman, Mrs. Ruby Shields, Jefferson City, Mrs. Ida Wilson, Jefferson City and Mrs. Leah Whitsel of Marion, Ky., and twelve grandchildren and a host of friends and neighbors.
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