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Roy Burton Hamlin

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Roy Burton Hamlin

Birth
Exira, Audubon County, Iowa, USA
Death
9 Aug 1967 (aged 84)
Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Bonaparte, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Roy B. Hamlin, 84, of Bonaparte died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1967 at 5:20 a.m., in Davis County Hospital, Bloomfield. He had been in failing health for some time and seriously ill five days.
He was born July 9, 1883 in Exira, the son of Nathaniel D. and Elva Crane Hamlin.
On Jan. 5, 1910 at Livermore, he married Ethel Berry, who survives.
A resident of Bonaparte 30 years, he moved here from Fairfield. He was a partner in the Hamlin Brothers Coal Company.
Mr. Hamlin was a member of the Methodist church; a 50 year member of the Bonaparte Lodge AF & AM, and had served a number of years as Rainbow Dad. He held the honorary degree of master of the Grand Cross of Color.
Surviving are four daughters; Mrs. Jack (Ruth) Christy of Bonaparte, Mrs. Robert (Lucille) Baron of South Fort Mitchell, Ky., Mrs. Francis (Areda) Long, and Mrs. Barbara Seely of Des Moines; four brothers, Douglas of Farmington, Robert of Bonaparte, Vernon of Braddyville, Cecil of Chillicothe, Mo.; five sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Miller of Des Moines, Mrs. Claire McAninch, Mrs. Maude Kreamer, Mrs. Henry Carter, all of Exira, Mrs. Edith Newland of Belle Plaine; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Alice, and one infant brother.
Funeral service will be Friday, Aug. 11 at 11 a.m., in the Methodist church at Bonaparte with the Rev. Richard Eis officiating. Burial will be in the Bonaparte cemetery with Masonic rites.
The body is at the Carl Wilson Home, Bonaparte. Miller's Home for Funerals in Farmington is in charge of arrangements.
Roy B. Hamlin, 84, of Bonaparte died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1967 at 5:20 a.m., in Davis County Hospital, Bloomfield. He had been in failing health for some time and seriously ill five days.
He was born July 9, 1883 in Exira, the son of Nathaniel D. and Elva Crane Hamlin.
On Jan. 5, 1910 at Livermore, he married Ethel Berry, who survives.
A resident of Bonaparte 30 years, he moved here from Fairfield. He was a partner in the Hamlin Brothers Coal Company.
Mr. Hamlin was a member of the Methodist church; a 50 year member of the Bonaparte Lodge AF & AM, and had served a number of years as Rainbow Dad. He held the honorary degree of master of the Grand Cross of Color.
Surviving are four daughters; Mrs. Jack (Ruth) Christy of Bonaparte, Mrs. Robert (Lucille) Baron of South Fort Mitchell, Ky., Mrs. Francis (Areda) Long, and Mrs. Barbara Seely of Des Moines; four brothers, Douglas of Farmington, Robert of Bonaparte, Vernon of Braddyville, Cecil of Chillicothe, Mo.; five sisters, Mrs. Evelyn Miller of Des Moines, Mrs. Claire McAninch, Mrs. Maude Kreamer, Mrs. Henry Carter, all of Exira, Mrs. Edith Newland of Belle Plaine; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one daughter, Alice, and one infant brother.
Funeral service will be Friday, Aug. 11 at 11 a.m., in the Methodist church at Bonaparte with the Rev. Richard Eis officiating. Burial will be in the Bonaparte cemetery with Masonic rites.
The body is at the Carl Wilson Home, Bonaparte. Miller's Home for Funerals in Farmington is in charge of arrangements.

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