Saturday, April 16, 2016

Boone Connected Deaths

     Its been a tough week for the BHS class of '53, the Kornerman's class. We've lost two of our classmates in recent days. That means 49 of our class members are now deceased.
     BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Charlie Hancock, 80, Omaha. Formerly of Fort Dodge. BHS-53. Was a state champion runner. Won the 800 meter event. Spent some early years in Chicago but moved to Fort Dodge in 1963 where he co-owned and operated Carney and Hancock railroad salvage. He also owned Charles Brown men's clothing stores in Fort Dodge and Spencer. Moved to Omaha in 2015. His wife, the former Janese Carney of Boone, survives. Charlie's dad, the late Garland Hancock, was a former Boone Mayor............Clinton Elliott, 81, Boone. BHS-53. Worked at Fareway for over 20 years. Boone area survivors include his sons, Craig and Dennis, daughters, Coleen Jones and Eileen Degner, and brothers and sisters-in-law, Maurice Phipps, Phyliss Lindahl, Howard Williams and Ida Williams, all of Boone and his brother, Clifford Elliott, of Logansport..........Ernestine Safly, 104, Boone area..........Roger Dee, 80, Boone..........M. Anita Leininger (Glasgow), 89, Lincoln, NE (?). Married Dr. Lester Leininger in Boone in 1946. The couple moved to Utah in 1946. Anita was a teacher..........Charles Lanam, 81, Marshalltown Veterans Home..........Gwynneth Stumpenhorst, 89, Ogallala, NE. BHS-44. Born in Boone. Parents were M.J. and Ferne Heldt. Lived in Ogden until 1943 when moved to Boone. Gwynneth and husband, Charles, farmed until 1953 when the couple moved to Colorado. Boone area survivors include her brother, Edmund Heldt, and brother-in-law, Marvin Stumpenhorst, both of Boone, sister-in-law, Eldora Heineman, and brother-in-law, Dean Youngren, both of Ogden..........Grace Parkinson Piersma, 70, Zeeland, MI. BHS-63. Born in Boone. Was a banker. No Boone area survivors. Her sister,  Nancy Parkinson Ford, the wife of Larry Ford, is among the survivors. Nancy and Larry are Boone natives.
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