Hawley, Seymour 1890-1957

HAWLEY, SARGENT, COWAN, POHLMAN, DUBBERT, TUTTLE WILSON, ROEWE

Posted By: Janet Schuldt, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/16/2015 at 18:59:18

Laurens Sun, Laurens, Iowa June 6 1957

Seymour Hawley, 67, Dies at Farm Home South of Laurens

Seymour Hawley, 67, a lifelong, resident of the Laurens community died Monday evening at the Hawley farm south of Laurens.

Funeral services were done yesterday (Wednesday), a memorial service at 11 a.m. at the home and final rites at 2 p.m. at the Laurens Methodist Church. The Rev. R. P. Phillips of Laurens and the Rev. A. A. Howe of Havelock officiated. Music was by a mixed quartet composed of Mrs. Fred Forsythe, Mrs. Matt Shankland, Russell Thumma and E. E. Dubbert. Accompanied by Mrs. Willis Godfrey, they sang "Rock of Ages" and "Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me." Masonic services were conducted at the church.

Pall bearers were Frank Grund of Des Moines, Jerry DeYoung of Ware, Evert Tussing, Darlow Alborn, F. C. Gilchrist Jr. and John Reimers. Burial was in the Laurens cemetery with
Hitchcock Funeral Home in charge.

Born in 1890

Seymour George Hawley, son of George and Mary Hawley, was born March 6, 1890, at Laurens. He was the youngest of a family of 10 children, four boys and six girls. As a boy he attended grade school at Marshall No. 1 and Marshall Center, Laurens grade school and high school. At the age of 13 he left school and started work. He was employed with a ditching crew with Jim Convy, as a carpenter with Sam Bowen, and herding cattle and doing farm work at the home place.

On Dec. 18, 1913, he was united in marriage to Ethel Sargent at New Virginia. They were the parents of eight children. In 1914 they started farming 13/4 miles west of Ware where they resided for 14 years. In 1925 they moved to the Hawley home where they have lived for the past 32 years. Mr. Hawley was in partnership with his brother, Fred K. Hawley, until his brother's death in 1945. This partnership continued with his nephew, Charles F. Hawley, and a niece, Mrs. Martha Hawley Huddleston of New York City.

He was baptized in the Methodist Church in Laurens as a youth, was a member of Grace Lodge, A.F. & A.M., served as committeeman foe the Triple A, and was on the board of directors of the Farmers Cooperative Elevator Company.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Harriet (Mrs. Horace) Cowan and Celona (Mrs. Alec) Taylor; a brother, Fred K. Hawley; and infant twins, Alice and Alfred.

Survivors include his wife; six children, Jim of Ames, Orville, Florence (Mrs. H. M.) Pohlman, Marilyn (Mrs. Robert) Dubbert, Bob and Ken, all of Laurens; 13 grandchildren; two brothers, Charles of Ephrata, Wash., and Albert of Blue Earth, Minn.; four sisters, Esther (Mrs. George) Tuttle of Remsen, Mrs. Vena Wilson and Sophronia Hawley, both of Milford, Utah, and Mae (Mrs. Fred) Roewe of Laurens; nieces, nephews and other relatives.