Representative Herbert C. Hinkhouse View All Years

HERBERT C. HINKHOUSE

Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Herbert C. Hinkhouse begs to submit the following Memorial:

Herbert C. Hinkhouse was born May 11, 1917, in West Liberty, Iowa. He was the son of Fredrick W. and Clara Pearson Hinkhouse. He married Doris Guthrie in 1941.

Mr. Hinkhouse graduated from Springdale High School in 1935 and attended Iowa State University for two years. Mr. Hinkhouse was a veteran of WWII serving with the Corps of Engineers where he received the Bronze Star. Herb and his wife farmed in Springdale and West Branch for many years.

Herb was a life-long member of the West Branch Friends Church. He also was a member of the Cedar County Farm Bureau, and had served on both the West Branch School Board and West Branch State Bank Board of Directors. He belonged to various Cattleman’s Associations and received the Iowa “Master Farmer” Award.

A Democrat, Mr. Hinkhouse was a member of the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth General Assemblies.

Herbert C. Hinkhouse died on February 27, 2000, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City following an extended illness. Survivors include his wife, Doris Hinkhouse; four sons, Richard and Glenn, both of West Branch, Cliff and Stanley, both of West Liberty; a daughter, Hilda M. Bowers of West Branch; a sister, Helen Simmons of Iowa City, and eight grandchildren.

Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-eighth General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Herbert C. Hinkhouse, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this Resolution would express its appreciation of his service.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

DAN BODDICKER

MINNETTE DODERER

DAVID JOHNSON

Committee