Obituaries

GENE HASKIN

 

Funeral services for Gene Haskin, 76, of Aurelia, will be 10:30 A.M. Friday, May 6, 2005, at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Jack Weida officiating.  Burial will be at 3:00 P.M. in the North Lawn Memory Garden Cemetery in Iowa Falls, Iowa, with Pastor Bruce Rapp officiating.  Visitation will be Thursday from 3:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia. 

Gene died Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at his home in Aurelia.

Gene Roderick Haskin was born February 4, 1929, in Estherville, Iowa the son of Walter and Faye (Goodwin) Haskin.  He attended school in Gruver, Ackley, and Whitten, graduating from Whitten High School in 1946.  On August 5, 1951 Gene married Shirley Jean Lord in Whitten.  Gene farmed until his health prevented it.  In 1967 he went to work in the office equipment business.  He retired after 20 years of employment as service manager at Iowa Office Supply in Storm Lake.

Gene was an active member of the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, Kiwanis and Knights of Pythias.   He enjoyed fishing, woodworking, painting, building and flying radio controlled airplanes, general repair and lawn work.  Gene and Shirley enjoyed traveling after his retirement, covering much of the country, but were partial to Texas and fishing there.

Preceding Gene in death were his parents, his wife Shirley on January 9, 2002, and two brothers, Morris and Don Haskin.

Survivors include two daughters, Denise and her husband Dale Isackson, and Jill Haskin, one grandson, Gabriel Isackson, three granddaughters, Samantha and her husband Matthew McMillian and Hannah Isackson all of Springfield, Missouri, and Sarah Tietgen of Cedar Falls, Iowa, three great-grandchildren, Cole, Madison, and Simon McMillian, one sister-in-law, Kaye Haskin of Eldora, IA, nieces and nephews, and other relatives and friends.