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Show C. M. Hickman Is Buried In Home Town In Iowa """Mr!-Laura Egan returned to Delta Monday from Mt.Ayr, Iowa, where she had accompanied the body of Charles M. Hickman for burial. Mr. Hickman died at the Egan home in Delta March ,2 , and services were held March 29 in the Commuity church by Rev. Charles H. Hamilton of Richfield. He was nearing 90 years when he died and had lived here since 1910 farming at Abraham until 6 years agFuneral services were held Friday Fri-day afternoon at the Mt. Ayr funeral fun-eral home, by Rev. Moore, followed follow-ed by burial in Rose Hill cemetery. All of Mr. Hickman's family are buried there, his wife and son and daughter, and his parents. Attending the services were two nephews of Mr. Hickman, Maurice and Joe Keating, of Rockford, Illinois, Ill-inois, sons of Mr. Hickman's late sister. Two other nephews, one in California and one in Washington, were unable to attend but sent flowers. Living in Mt. Ayr are also two nephews and a niece of Mrs. Hickman, and they were at the service. One nephew, Rollo Fry, who farms there, and his wife, had Mrs. Egan as their house guest for two days while she was there. Members of the family took Mrs. Egan sightseeing around town and that part of the country, and she says the building is still there where Mr. Hickman had his mercantile mer-cantile business before moving to Utah. |