George M. Hart

GEORGE HART MUSCATINE, Iowa - George M. Hart, 73, of 2920 Mulberry Ave., died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2002, at his home. Services will be 11 a.m. on Monday, March 4, 2002, at the Wesley United Methodist Church. Dr. Hal Green will officiate. Pallbearers will be Jack Garbutt, Carl Hayden, Henry Kathrein, Jerry Boulund, Joe Clarke, Bill Kearney, and Chris Zogg. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 3, 2002, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the George Hart Memorial Scholarship for Muscatine High School Athletics. . Mr. Hart was born on June 17, 1928, in New Mexico, the son of George and Clara Marsh Hart. He married Ann Denton on July 21, 1951 in Raton, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1950, where he had been a track star competing in hurdles and javelin. He also played football and basketball. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, 33 Club, SCORE, a member of the Institute of Food Technologists, The Masters Brewers Association, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The ...[more]

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rican Association of Cereal Chemists. He served as a board member and President of the Musser Public Library Board of Trustees and he volunteered as the starter for Muscatine High School Track meets for many years. He was a US Army veteran serving in biological warfare. He retired from Grain Processing in 1990, where he was a market analyst and in technical sales. He loved his family, his wife, daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. He loved going to his granddaughters' athletic events and loved to joke with his grandson and call him a rascal. He enjoyed his hundreds of books, his opera tapes and had a wonderful sense of humor. Survivors include his wife, Ann Hart, of Muscatine; three daughters, Dr. Holly Hart of Iowa City, Melissa Goldman and her husband Dr. Stephen Goldman, of Essexville, MI, and Mary Shihadeh and her husband Osama Shihadeh, of Muscatine; and three grandchildren, Kati and Nicole Shihadeh and Hart Goldman. He was preceded in death by his parents, and a sister.