Harold A. Hain

Harold A. Hain Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2009, at the St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wapello. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Wapello. WAPELLO, Iowa - Harold A. Hain, 88, of Wapello, passed away Sunday, August 2, 2009, Wapello Nursing and Rehab Center. Casketbearers will be former FFA members, Bill Small, Randy Hoeg, Tim Robbins, Gary Spitznogle, Joe Truitt and son, Tom Hain. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery with full military rites by the combined units of the V.F. W Post No. 1565 and the American Legion Post No. 27. Following the interment a time of food and fellowship will be held at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Community Room. Memorials may be made to the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Wapello or the Great River Hospice in his memory. Online condolences may be left at www.lewisfuneralhomes.com. Harold was born on January 7, 1921, in Moscow, the son of Elwood and Pearl Kaufman Hain. He graduated from Wilton High School in 1943 and Iowa State University in 1952. He served his country in the U.S. Navy...[more]

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board am LST during World War II at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He married Betty Jane Flake on November 28, 1948, at Zion Lutheran Church, Muscatine. He was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran Church and Kiwanis. He was an FFA advisor and taught vocational agriculture for 25 years in Waterloo and Wapello. He had taken the FFA boys on many summer trips over the years. He also spearheaded the campaign and was instrumental in the design and construction of the Trades Lab at Wapello High School. He served for many years as a yield verifier for Iowa State Extension and was a judge at the Louisa County Fair. He enjoyed meeting the farmers who grew top yields. He will be deeply missed by his wife, Betty Hain of Wapello; his children, Nancy Edmisson and husband, Jack, of Danville; Tom Hain and wife, Ursula, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Julie Scholle and husband, Kurt, of Batavia, Illinois, and Robert Hain of Kansas City, Missouri; his first grandchild, Melissa and husband, Brian, and seven other grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a brother, Russell Hain and wife, Betty of Austin, Texas; and a sister, Betty Kleindolph and husband, Neal, of Muscatine. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Paul Hain.