Byron Hunter Hafner

Byron Hafner Services: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, Stacy-Lewis Home for Funeral and Cremation Services, Columbus Junction. Visitation: 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, funeral home. LETTS, Iowa -- Byron Hunter Hafner, 95, Letts, died Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006, at Colonial Manor, Columbus Junction. The Rev. Kimberly Bowles will officiate. Casket bearers are Don Hafner, David Crull, Dan Hafner, Michael Hafner and Roger Hafner. Honorary casket bearers are Larry Hafner, Kathleen Muller, Carol Iles, Linda Vogel, Lori Wolfe, Melissa Masteller, Joni Herson, Mark Masteller, Ann Urie, Susan Carlson, Amy Goodson and Cara Golden. Burial will be at Letts Cemetery. After the services, a time of food and fellowship will be held at Letts United Methodist Church. Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Washington County, Louisa County Responders and Letts United Methodist Church. Mr. Hafner was born April 21, 1911, in Muscatine County near Cranston, the son of H. Lester and Ola Etta Warthman Hafner. He married Mollie Eugenia Crow in August 1930 in Lone Tree. He attended schools in Cranston, Cotter and Letts elementary schools and graduated from Letts High School in 1929, continuing ...[more]

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education at the University of Iowa. He was a member of Letts United Methodist Church and a life long farmer of the Letts area. He served as a Letts school bus driver and school board member for several years, the Louisa County assessor and ASCS committee member. He also helped organize and coach Louisa County boys and girls 4-H softball teams. He was a recognized and respected area and state champion of the game of horseshoes and belonged to both state and national associations. He was an inductee of the Iowa Horseshoe Hall of Fame. He also enjoyed watching and attending sports events, family gatherings, music, reading books and meeting with his McDonald's morning coffee friends. Survivors include two sons, B. Eugene Hafner and wife Mary of Wapello and James T. Hafner and wife Sandra of Sperry; five daughters, Z. Joyce Crull of Letts, Gae Ellen Crisman and husband Burton of Grand Junction, Colo., Marianna Masteller and husband Edwin of Erie, Pa., Marjorie Golden and husband James of Grand Junction and Gloria Newell of Columbus Junction; 17 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Hetzler of Muscatine; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; two brothers, Harry Hafner and Dale Hafner; a sister, Adelia Klipstein; a granddaughter, Julie Masteller; and two sons-in-law, Fay Crull and Russell Newell.