Hubert Leroy Larimer

Bedford Times-Press, Thursday, November 22, 1962, p. 5 H. L. Larimer Rites Nov. 11 Services for Hubert L. Larimer, 65, held November 11 in Lenox, were conducted by Rev. Colvin Caughey. He passed away at the nursing home in Villisca on Nov. 9. Burial was in the Lenox cemetery. Hubert LeRoy Larimer, better known as Fat, son of Charles and Gertrude Larimer, was born Oct. 31, 1897 at Russell, Iowa.

On Dec. 19, 1924 he was united in marriage to Thelma Haynes at Lenox, Ia. To this union four sons were born. He leaves his widow Thelma, four sons, Dean of Lenox, Ia., Harold of Bedford, Ia., Milton of Des Moines, Ia., and Jay D. in the Air Force now stationed in the Philippines. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Charles L. Larimer; two brothers, Gerald and Charles A. Larimer of Des Moines; two sisters, Mrs. Bon Gray of Des Moines and Mrs. Ruth Brun of Phoenix, Arizona, ten grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. His father preceded him in death in 1956.

He joined the Baptist Church at Russell, Ia., when a young man.