Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, June 12, 167, in the Watt Funeral Home Chapel in Moline, Kansas for Charles Wesley Hainlin, 80, of Moline, Kansas. He died Friday, June 9, 1967, in the Newton Memorial Hospital of Winfield, Kansas where he had been a patient for two weeks.
Mr. Hainlin was born March 10, 1887 at Longton, Kansas, the son of Fredrick and Julia (Tice) Hainlin. He married Octa Lee Higginbotham at Howard, Kansas on February 20, 1918. He was employed in the maintenance department of the Union Gas System until his retirement in 1952. Mr. Hainlin was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Order of Eastern Star, the American Legion, Lions Club, and Methodist Church, all of Moline, Kansas. He married Octa Higginbotham at Howard, Kansas on February 20, 1918.
He is survived by his widow, of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Joan Durbin of Moline, Kansas and Mrs. Bonnie Bynum of Independence, Kansas; one brother, Fred of Sullivan, Missouri; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Rev. Miles Stotts, pastor of the Moline Methodist Church, officiated. Burial was in the Moline Cemetery.
(published in the Elk County Reporter, 6/15/1967)