Agnes Mae (Burke) Hinman
- January 12, 2025
Agnes Mae (Burke) Hinman
Dubuque
Agnes Mae (Burke) Hinman passed November 24, 2024, from this life to enter the world of her savior and to join her husband, sister, parents, and many family members who had passed before her. Visitation will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at Marion Methodist Church, with a Celebration of Life beginning at 2 p.m. Burial will follow at Oak Shade Cemetery in Marion.
Agnes was born to Hazel (Baskerville) and William Burke on Mother’s Day, May 12, 1929. She grew up on the family farm near Earlville, Iowa, in an active household with one older sister, four older brothers (causing much of the drama), and one younger brother. At the age of two, she became so ill, she lost the ability to walk. Her siblings then lived with their grandparents while her mother focused on getting little Agnes better and walking again. She attended Earlville school, Kindergarten through graduation. During much of the winter during her Kindergarten year, she lived with her grandparents, Walter and Nellie (Ede) Baskerville, in town so she wouldn’t be riding in the buckboard. While attending Earlville High School, she played on the girls 6 on 6 basketball team. Agnes was active in the Earlville Methodist church through her youth.
Agnes snapped off an entire roll of film of the handsome driver of the tractor on a Christian Delaware County Youth Group hayride. This flirting paid off when she married the driver, James Hinman on August 8, 1953. They married in the Methodist church in Earlville. James had been drafted into the army and had to go AWOL (on a town pass in Fort Sill, Oklahoma) to get to their wedding. The couple quickly returned to Oklahoma the day after their wedding (without Jim getting caught for going AWOL) and settled into their first home in married housing on the Fort Sill Army base. Once out of the military, they lived in a mobile home relocating to places across the central, northeast, south, and northwest United States as dictated by Jim’s job as a government contractor. Traveling between places involved Jim driving a semi pulling the mobile home and Agnes driving the station wagon pulling the boat. Fourteen years into their marriage they designed and built a home northeast of Marion, Iowa, where they settled themselves and their five children. They raised their children, Jim, Connie, Carol, and the twins, Dianna and David in this home. James and Agnes lived in this home for 43 years, before moving to a new, smaller home ½ mile south.
Agnes worked as a teacher’s aide in Linn-Mar’s Novak upper elementary school for 23 years. She spent her summers off caring for her children, gardening, and canning the fruits of the garden for the rest of the year. She raised her children to be independent, creative, and resilient, all things she thought she was not (but she was!). An avid reader herself, she taught her children to enjoy reading. She did her best to read through the entire Marion Public Library’s fiction section during her retirement, having maintained a list of the books she had read the last 26 years of her life (totaling 2,451 books). She and her husband were actively involved in the Marion Methodist church through their lives. Agnes taught Sunday School, ran the church nursery, fulfilled various roles in the daily functioning of the church, participated in multiple bible studies, and folded church bulletins the first 22 years of her retirement. Agnes continued to maintain a daily devotional (The Upper Room) throughout her life, with her children reading them for her during her last few days.
During retirement, Agnes enjoyed traveling south during the winters with her husband to visit family, especially her sister, Amy, with whom she enjoyed a close relationship. She was excited at the birth of each of her nine grandchildren and enjoyed visiting with them every chance she got. She was equally excited at the birth of each of her nine great-grandchildren and enjoyed meeting and playing with them.
Agnes celebrated her 95th birthday on Mother’s Day 2024.
Agnes was preceded in death by her husband, James Hinman; her parents, William and Hazel Burke; and all of her siblings, Loren (Velma) Burke, Amy (Chester) Sams, Bud (Dee) Burke, Bob (Mildred) Burke, and Don (Evelyn) Burke; and two daughters-in-law, Lesley Hinman and Wendy Hinman. She is lovingly remembered by her children, Jim (Pat) Hinman, Connie (Steve) King, Carol Hinman, Dianna (Brad) Heddinger, and David Hinman; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and many extended family, including a niece who was very special to her, Judith Grimshaw.
In lieu of flowers, offerings can be made in Agnes’ name to The Upper Room Daily Devotional, any of their programs.
Please share a memory of Agnes at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.
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