IRVIN KLINGAMAN FAMILY HISTORY
Irvin Neal Klingaman was born on October 20, 1926, six miles west and one mile south of Winterset, in Webster Township, where he still resides. He was the youngest of seven children of Charles Curtis ("Curt") and Mary Klingaman. Irvin attended Happy Hollow Country School and was a member of Oak Grove Church by the Roseman Covered Bridge. He graduated from Winterset High.
Barbara Graichen, born in Amana, Iowa, on July 2, 1928, came to Winterset to teach junior high language arts in 1950. She and Irvin were married in August 1953. Barbara had attended Amana schools and earned her B.A. degree from what was then Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls.
Two children were born to this family, Mary Ellen, in March 1961, and Kenneth Irvin, in December 1962. Mary was a 4-H member, active in athletics, especially track, and graduated from Winterset High in 1979. She attended Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, and is currently an art major at the University of Illinois in Champagne. Kenneth graduated from Winterset High in 1981, having represented the school in math contests and as a FFA delegate to the National Convention in Kansas City. He attended Iowa State University and is now engaged in a livestock-crop farming operation with his father. Both young people joined the First United Methodist Church in Winterset.
Irvin has been active on farm-related boards, such as Pork Producers, Farm Bureau, Farmers Coop, and M&W Farm Service, and as an ASC committeeman. Barbara is a homemaker, does volunteer work, and belongs to Women's Club.
Irvin's mother was the former Mary Huffman. She was born northwest of Guthrie Center on December 20, 1882, to George and Mary (Hutchinson) Huffman. Due to the death of her mother soon after her birth, Mary came to Madison County to live with her grandparents, John and Amanda Huffman. They farmed in Scott Township. Around age five Mary rejoined her father and stepmother in Webster Township, where they now farmed, and attended Happy Hollow School. She later had several step-siblings: Esther, Amanda, Everett, and Walker.
Charles Curtis Klingaman moved to Madison County as a youth of seventeen. He was born in Linn County in October 1883, near the town of Troy Mills. With his parents and brothers, Elgin and Henry, and sisters, Grace and May, he came to farm southwest of Winterset. One blizzardy day the house caught fire and burned to the ground. The family lived in a shed the rest of that winter, re-building in the spring.
In 1904 Mary Huffman and Curt Klingaman were married and settled in Webster Township, Section 1. They were the parents of Esther, Joseph, Emory, George, Ora, Ethel, and Irvin. Irvin recalls stories his father told of how he and his neighbors used to scoop snow to unblock roads. Charles Klingaman died in January 1951, and Mary in September 1974.
info from: Madison County Genealogical Society, History of Madison County, (published 1984), p215.
Contributor: K Haymond
Irvin Neal Klingaman was born on October 20, 1926, six miles west and one mile south of Winterset, in Webster Township, where he still resides. He was the youngest of seven children of Charles Curtis ("Curt") and Mary Klingaman. Irvin attended Happy Hollow Country School and was a member of Oak Grove Church by the Roseman Covered Bridge. He graduated from Winterset High.
Barbara Graichen, born in Amana, Iowa, on July 2, 1928, came to Winterset to teach junior high language arts in 1950. She and Irvin were married in August 1953. Barbara had attended Amana schools and earned her B.A. degree from what was then Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls.
Two children were born to this family, Mary Ellen, in March 1961, and Kenneth Irvin, in December 1962. Mary was a 4-H member, active in athletics, especially track, and graduated from Winterset High in 1979. She attended Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, and is currently an art major at the University of Illinois in Champagne. Kenneth graduated from Winterset High in 1981, having represented the school in math contests and as a FFA delegate to the National Convention in Kansas City. He attended Iowa State University and is now engaged in a livestock-crop farming operation with his father. Both young people joined the First United Methodist Church in Winterset.
Irvin has been active on farm-related boards, such as Pork Producers, Farm Bureau, Farmers Coop, and M&W Farm Service, and as an ASC committeeman. Barbara is a homemaker, does volunteer work, and belongs to Women's Club.
Irvin's mother was the former Mary Huffman. She was born northwest of Guthrie Center on December 20, 1882, to George and Mary (Hutchinson) Huffman. Due to the death of her mother soon after her birth, Mary came to Madison County to live with her grandparents, John and Amanda Huffman. They farmed in Scott Township. Around age five Mary rejoined her father and stepmother in Webster Township, where they now farmed, and attended Happy Hollow School. She later had several step-siblings: Esther, Amanda, Everett, and Walker.
Charles Curtis Klingaman moved to Madison County as a youth of seventeen. He was born in Linn County in October 1883, near the town of Troy Mills. With his parents and brothers, Elgin and Henry, and sisters, Grace and May, he came to farm southwest of Winterset. One blizzardy day the house caught fire and burned to the ground. The family lived in a shed the rest of that winter, re-building in the spring.
In 1904 Mary Huffman and Curt Klingaman were married and settled in Webster Township, Section 1. They were the parents of Esther, Joseph, Emory, George, Ora, Ethel, and Irvin. Irvin recalls stories his father told of how he and his neighbors used to scoop snow to unblock roads. Charles Klingaman died in January 1951, and Mary in September 1974.
info from: Madison County Genealogical Society, History of Madison County, (published 1984), p215.
Contributor: K Haymond
IRVIN KLINGAMAN FAMILY HISTORY
Irvin Neal Klingaman was born on October 20, 1926, six miles west and one mile south of Winterset, in Webster Township, where he still resides. He was the youngest of seven children of Charles Curtis ("Curt") and Mary Klingaman. Irvin attended Happy Hollow Country School and was a member of Oak Grove Church by the Roseman Covered Bridge. He graduated from Winterset High.
Barbara Graichen, born in Amana, Iowa, on July 2, 1928, came to Winterset to teach junior high language arts in 1950. She and Irvin were married in August 1953. Barbara had attended Amana schools and earned her B.A. degree from what was then Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls.
Two children were born to this family, Mary Ellen, in March 1961, and Kenneth Irvin, in December 1962. Mary was a 4-H member, active in athletics, especially track, and graduated from Winterset High in 1979. She attended Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, and is currently an art major at the University of Illinois in Champagne. Kenneth graduated from Winterset High in 1981, having represented the school in math contests and as a FFA delegate to the National Convention in Kansas City. He attended Iowa State University and is now engaged in a livestock-crop farming operation with his father. Both young people joined the First United Methodist Church in Winterset.
Irvin has been active on farm-related boards, such as Pork Producers, Farm Bureau, Farmers Coop, and M&W Farm Service, and as an ASC committeeman. Barbara is a homemaker, does volunteer work, and belongs to Women's Club.
Irvin's mother was the former Mary Huffman. She was born northwest of Guthrie Center on December 20, 1882, to George and Mary (Hutchinson) Huffman. Due to the death of her mother soon after her birth, Mary came to Madison County to live with her grandparents, John and Amanda Huffman. They farmed in Scott Township. Around age five Mary rejoined her father and stepmother in Webster Township, where they now farmed, and attended Happy Hollow School. She later had several step-siblings: Esther, Amanda, Everett, and Walker.
Charles Curtis Klingaman moved to Madison County as a youth of seventeen. He was born in Linn County in October 1883, near the town of Troy Mills. With his parents and brothers, Elgin and Henry, and sisters, Grace and May, he came to farm southwest of Winterset. One blizzardy day the house caught fire and burned to the ground. The family lived in a shed the rest of that winter, re-building in the spring.
In 1904 Mary Huffman and Curt Klingaman were married and settled in Webster Township, Section 1. They were the parents of Esther, Joseph, Emory, George, Ora, Ethel, and Irvin. Irvin recalls stories his father told of how he and his neighbors used to scoop snow to unblock roads. Charles Klingaman died in January 1951, and Mary in September 1974.
info from: Madison County Genealogical Society, History of Madison County, (published 1984), p215.
Contributor: K Haymond
Irvin Neal Klingaman was born on October 20, 1926, six miles west and one mile south of Winterset, in Webster Township, where he still resides. He was the youngest of seven children of Charles Curtis ("Curt") and Mary Klingaman. Irvin attended Happy Hollow Country School and was a member of Oak Grove Church by the Roseman Covered Bridge. He graduated from Winterset High.
Barbara Graichen, born in Amana, Iowa, on July 2, 1928, came to Winterset to teach junior high language arts in 1950. She and Irvin were married in August 1953. Barbara had attended Amana schools and earned her B.A. degree from what was then Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls.
Two children were born to this family, Mary Ellen, in March 1961, and Kenneth Irvin, in December 1962. Mary was a 4-H member, active in athletics, especially track, and graduated from Winterset High in 1979. She attended Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, and is currently an art major at the University of Illinois in Champagne. Kenneth graduated from Winterset High in 1981, having represented the school in math contests and as a FFA delegate to the National Convention in Kansas City. He attended Iowa State University and is now engaged in a livestock-crop farming operation with his father. Both young people joined the First United Methodist Church in Winterset.
Irvin has been active on farm-related boards, such as Pork Producers, Farm Bureau, Farmers Coop, and M&W Farm Service, and as an ASC committeeman. Barbara is a homemaker, does volunteer work, and belongs to Women's Club.
Irvin's mother was the former Mary Huffman. She was born northwest of Guthrie Center on December 20, 1882, to George and Mary (Hutchinson) Huffman. Due to the death of her mother soon after her birth, Mary came to Madison County to live with her grandparents, John and Amanda Huffman. They farmed in Scott Township. Around age five Mary rejoined her father and stepmother in Webster Township, where they now farmed, and attended Happy Hollow School. She later had several step-siblings: Esther, Amanda, Everett, and Walker.
Charles Curtis Klingaman moved to Madison County as a youth of seventeen. He was born in Linn County in October 1883, near the town of Troy Mills. With his parents and brothers, Elgin and Henry, and sisters, Grace and May, he came to farm southwest of Winterset. One blizzardy day the house caught fire and burned to the ground. The family lived in a shed the rest of that winter, re-building in the spring.
In 1904 Mary Huffman and Curt Klingaman were married and settled in Webster Township, Section 1. They were the parents of Esther, Joseph, Emory, George, Ora, Ethel, and Irvin. Irvin recalls stories his father told of how he and his neighbors used to scoop snow to unblock roads. Charles Klingaman died in January 1951, and Mary in September 1974.
info from: Madison County Genealogical Society, History of Madison County, (published 1984), p215.
Contributor: K Haymond
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