Southern ia. northern mo. Whitacre Info
Hugh W. Whitacre, 85, of Bloomfield died Feb. 20, 2001, at the Cox Medical Center South in
Springfield, Mo.
He was born April 21, 1915, in Schuyler County, Mo. to Charles Newton and Clara Ada White
Whitacre. He married Bertha J. Casteel on Sept. 6, 1939 in Unionville, Mo. She died March 2,
1996.
He was a retired farmer and retired employee of the Iowa State Highway Commission for 25 years.
Survivors include one daughter, Jane Carr of Rockaway Beach, Mo.; five grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren; one sister, Lubelle Spurgeon of Bloomfield; and two brothers, Ray and Glen
Whitacre, of Bloomfield.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one daughter, Bonnie Hudson; three grandsons, and three
brothers, Omer, Estell and Ivan Whitacre.
Funeral services were Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001, at the Henkenius-Priester Funeral Home in
Bloomfield conducted by the Rev. Kevin Gingerich of the Bloomfield United Methodist Church.
Burial was in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Cincinnati, Iowa.
A memorial has been established to the Cincinnati Avenue of Flags.