Hazel (Evans) Pinckney

Hazel (Evans) Pinckney, 97, died Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at the Winterset Care Center North. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, October 12, 2015 at Ochiltree Funeral Service in Winterset with burial will follow in the Moon Cemetery, Macksburg. A visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m., Sunday, October 11 at the funeral home with family present during this time. Memorials may be made to the Lorimor First Baptist Church. Hazel Elizabeth Evans, the daughter of John and Bertha (Jessup) Evans was born February 6, 1918 in the stone house, just south of Winterset (Madison County), Iowa. It was built for her grandparents Henry Levi and Mary Elizabeth (Atkinson) Evans. When she was 13 her family moved one mile west of Macksburg and she started going by her first name Hazel. She graduated from Macksburg High School in 1935 and on July 22, 1935 she married Frank Simmons Pinckney. They were the parents of four daughters: Nancy, who passed away in 2002, Sally, Ellen and Joyce. Frank and Hazel farmed different farms in Madison County. In 1946, they moved to her parent’s farm west of Macksburg and in 1955, they bought the Pinckney home place east of Macksburg. Frank passed away in 1976 and Hazel continued to live on the farm until 2008 when she moved to Winterset. Hazel was a 4-H leader and was active in the Baptist Church, first in Macksburg and when it closed, they went to Lorimor Baptist Church. She enjoyed playing the piano and was the pianist for church services for many years. Along with being a farm wife and helping with the field work, she always had a big garden. She is survived by her daughters, Sally Jenkins of Indianola, Ellen Hall of Winterset, and Joyce Lauer of Winterset; sister-in-law, Nora Evans of Pleasant Hill; 10 grandchildren; two step grandchildren; 27 great grandchildren; many great great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews, and friends. Hazel was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Frank in 1976; daughter, Nancy Sink; siblings, Lee (Gladys) Evans, Laura (Howard) Bell, Katherine (Gorham) Palmer, Ethel (Carl) Given, Charles Evans, John “Cass” (Josephine) Evans; sons-in law, Robert Wolfe, Julius Brown, Edwin Sink, Larry Jenkins, James Arlie Hall, Everett Carpenter, and Duane Lauer; grandsons, James “Eddie” Brown, Frank Brown, and Frank Henry Jenkins, in infancy; and great-grandson, James Brown II.