St. Clair County Obits

HUBERT SHINN

St. Clair County Courier
29 April 2005
Hubert Shinn, age 80, of Warsaw, passed away Friday, April 22, 2005, at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital in Clinton. He was born in Benton County on Sept. 6, 1924, the son of Walter and Edith Breshears Shinn.

He grew up near Bentonville and graduated from Warsaw High School in the class of 1941.

In January of 1946, he was united in marriage to Thelma Gaylord in Kansas City, Kan. They made their home on a farm in the Bentonville community and following the Truman Dam Project, in August of 1973 they moved to a farm near Quincy. Unto this union, three sons and two daughters were born.

Hubert owned and operated Shinn’s Garage from the early 1950s until his health failed in 2001.

For the past year and a half, he had been a resident of the Warsaw Health Care Center of Warsaw.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Thelma, in 1992, two sons, Mark, in infancy, and Jerry, at the age of 9, three brothers, William Basil Shinn, Boyd Shinn and Howard Shinn and two sisters, Mary Ann Shinn and Gladys Shinn.

Surviving is one son, Timothy Gene Shinn, of Independence; two daughters, Jane Moore, of Everton, Ark., and Gale Ann Wilkinson, of Hamilton; five grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; a sister, Geneva Adams, of the Belton-Raymore area; other relatives and friends.

Funeral services for Hubert Shinn were Monday, April 25, at the Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw. Burial was in the L.P. Union Cemetery near Warsaw.