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Earl Elmer Heckathorn

1 Mar 1906 – 6 Jul 1923

Birth	1 Mar 1906
Death	6 Jul 1923
Cemetery	Glenwood Resource Center Cemetery Glenwood , Mills County , Iowa , USA
Added by	Scotvik on 26 Jun 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70968784

Bio

Earl was born with Hydrocephalus or water on the brain. He passed away at the Glenwood Institute for Feeble Minded Children - now called the Glenwood Resource Center. Cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis. Earl was admitted to the institute in 1915 at age nine and was classified on the admittance form as "Idiot". The term used today is "profoundly retarded". The family kept him at home for as long as they could manage him and sadly had to institutionalize him when he became too hard to control. His father took him to Glenwood and visited him several times even though they lived in another state. According to Earl's sister Gretchen, his mother never got to go because She was either pregnant or had a baby.

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Family

Parents

• Elmer Ellsworth Heckathorn 1878–1973
• Clarainda Gibbens Heckathorn 1883–1949

Siblings

• Lloyd Wendell Heckathorn Sr 1901–1982
• William Winfield Heckathorn 1903–1960
• Edna Ellen Heckathorn 1908–1908
• Gretchen Fawn Heckathorn Wallace 1909–1997
• Goldie Gladys Heckathorn Erskine 1912–1980
• James Cyrus Heckathorn 1914–2014
• Mable Sarah Heckathorn Chapman 1918–1998
• Ervin Elroy Heckathorn 1921–2008
• Robert E. Heckathorn 1923–2006
• Edwin Sherman Heckathorn 1929–1998

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