Doris Hargrave

Doris Hargrave, daughter of Henry and Hattie Mann Ahrens, was born December 29, 1915 in Lyndon, Illinois. She graduated from Lyndon High School and Rock Island Business College. She attended Monmouth College where she became a member of Pi Gamma Pi Honorary Society. She worked as a bookkeeper for McCabe's Style Shop in Rock Island, and secretary at Eclipse Lawn Mower Company in Prophetstown, Illinois until her marriage to Donald Hargrave in Monmouth, Illinois on May 3, 191. She and Don started Hargrave Implement Company in Tipton on June 23, 1941, adding the automobile business after Word War II. Doris kept books for the company until her retirement. She is survived by her son, Phillip (Flip) Hargrave of Tipton, Iowa; her daughter, Jane Hargrave Lehmkuhl of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; grandchildren, Tanya Hargrave-Klein, Kyra Gilkison and Jack Lehmkuhl; and great-grandchildren Gillian, Cael, Tasha and Brody. Memorial may be made to Tipton United Methodist Church Kitchen Fund or Cedar Manor Nursing Home, Tipton.