Orange City Area Health System

Herman Bell played for the New York Giants from 1932-34. He was part of the Giants’ 1933 World Series champion team.

been a seventh and eighth grade teacher in Everly and had secured a new position at a ladies’ clothing store in Linn Grove. Their daughter, Margaret, 14, was struck by one bullet which entered her left wrist and lodged near the elbow. Several months after the funeral service, Billy Southworth, Holm’s roommate from their Major League days, and his wife took Margaret into their home to raise and educate her. Media members and friends speculated that Roscoe Holm was discouraged and depressed because every business enterprise since the end of his baseball career had failed. The inability to achieve success off the diamond apparently led him to a maddening abyss of despair. On the day of Holm’s death, Clay County Sheriff Elmer F. Zinn said that two rings were found on Holm’s fingers. One was inscribed, “St. Louis Cardinals. World Champions 1926.” The other bore the inscription, “Rochester Red Wings. Champions 1931.”

SOURCES

• Siouxland: A History of Sioux County, Iowa. By G. Nelson Nieuwenhuis, 1983. • Alton Democrat. • Baseball-Reference.com • Duane Linn, “Wattie’s Final Out.” Society for American Baseball Research,

Field of Dreams Chapter. • St. Louis Post Dispatch • St. Louis Star & Times. • St. Louis Globe Democrat. • MightyCaseyBaseball.com. • HistoryofCardinals.com.

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PHOTO BY DANIEL HOEY

A QUADRUPLE HELPING OF FAMILY STORIES

By Bob Fitch

The sheep pens at the Hawkins place have been stretched to the limit this spring. By mid-April, their ewes had already delivered six sets of quads and 24 sets of triplets.

Travis and Kaylene Hawkins with their sons, Richard and John. Likewise, the length of this story is stretched to the limit because of a “quad” of good story-tellers. Roger and Kathleen Hawkins and their son and daughter-in-law, Travis and Kaylene Hawkins, all have stories to tell about family legacies in farming. Roger and Kathleen live on the family home place north of Le Mars. Travis and Kaylene operate Hawkins Sheep Valley Ranch south of Akron. Travis does the crop farming on Hawkins land and on land with roots in his mother’s Muth and Benson families.

Travis represents the fifth generation to farm the Hawkins acres. More than 130 years ago, Roger’s great grandfather moved from Ireland to Canada and then later to northwestern Iowa where he purchased the farm in 1890. “When I was a youngster, we had everything on this farm,” said Roger. “We had dairy cows, a Black Angus herd, sows and pigs, broilers and laying hens, and we had sheep. We separated the cream and took it to Hull. We took the eggs to Sheldon and that’s what paid for the groceries on Saturday night. That’s the way farming was in those days because we needed everything to survive.” The diversity found on farms during his younger days has mostly faded away. While today’s operations are bigger, one