1933 – George Minehart – 2017
George Minehart was born on February 2, 1933, in Avoca, Minnesota, to his parents Russell G. and Winifred Effie Minehart (nee’ Fairley). Mr. Minehart graduated from Slayton High School in 1952. He married Bette Jean Thompson in 1954. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1958. After graduation, the Mineharts moved to Marshall, Minnesota, where George took a position with Gold and Carlson CPAs. He earned his certificate on the first try and served as a Certified Public Accountant to farmers and businesses in the Marshall area for many years. George retired from Minehart, McKee, Anderson, and Associates. In retirement, he particularly enjoyed biking around the Marshall area and watching the sports exploits of his grand children. George Fairley Minehart died in hospice on August 20, 2017, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 84. George served as President of First Lutheran Church and on the Church’s Congregation Board, the SSU Foundation Planned Giving Steering Committee, and the Marshall Area Senior Center Foundation Board. He was a United States Army veteran.
George is survived by his wife Bette Jean; his brother Rev. R. Gordon Minehart and sister-in-law Sara Jane (nee’ Brown), Woodbury, MN; his sister-in-law Phyllis Minehart (nee’ Foster), Minneapolis, MN; sons: Thomas George Minehart (Anita), Montgomery, AL, and Michael Gordon Minehart, Sioux Falls, SD; daughters Linda Kay Fox (Larry) of Minneota, MN, and Melissa Jean Mahlen (Steven) of Hampden, ME; grandchildren: Elizabeth Jean Minehart, Heather Lin Anderson, Brock Joel Fox, and Jacob Steven Mahlen; and great-grand children: Jaelin Elsie, Dax Nils, and Rex Fairley Anderson. (George was especially proud that his latest great-grandchild carried on the Fairley name.) George was preceded in death by his brother Rev. James Alvin Minehart, and his sisters: Helen Mae Olson and Janette Faye Minehart Yeager, and his sister-in-law Audrey Clare Thompson St. Andrew and Oliver Walter St. Andrew.
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured and far away.“
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The funeral service for George Minehart Marshall, will be at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, August 25, 2017, at Rehkamp Horvath Funeral Home in Marshall. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. A private family interment will follow the service at the Slayton Memorial Gardens in Slayton, MN: In lieu of flowers, donations preferred to Dougherty Hospice House of Sioux Falls, SD.
