March 29, 2024

Larry Hartle

Creston

Larry D. Hartle, 56, of Creston died Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

Memorial services will be held at a later date in Colorado by the family. Powers Funeral Home, junction of highways 34 and 25, in Creston is assisting with arrangements. Memorials may be made to: Hartle Family, 607 N. Pine St., Creston, Iowa 50801. Online condolences may be left at www.powersfh.com.

Larry Dean Hartle, son of Fred Hartle and Charlene (Pierce), was born May 31, 1961, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He attended school in Gypsum High School in Gypsum, Colorado. While living in Gypsum, he ran the family restaurant for a short time, and then moved to Denver where he worked as a cook in a restaurant.

On June 1, 1986, he married Sandy Lee White in Gypsum, Colorado, and moved to Creston in 1997 where he worked at the Windrow for about 10 years. Larry was then employed at Creston Community Schools as a paraeducator in the severe and profound room for about five years.

Larry is survived by his wife Sandy Hartle of Creston; sons, Fred Hartle, Jerry Hartle, Jess Hartle and Chas Hartle, all of Creston; mother Charlene Hartle of Platteville, Colorado; mother- and father-in-law, Jerry and Marcia White of Creston; sister Colleen Nichols of Grand Junction, Colorado; brother-in-law Steven White of Creston; sisters-in-law, Sharon (Mike) McCarty of Denver, Colorado, and Susan Lemon (Roger Bachman) of Canyon City, Colorado; several nieces, nephews, great-nephews, great-nieces, friends and extended family.

Larry was preceded in death by his father Fred Hartle and sister Daphne Hartle.