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Arvin Glen Haywood passed through the eternal farm gate to his heavenly home on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, at Creekside Nursing Home in Grundy Center. He was born in rural Granger July 2, 1935, at home to his parents Harry and Winnetta (Herrold) Haywood.
Arvin moved with his family to rural Union in 1938, where he graduated from Union High School, Union, Iowa, in 1953. He attended Ellsworth College, lowa Falls, Iowa, briefly before transferring to William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he participated in basketball and campus activities.
He met his lifelong partner Carolyn Jean McDowell of Grinnell, IA, and they were married on December 23, 1955. Arvin and Carolyn both graduated from William Penn College in May 1957 with teaching degrees.
Arvin contracted tuberculosis in 1958 and was admitted to Oakdale Hospital where he recuperated from January until December. He spent his time learning to tool beautiful leather billfolds and purses, and made yarn shawls on a wooden loom.
Arvin's first teaching position began in Letts, lowa; other positions included Union-Whitten and Eldora High School. Following thirteen years of teaching Business, History, Economics, and Social Studies, he returned with his family to Union to the farm he was raised on and reacquainted himself with his love of the land, livestock and farming. The 'teacher' in him never left as he continued to substitute, taught investing classes, classes for Veterans, Sunday School, and fill in at the pulpit. Arvin grew up attending the Union Community Church and later the Eldora Congregational Church.
Arvin enjoyed sharing his time with Kiwanis, Rotary, Hardin County Farm Museum, tractor rides, counselor for Boys State. He especially enjoyed writing about vintage iron for DTN and saving stories about his childhood on the farm. He made many Canadian fishing trips with friends and family with plenty of fish stories to tell and some to eat. Arvin especially had a love of growing his garden, especially the strawberry patch, melons, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and making horseradish. He loved to share it and Carolyn was thankful for that.
His older children are so grateful for the time their dad spent building two different home-made campers for their out-west summer vacations. Their parents did their best at 'teaching' them the history of the west only to find them lying in the back window or on the floor. The best vacation came when their parents purchased a real camper - a Winnebago. Those vacations waned once the family was on the farm and two more boys joined the family. The younger ones got to stay in hotel rooms; not homemade campers.
Surviving are his wife of 67 years, Carolyn of Arlington Place, Grundy Center; children, Susan (Marvin) Beneke of Palmer, Charles (Linda) Haywood of Ames, Carl (Priya) Haywood of Mountain View, California, Paul (Dianne) Haywood of Union; grandchildren, Erin (Michael) Peat of Dubuque, Jessica (Kevin) Bane of Ames, Nicole Olson of Scottsdale, Arizona, Emily Haywood of lowa City, Tom and Spencer Haywood of Ames, Nina, Kiran and Raina Mistry Haywood of Mountain View, California; great Grandchildren; sisters-in-laws Erma Haywood of Eldora and Betty Haywood of Story City; sister Corinne Martin of Marshalltown; brother George (Elaine) Haywood of Rhodes; and many nieces and nephews.
In death Arvin has been reunited with his parents, his wife's parents Arthur O. and Mildred
McDowell; sister Frieda Newby; brothers LaVerne and Charles Haywood; and brother and sister-in-law Ray and Betty McDowell.
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1935 - 2022 (87 years)
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