{"id":8077,"date":"2019-10-13T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:46:52","slug":"carl-hakert-elkader-iowa-october-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2019\/10\/carl-hakert-elkader-iowa-october-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Hakert, Elkader, Iowa, October 13, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Carl Duane Hakert<\/strong>, 75, of Elkader, Iowa passed away on Sunday, October 13, 2019, at the Elkader Care Center. He was born April 2, 1944, in Wadena, to George M. and Esther C. (Fritz) Hakert.\u00a0 Carl attended Central Community School, graduating with the Class of 1962. He served in the United States Air Force, stationed in Europe.<\/p>\n

He was united in marriage to Sandra Kay Burlingame on April 14, 1984, in Calmar, IA.\u00a0 Carl was Parts Manager at Red Country and Windridge for many years and also farmed. He enjoyed playing softball, hunting, fishing and playing cards. In the fall Carl would love to go squirrel hunting and was very good at it. For several years he had an annual squirrel fry for several men.<\/p>\n

Carl was an instigator \u2013 he loved to \u201cstir up\u201d people \u2013 then walk away and laugh!<\/p>\n

Carl was a member (maybe even a founding father \u2013 the boys can\u2019t remember<\/em>) of the elite Pronto Good Ole Boys Coffee Group. He served in different positions in the club \u2013 standing, sitting etc. Carl was able to \u201chold his own\u201d<\/em> perhaps even add to stories shared. Until we meet again friend \u2013 you will be missed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Survivors include his wife Sandra of Elkader; one son, Deron Hakert of Strawberry Point; two step-daughters, Carolyn Olsen of Downers Grove, IL and Kimberly (Dean) Lee of West Des Moines; six grandchildren, Tanner Hakert, Olivia Lee, Addison Lee, Gavin Lee, Jade Hrovatin and Lillian Hrovatin; one brother, Marlen (Deb) Hakert of Manchester and one sister, Karol Ann Sauerbry of Manchester.<\/p>\n

Carl was preceded in death by his parents; daughter Karla K. Hakert in 2004 and a niece, Jolene Hakert in 2018.<\/p>\n

Visitation<\/strong>: One hour before the service on Friday, October 18, 2019 at at Leonard-Grau Funeral Home in Elkader, Iowa.<\/p>\n

Funeral Service<\/strong>: 11:00 AM on Friday, October 18, 2019 at the funeral home<\/p>\n

Interment with Military Honors<\/strong>: East Side Cemetery, Elkader, Iowa<\/p>\n

Leonard-Grau Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Elkader is assisting the family. Online condolences may be left with www.graufuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Duane Hakert, 75, of Elkader, Iowa passed away on Sunday, October 13, 2019, at the Elkader Care Center. He was born April 2, 1944, in Wadena, to George M. and Esther C. (Fritz) Hakert.\u00a0 Carl attended Central Community School, graduating with the Class of 1962. He served in the United States Air Force, stationed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[701],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-hakert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}