Robert Wells Hinshaw

8 Sep 1919 – 26 Mar 2003

2nd Great Grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Great Grandson of Catherine Cardon and Moses Byrne
Grandson of Alice Byrne and Thomas Hinshaw
Son of William Edwin Hinshaw and Vera Mae Archer


Funeral services for Evanston resident Robert “Bob” Wells Hinshaw, 83, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 29, at Crandall Funeral Home in Evanston. Interment will follow in Evanston City Cemetery. Visitation will be at 10 a.m.

He died March 26, 2003, at his home. Born in 1919 in Evanston, he was the son of William E. and Vera Mae (Archer) Hinshaw. In April 1939, he married Marjorie Henley. The couple later divorced. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1955, he married Annie Elizabeth (Robertson) Anderton. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and enjoyed the outdoors, gardening, and doing leather work.

Survivors include his wife of 48 years of Evanston; two sons and their wives, Edwin Hinshaw of Cabot, Arkansas, and Duane Anderton of Okahumpka, Florida; three daughters, Linda Martinez of Evanston, Jerri McKenzie and her husband of Green River and Lola Eastman and her husband of Woodruff, Utah; sister, Helen Anderson, and her husband of Evanston; 27 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son, Robert Allen; and three brothers, Bill Hinshaw, Gayle Hinshaw and Jack Hinshaw.


Evanston City Cemetery, Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming

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