Niki Hartman, 27 of Barnes City, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday morning, April 27, 2021 at her home in Barnes City. Visitation will begin after 1:00 pm Monday, May 3, 2021 at the Holland-Coble Funeral Home in New Sharon with the family present to greet friends and relatives from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. No funeral services are planned. Holland-Coble Funeral Home of New Sharon is in charge of arrangements.

Nicolette "Niki" Ann Hartman was born Friday, January 7, 1994 at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics in Iowa City and was Baptist on January 24, 2004 at the Grinnell Church of Christ. She attended North Mahaska High School in New Sharon where she played trumpet in the marching band. Later she would be employed by the Victor Rest Area. She was known as a loving, caring person always willing to help others. Niki also wrote poems and sent funny pictures or wrote sayings to brighten someone's day. In her spare time, she enjoyed spending time with family and friends, growing sunflowers of all kinds, collecting pig memorabilia and anything zombie. She also enjoyed making Tik Tok videos of her dog, Junior and rescue cat, Nyx.

She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, G. and L. Lucille Blakley; maternal grandparents, James and Jo Anne Moore; an aunt, Mary Ann Moore; two uncles, James Moore Jr. and Scotty Moore and a half-brother, Nicolas Parker Pitts.

Those left to honor her memory are her mother, Carol Moore of Barnes City; paternal grandmother, Carolyn Hartman of Fairfield; aunts and uncles, John Moore and Vicki Foreman of Montezuma, Dennis and Donna State of Rhodes, Christy Lamb of Grinnell, David and Debbie McQuilkin of Johnston, Gene and Barb Davis of Barnes City, Lloyd Hartman of Des Moines, Jeff Hartman of Fairfield and many other cousins, relatives and friends.

"Your wings were ready; our Hearts were not."