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Florence (Klein) Hermeier - 1903-1998

KLEIN, FIET, HERMEIER, DIX, HARKREADER, DUVEL, FLAGE, NOLTE, STOCK

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 7/23/2011 at 20:07:41

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON STANDARD, September 30, 1998
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Florence Hermeier, age 95, of Waukon, Iowa were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, September 24 at Bethlehem Presbyterian Church with the Rev. James Walker officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with arrangements by Martin Funeral Home. Casket bearers were Milo Kloke, Robert Kloke, Leo Klocke, James Klocke, Bennie Fiet, and Dale Kiesau.

Florence Esther was born July 6, 1903 to Henry and Christina (Fiet) Klein on their farm in Ludlow Township. She attended Ludlow #7 rural school. On December 11, 1919 she married Fred Hermeier in Waukon, Iowa. Together they farmed in Ludlow Township for many years. In 1956 they moved to Iowa City, Iowa where she worked in the laundry department of Mercy Hospital. After several years they moved to Rockford, Illinois where Florence worked in a restaurant and eventually moved back to Waukon, Iowa. She was a member of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, rural Postville, Iowa and its Ladies Aid.

Since 1991, Florence had been a resident of the Good Samaritan Center, Waukon, Iowa where she died Monday, September 21, 1998. Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, Fred; a son Oliver Hermeier; 4 sisters, Minnie Duvel, Emma Flage, Martha Nolte, and Mary Stock; 2 brothers, Albert Klein and John Klein; and a granddaughter.

Surviving are two daughters, Gladys Dix and Alice (Robert) Harkreader, all of Rockford, Illinois; 2 sons, Richard Hermeier and Raymond Hermeier, both of Iowa City, Iowa; one daughter-in-law, Marcella Hermeier of Waukon, Iowa; 6 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.


 

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