Haack, Eldora Hazel (1910-2003)

HAACK, JACKSON, GARRELS, WALDSTEIN, JOHNSON, TOWNSEND, DETERMANN, BEEBY, TROFIMOFF, MILLER, DIERKS, WILLIAMS, WOLF, KLUGE, SPERFSLAGE

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 11/8/2010 at 23:55:45

Eldora Hazel Haack
February 4, 1910 - May 13, 2003

Eldora Hazel Haack, age 93, of Early, died Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at the Twilight Acres Nursing Home in Wall Lake.

On February 4, 1910, a tiny, brown-eyed baby girl, Eldora Hazel Jackson, blessed Herbert and Jessie Jackson' home on the "Jackson Fruit Farm" in rural Newell. She joined siblings Merle and Isabelle. They were later joined by Marion and Lorraine.

Arriving in a horse-drawn wagon or sleigh, Hazel attended grade and high school in Newell where she participated in operettas, sang in the choir, and took many sewing and cooking classes. When Hazel graduated in 1927, she had earned a teacher's certificate.

During the summer of 1927, while recovering from thyroid surgery in a Battle Creek hospital, Hazel met Herman Haack when he came to visit his sister, Gertie. This chance meeting prompted a friendship, which grew into love, and Herman and Hazel were married on December 4, 1930, in Storm Lake. To this union, four children were born: Donald, Darlene, Duane and Dianna.

Herman and Hazel farmed near Battle Creek and Newell before moving to a farm north of Early. There they farmed and raised livestock until Herman's death in 1968. Hazel remained on the farm until the mid-1980s when she moved into Early.

Hazel was a very active farm wife, and she had a phenomenal capacity for work. Hazel's small frame conquered the numbing labor common to raising chickens and hogs, running a dairy, and nurturing a huge garden. She enjoyed canning all the food her family ate, baking bread, rolls and pies; and she was also an active quilt maker and card player. Membership in the Kil'Kare Klub, a rural ladies club, involvement with the United Methodist Women in Early, and teaching Bible school satisfied her need for social activity.

Hazel is survived by her son: Duane G. Haack, and his wife, Cheryl, of Schaller; two daughters: Darlene J. Garrels, of Wall Lake and Dianna J. Waldstein, and her husband, Scott, of Early; one sister, Lorraine Johnson, of Joplin, Missouri; one sister-in-law, Virginia Jackson, of Laurens; nine grandchildren: Margo Townsend and husband John, of Quimby, Brian Haack and wife Alicia, of Nemaha, Mark Determann and wife Joyce of Wall Lake, Kenneth Determann and wife Sue, of Wall Lake, Beverly Determann, of Forest City, Kimberly Beeby and husband Daniel, of Pensacola, Florida, Diana Trofimoff and husband Alexander, of Kansas City, Missouri, Kristen Miller and husband Al, of Gilbert, Steve Waldstein and wife Julie, of Reinbeck; twenty great-grandchildren: Makala Dierks and husband Andy, Saidee and Jesse Haack, Mike and Josh Williams, Tara and Shawna Determann, Nicole and Nickolas Determann, Shannon, Rebecca and Christine Beeby, Anna and Nikolas Trofimoff, Sara, Jeff, Jenna and Megan Miller, Kody, Taylor, Coltan and Brady Waldstein, and Justin Wolf; and two great-great-grandchildren: Shantell Williams and Alex and McKenna Dierks, and other extended family and friends.

Preceding Hazel in death are her parents, Herbert and Jessie Jackson; her husband, Herman; two brothers, Merle and Marion Jackson; one sister, Isabelle Kluge; a son and daughter-in-law, Don and Donna Haack; two sons-in-law, Melvin Determann and Lennis Garrels; two brothers-in law, John Johnson and Charlie Kluge; one sister-in-law, Pansy Jackson; and one grandson-in-law, Bruce Sperfslage.

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