Hoye, Mary Elaine (1919-2015)

HOYE, KELLY, O’DONNELL, DAVIS

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 9/9/2015 at 12:13:39

Mary Elaine Hoye
May 2, 1919 - August 19, 2015

Mary Elaine Kelly was born on May 2, 1919, at home in Fonda, Iowa, to E. J. (Joe) and Hazel (O’Donnell) Kelly. In 1929, she moved with her parents and four brothers, Louis, James, Edward (Keith), and Francis to a farm outside Varina. She graduated from St. Columbkille’s School in Varina in 1937 with a class of four. Next, she graduated from the American Institute of Business in Des Moines with a certificate of honor and departed for Washington D.C. where she had been hired as a correspondence and personnel clerk with the Department of Agriculture. On February 22, 1943, she married Thomas E. Hoye, her childhood sweetheart. Then, she returned to Washington D.C. to wait for the war to end and her husband to return home. In 1945, Tom was honorably discharged from the army; Mary Elaine resigned her government position; and the young married couple headed back to Iowa.

By 1949, Tom and Mary had taken up farming near Rembrandt, Iowa, where they raised their young family. In 1963, they left the farm and moved to Storm Lake, Iowa. Tom passed away in January of 1972, and Mary remained in Storm Lake until 1982. Over that ten year span, she worked at the Storm Lake Hospital and the Morgan Nursing Home as a nurse’s aide and at St. Mary’s School as a cook. At the age of sixty-two, she retired from Security Trust and Savings Bank where she had worked as an administrative assistant. In 2005, she moved to Pleasant View Nursing Home where she resided until her passing on August 19, 2015.

Over the years, Mary served her Church faithfully as a Eucharistic Minister, RCIA Sponsor, Associate of the Sisters of the Presentation, and a member of the Sursam Corda prayer group at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Storm Lake.

Mary had an infectious smile, a deep-seated competitive streak while playing a game of cards, and an unmatched love of her Irish heritage and Catholic faith. She loved to travel and went to many states and Canada with her children and friends, but the highlight of her travels was her trip to Ireland. She thought of the sight of the sun setting over Galway Bay as the most beautiful she had ever seen.

Mary is survived by her children: Sister Elena Hoye, of Dubuque, Rose and Sid Davis, of Havelock, Jim and Michelle (Nees) Hoye, of Rock Rapids, and Patrick and Renee (Fry) Hoye, of Peasant Hill; her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Joe Hoye (Connie Gard), of Storm Lake; nine grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren; her brother, Francis, and his wife, Jackie Kelly, of Varina; and her sister-in-law, Mary Kelly, of Storm Lake; as well as by the many who were forever changed by her deep faith and compassion.

She is preceded in death by her husband, her son, her parents, and three brothers.

A Funeral Mass will be offered Saturday, August 22, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Storm Lake. Burial will follow in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Storm Lake. Visitation will take place Friday, August 21, 2015, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. with a recitation of the rosary at 6:00 p.m. and a Celebration of Life Service at 7:00 p.m. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements.

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