Lillian HOCKENBERRY

HOCKENBERRY, TOPPIN, CLEMONS, DOOLITTLE, DAVIS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/26/2011 at 07:41:32

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Thursday, April 13, 1939, p. 19 col. 1-2

DIES SUDDENLY OF HIP INJURY

Lillian Hockenberry, Goldfield (Wright Co., Iowa) Principal, Succumbs at Hospital.

Lillian Hockenberry, 64, principal of the junior high school at Goldfield, died at a local hospital at 8:15 o'clock Wednesday night, following an illness of about six weeks. She was convalescing from a hip fracture when death occurred suddenly.

Miss Hockenberry had been teaching at Goldfield since 1922. She was born Dec. 12, 1874 at Sigourney (Keokuk Co., Iowa). She was a graduate of Grinnell college and Iowa State Teachers college. During the summer months she had resided with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Toppin, Mason City. She was a member of the P. E. O.

Surviving Miss Hockenberry are her sister, Mrs. Toppin, Mason City, and five nieces, Helen Toppin, Mason City; Mrs. Leslie Clemons, Thornton; Mrs. Raymond Doolittle, Winnebago, Minn.; Ruth Toppin, Mason City, and Mrs. Nellie Davis, Kansas City, Mo.; and five nephews, Morris Toppin, Winnebago, Minn.; Harland and Paul Toppin, Clear Lake; Charles Hockenberry, California; and Harland Hockenberry, Kansas City, Mo.

Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the McAuley and Son funeral home Saturday morning at 10 o'clock with the Rev. C. E. Flynn, pastor of the First Methodist church, in charge. The body will be taken overland to Montezuma (Poweshiek Co., Iowa) where an interment service will be held at the grave at 3 o'clock.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Saturday, April 8, 1939, p. 14 col. 6

Lillian Hockenberry Services Held;
Burial at Montezuma Cemetery

Funeral services for Lillian Hockenberry, 64, principal of the junior high school at Goldfield, who died at a local hospital Wednesday evening, were held at the chapel of the McAuley and Son funeral home Saturday morning.

The Rev. C. E. Flynn, pastor of the First Methodist church, was in charge of services.

The Minster Trio, composed of Mrs. Don Wells, Mrs. A. C. Hagerman and Mrs. C. E. Gilman sang "Whispering Hope" and "Abide with Me." They were accompanied by Mrs. Roscoe Patton.

Pallbearers were Morris, Harland and Paul Toppin and Leslie Clemons, nephews.

The body was taken overland to Montezuma where interment services were held at 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon.

Pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of Goldfield attended the services.

Also attending the services from Goldfield were Mrs. F. M. Clausen, Doris Rossow, Mrs. Albert Hansen, Mrs. B. W. McElhinney, Mr. and Mrs. B. Stoakes, Mrs. B. L. Bosinger, Mrs. F. W. Stevenson, Mrs. Howard Moseley, Glen Moseley, Marshall C. Nelson, Frances Kabile, George Kabile, Mrs. Barbara Moseley, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Moore, Kenneth Bangston and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Pinkham.

Submission by Kay Ehlers, July 13, 2005