HARTWIGSEN, Jacalyn M. (CURLEY)

CURLEY, HARTWIGSEN, MULLEN, SCHLIEGER, CLAUSE, FREUND, MILLER, KIDGELL, RADFORD

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/29/2016 at 03:03:43

Obituary ~ Jacalyn M. (Curley) Hartwigsen
October 13, 1952 ~ October 02, 1999

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

Jacalyn M. Curley Hartwigsen, 46, formerly of Rockwell, died Saturday (Oct. 2, 1999) at her home at 16212 N.E. 30th Ave., Ridgefield, Wash., of natural causes.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Rockwell United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Bruce E. Wittern officiating. Interment will be in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery.

Visitation will begin after 4 p.m. today at the church. Fullerton Funeral Home, 123 Second St. S.E., Mason City, is in charge of arrangements.

Further memorial services will be held on October 13, 1999 in Vancouver, Wash.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to the Jacalyn M. Curley Hartwigsen Memorial Fund.

Jacalyn Maire Hartwigsen was born on Oct. 13, 1952, in Mason City, the daughter of Robert "Bob" and Beulah (Mullen) Curley. She was both baptized and confirmed at St. Peter Lutheran Church. She graduated from the Rockwell-Swaledale High School in 1971. She graduated in July 1973 from the LPN nursing school at NIACC. While attending school she worked at Good Shepherd Nursing Home as an Aid and then went to work at Mercy Hospital. Following her graduation she was employed in surgery at the hospital. She continued her medical studies at NIACC, Chicago and Seattle. In 1976 she moved to the state of Washington, where she was a surgical technician with Southwest Washington Medical Center.

She enjoyed quilting and sewing, needlepoint and crocheting. She made porcelain dolls, doing plaster crafts and stained glass. She was well known for her chicken and rooster collection, having more than 1,000 collected. She also donated her time working in Romania in May 1993 with the Northwest Medical Teams International and in Mexico helping others in need. To Jacalyn everyone came first and she was known for her smiling face and great sense of humor.

Those thankful in sharing Jacalyn's life include her mother, Beulah Curley, of Rockwell; two sisters, Julie (Curley) and her husband, Ken Hanawalt, and their son, Justin, of Rockwell; Michele (Curley) Schlieger and her husband, Jay, and their daughter, Jordyn, of Portland, Ore.; and four aunts, Mary Clausen and Marcielle Freund, both of Mason City, JoAnn and her husband, Wendell Miller, of Hampton, and June Kidgell, of Sunnyvale, Calif.; and many cousins; her special friend, Martell Radford, of Portland, Ore.; and many close friends whose lives she touched both in North Iowa and on the West Coast.

She was preceded in death by her father, grandparents Eugine Mullen, and Michael and Louella Curley.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2016