FUHRMAN, Naomi

FUHRMAN, KISSINGER, DEWITT, HOPSON, LIVELY, NOBLE, WALKER, WARNER

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 10/30/2006 at 09:18:53

Naomi Fuhrman

Naomi Fuhrman, 93, of Cherokee passed away Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006, at Careage Hills in Cherokee following a lengthy illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, Iowa, with the Rev. Harold Werley officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cherokee. There will be a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. Thursday at the church. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Naomi was born Aug. 20, 1913, near Kingsley, Iowa, to Frank and Belle (Kissinger) DeWitt. She grew up in the Kingsley-Pierson area and attended high school in Pierson. Her last two years of schooling were at Wilson High School in Cherokee, graduating in 1932. She taught rural school in Cherokee County until her marriage.

She was married to Carl Fuhrman on June 7, 1936, at the DeWitt family farm south of Cherokee. The couple farmed in Brooke Township from 1942 to 1978, when they retired and moved into Cherokee. She had lived near her daughter in Florida for the last four years. She entered Careage Hills in March 2006.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Aurelia and was very active in the church, having held many positions including a United Methodist Women district office. She had held many positions with the Farm Bureau Women including president of the Buena Vista County Farm Bureau Women's Club. She was a member of various card clubs and neighborhood women's club. She always enjoyed gardening, traveling and crocheting.

She is survived by a daughter and her husband, Beverly and Lloyd Hopson of Ormond Beach, Fla.; two grandchildren, Tim Hopson of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Shawna Hopson of Wilmington, N.C.; a great-granddaughter, Lexi Lively; and three sisters, Alice and her husband, Milo Noble of Cherokee, Patricia Walker of Sedalia, Mo., and Arlene and her husband, Neil Warner of Quimby, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Carl on Feb. 1, 1994; a son, Linn Fuhrman on Jan. 23, 1994; a sister, Doris DeWitt; and three brothers, Donald, Carroll and Ralph DeWitt.

The family requests that memorials be made to Cherokee Regional Medical Center Hospice.