HAUTH, June Darleth (Maas) 1923-2013

HAUTH, MAAS, MESWARB

Posted By: K.L. Kittleson
Date: 6/25/2014 at 14:55:20

Obituary for June D. Hauth

June D. Hauth age 89 of New Hampton, Iowa died Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in New Hampton.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at Trinity Lutheran Church, New Hampton, with Pastor Kevin Frey presiding.

Interment will be in the New Hampton City Cemetery with Sam Boos, Kendall Rosauer, John Andersen, John Brayton, Tony Schueth and Bob Hackman serving as pallbearers. Friends may greet the family an hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday. June always gave generously of herself and her possessions. She would smile upon donations to any good cause made in her memory.

June Darleth (Maas) Hauth was born June 14, 1923, on the Meswarb family farm near Fredericka, Iowa, the daughter of Harold V. and Ann (Meswarb) Maas.

June attended New Hampton Community Schools graduating in 1941. She then attended the Iowa State Teacher’s College (now U.N.I.) and graduated in 1945 having earned a B.A. Degree in Home Economics. While at college, she was named to the honorary sorority Theta Theta Epsilon and was elected vice president of the Nu Omicron Nu Sorority.

On June 25, 1954, she was united in marriage to Henry “Hank” Hauth at St. Paul’s (now Trinity) Lutheran Church in New Hampton.

June taught Home Economics for the Ventura, Iowa, school system (1945 - 1947) and the Burlington, Iowa, school system (1947 - 1954). Following their marriage, June and Hank lived in New Hampton where Hank was co-owner of Hauth Corner Drug. June taught for the Alpha, Iowa, school district and then the Lawler, Iowa, school district before retiring in 1957.

Following Hank’s death, June returned to teaching (1961) as a sixth grade teacher for the New Hampton Community School district. When she retired from that position in 1985, the classroom in which she had been teaching was the same classroom in which she had attended kindergarten in the 1920s.

June was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Over the years, she had also been a member of the New Hampton Golf and Country Club, P.E.O., and the A.D.K. sorority. She traveled abroad and throughout the U.S. with friends and family and for many years enjoyed winters at her home in Florida.

June’s interests were many, from flower arranging and cooking to crafting pine needle baskets. She enjoyed playing bridge in a number of clubs as well as “pick-up” games at Kensington Place Assisted Living where she had been residing since 2007. She took pleasure in reading and welcomed the challenge of pursuing this pastime on a Kindle. June relished visiting with friends and took special delight in her extended family of unofficially adopted, but none-the-less loving, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom were recipients of one of her hand-knit baby afghans.

June was a benefactor of the Carnegie Cultural Center and most recently donated her home to benefit the New Hampton Community Schools’ Dollars for Scholars Program.

June is survived by a number of cousins and many close friends who will miss her dearly.

She was preceded in death by her parents, H.V. and Ann Maas, her husband, Hank, in 1960 and her brother, Cletus, in 2006.

Source: Hugeback Funeral Home website