Lucille Wylder "Winkie" Hemmingson 1908-1943

HEMMINGSON, WYLDER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 3/25/2011 at 23:55:35

Death Comes to Lucille Hemmingson
Coming as a great shock to her wide circle of friends who had not known of her critical condition, death came Wednesday [April 21, 1943] evening at 6:05 to relieve the suffering of Mrs. Clifford (Lucille) Hemmingson. “Winkie” as she was known to her family and friends had been brought home in February from the sanitarium at Oakdale after a three year struggle to regain her health. She was seemingly gaining when stricken with a kidney ailment which proved fatal.

There was probably no other single person in Estherville so well known and so universally liked. She had worked for a number of years as a stenographer for the late Attorney J. W. Morse, for Attorney Wm. Bale and just prior to going to Oakdale had been in charge of the Emmet County Welfare office.

Born March 6, 1908 at Montgomery, Iowa, she came to Estherville with her parents as a small child and had made this city her home almost her entire life. She was graduated from the Estherville High School with the class of ’26.

On August 6, 1938 she was married to Clifford H. Hemmingson, now with the United States Navy at San Diego, Calif.

Surviving are her husband, mother, Mrs. Annette Wylder, a brother, Chas. (Bud) Wylder, a niece, Sharon and nephew, Charles, Jr. of Portland, Oregon.

Funeral arrangements await the arrival of Mr. Hemmingson and the brother. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, April 22, 1943)