Hilda Marie (Meyer) Wolf 1913-2006

BAUMGARTNER, MEYER, WOLF, QUASS, HALONEN, SNYDER, WESTCOTT, BULLERMAN, ANFINSON, ROOD

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 9/11/2006 at 10:53:01

Hilda Wolf, 93, Clermont

Hilda Wolf, 93, died Thursday, Aug. 31, in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at Iowa City. A funeral Mass was Sept. 4 in St. Peter's Catholic Church in Clermont. Father Dale Rausch was the presider. Burial was in the Elgin Cemetery. The Schutte Funeral and Cremation Service of Clermont was in charge of arrangements.

Hilda Marie (Meyer) Wolf was born May 16, 1913, to Albert and Louisa (Baumgartner) Meyer, in Marion Township, Clayton County, near Elgin. After her parents died from the Spanish flu in 1919, she, her brother Melbert, cousins Harold and Earl Meyer, and aunt Ida Meyer, moved to Hilda's grandparents' farm between Elgin and Wadena. Although her brother, Elmer, and sister, Eva Mae, grew up with other relatives, the family remained close throughout their entire lives.

She attended the Cherry Valley country school near her home in Clayton County, graduated from Elgin High School and attended Upper Iowa University and received her Teaching Certificate. In 1931, Hilda began teaching at Highland Township School #3 in rural Clayton County. She later taught in Littleport. Hilda always loved music and assembled her first band with the children at the school. Many years later she organized "Grandma and the Ditty Boppers," sending sheet music to the grandkids for family performances at reunions, granddaughter Stephanie's wedding, and Christmas gatherings.

Hilda married Francis Sylvester Wolf (Fritz) on Nov. 19, 1941. They farmed with Fritz's parents near Volga for one year, and then moved to Richmond, Calif. After WW II, they returned to northeast Iowa where they resided the rest of their lives. Hilda was a devoted partner and mother. She especially enjoyed farming with Fritz and always had a huge garden, even in her later years.

She enjoyed gardening, playing the piano and accordion, mowing her yard, hunting mushrooms, helping at St. Peter's Church, visiting family and friends, playing cards, going to the mailbox in her golf cart, and making thousands of Swiss pancakes for her family.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Fritz, in 1977, two brothers, Melbert and Elmer and a sister, Eva Mae Westcott.

Survivors include her children, Steven (Lynn) of Minnetonka, Minn.; Gary (Marcy) of Iowa City; Phyllis (Wayne) Quass of Ossian; and Peter (Wendy) of Dubuque; her grandchildren and their families, Stephanie Wolf and Jim Burrows of Eden Prairie, Minn; Julie Wolf and Wes Williams of Denver, Colo.; Sherry (Tom) Halonen of New Richmond, Wis.; Matt Wolf, Cedar Rapids; Cara (Jud) Snyder of Denver, Colo.; Sheila (Doug) Bullerman of Calmar; Sheryl (Jeff) Anfinson of Arlington; Brian (Anne) Quass, of West Des Moines; Sandra (Chris) Rood, Sumner of Sumner; Mark Wolf of Denver, Colo.; and Paul (Joni) Wolf of Bettendorf.

Elgin, Iowa newspaper, September 5, 2006