Margaret Jean LITTLE GREEN 1919-2003

LITTLE, GREEN, HEMPEL, HODGIN, HEUERMANN, STALEY

Posted By: Lewis E. "Gene" Green (email)
Date: 11/14/2006 at 19:18:22

Hampton Chronicle, Wednesday, March 12, 2003

"Margaret Green, long-time resident of Chapin, passed away at her home about 6:30 p.m., Sunday, March 9, 2003. Her son, Gene, was at her side in her final hour. They were conversing one moment and the next moment she was gone, all quite peacefully.

"Memorial services will be held at the United Methodist Church in Chapin at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2003. The Reverend Richard Parker, Neighborhood Bible Church in Hampton will officiate. Reverend Parker, who officiated at the services of Margaret's husband, Lindy, on March 6, 2003, had visited Margaret just a couple of hours before her passing. Sietsema-Vogcl Funeral Home, Hampton, was in charge of arrangements.

"Margaret Jean Little was born September 16,1919, in Hampton. Her parents were Wayland Stanley Little, a native of Franklin County and Amy Estelle Heuermarm Little, a native of Butler County. Margaret was a direct descendant of Solomon Staley, the first sheriff of Franklin County and her roots ran deep in the area south of Hampton along Mayne's Creek, the first area settled in Franklin County. She first attended school in the two-story, stone school house about five miles south of Hampton known as the Maysville School. Most of her education, however, took place in Hampton from which schools she received her high school diploma
in 1937.

"On November 3, 1941, she married Lindy Green in Atchison, Kansas. After living at various rural addresses, Margaret and Lindy moved to Chapin in 1946 where, except for a few brief absences, Margaret spent the rest of her life.

"While principally a housewife, Margaret had at various times worked at the canning factory in Hampton in the fall canning season in her earlier years and later as a desk clerk at the Coonley Hotel. Margaret and Lindy ran the Woods Hotel in Iowa Falls for a few years and in the last few years she worked part-time as a desk clerk at the Gold Key Motel in Hampton.

"Margaret and her late husband, Lindy, were members of the Wigwam and Wagon Campers and enjoyed outings with that organization very much. This group of mostly senior citizens would have weekend camp-outs at various parks in the north central Iowa area at which Lindy and Margaret were regularly in attendance.

"Margaret is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Jane Hempel of New Brighton, Minn.; a son, Lewis E. "Gene" Green of El Paso, Tex.; a daughter, Dorathy Mae Hodgin of Seneca, S.C.: eight grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; four step-great-grandsons; two great-great-granddaughters and one step-great-greatgrandson.

"Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Lindy, who passed away just 10 days earlier, and one step-great-grandson."