Hall, Neva Theresa Garrick (1892-1983)

HALL, GARRICK, MARTIN, MOURLAM, TRIPLETT, JACOBSON, COMEAUX

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Date: 1/2/2015 at 16:28:43

Daily Freeman Journal, Friday, January 14, 1983

Funeral services for Neva G. Hall, longtime Webster City resident and former Hamilton county clerk of courts, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Christ with Don Basye officiating. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery.

Friends may call until 10 a.m. Saturday when the casket will be taken to the church.

Mrs. Hall died Thursday morning at the Hamilton County hospital where she had been a patient since Tuesday. She had been in ill health the past year.

Neva Theresa Garrick, daughter of Francis and Sarah Martin Garrick, was born Sept. 24, 1892, at Otterville, Iowa. When she was 7 years old, she moved with her parents to Conrad, Iowa, where she was reared and educated. The family later moved to Webster City.

She attended business college at Waterloo, and worked in the surgeon general's office in Washington, D.C., during World War I.

She was united in marriage Dec. 25, 1919, at Webster City to Oscar C. Hall. With the exception of a brief time during which they lived in Waterloo and Illinois, she had always lived in Webster City.

For 13 years she was bookkeeper at the Farmers Co-op in Webster City, after which she served for four years as deputy clerk of court and then for 17 years was clerk of courts.

She is survived by the four daughters, Mrs. Roger (Mary Margaret) Mourlam of Webster City, Mrs. Elton (Helen) Triplett of St. Paul, Mrs. Stanton (Neva Jean) Jacobson of Story City and Mrs. Hilliard (Shirley) Comeaux of Rochester, Minn.; 16 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are several nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents and an older brother, Ernest E. Garrick.

She was a member of the Church of Christ, the American Legion Auxiliary, World War I Barracks, the Rebekah lodge, the Ladies Auxiliary Patriarch Militants, the Royal Neighbors and the Women's Relief corps.