Hamman, Pearl Glee Shafer (1900-1995)

HAMMAN, SHAFER, SHAFFER, DOOLITTLE, HAMAAN, WHEELER, WATERS, CRAWFORD

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 6/2/2017 at 10:05:41

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Monday, December 18, 1995

Pearl Hamman, 95, Webster City, died Dec. 16, 1995, at Hamilton County Public Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Faith United Methodist Church in Webster City with Dr. Charles Smith officiating. Burial will be at Cass Center in Webster City. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday at Foster Funeral Home and prior to services at the church.

Pearl Glee Shafer, daughter of Edmond J. and Mary Bell Doolittle Shafer, was born Oct. 5, 1900 in Hamilton County. On Aug. 3, 1926, she married Jonathan I. Hamman in Webster City. The couple farmed in the Hamilton County area. She taught in rural schools in Hamilton County from 1920 to 1926. She was a homemaker from 1926 until 1955 and was employed at Morton Foods in Webster City from 1955 until 1962, when she retired. Her husband died Dec. 6, 1951.

She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Ruby Hamman, Webster City; Sharon and Richard Wheeler, Webster City, Gladys and Harold Waters, West Des Moines; sons and daughters-in-law, Roger and Charlene Hamman, Bettendorf and Lyle and Sharon Hamman, Sedalia, Colo.; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; half brother, Ralph Shafer, Lyon, Kan. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Mildred Crawford; and half brother, Harry Shafer.