Hotchkin, Mary 1899-1974

HOTCHKIN, PIERCE, BYRD, COCKERTON, ADAIR, DRAKE, DE HART

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Date: 6/1/2007 at 19:52:08

Mary Hotchkin Services are Set for Friday

KELLOGG - Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Towne (Mary Amelia) Hotchkin, 74, a longtime resident of Kellogg, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Grinnell.

The Rev. Leo V. Kuebrich, pastor of the church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Hazelwood Cemetery in Grinnell.

Vigil services will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell.

Survivors are four sons, Neil of Kellogg, David of Seattle, Wash., Dennis of Renton, Wash., and Steven of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; three daughters, Mrs. James (Patricia) Pierce of Grinnell, Mrs. Crite (Diane) Byrd of Enumclaw, Wash., and Mrs. Robert (Hope) Cockerton of Newton; 20 grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Ray B. (Gertrude) Adair of Enumclaw, Wash.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1968, two grandchildren and a brother.

Mrs. Hotchkin was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Grinnell.

The daughter of Theodore W. and Tabitha Drake De Hart, she was born August 26, 1899 in Prairie Creek, Ind., attended Kellogg schools and was a 1918 graduate of Kellogg High School.

She was married September 10, 1924.

She died Monday evening at the Jasper County home southeast of Newton. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News March 1974