Hotger, Mrs. Verna Marie 1907-1977

HOTGER, THOMPSON, EICHNER, BIRKENHOLTZ

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Date: 6/28/2005 at 23:15:17

MRS. VERNA HOTGER DIES AT FARGO, N.D.; Services Thursday

Funeral services for Mrs. Clarence (Verna Marie) Hotger, 70 of 2809 1st Ave. E., a resident of Newton since 1972 and the Newton area since 1937, will be held at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning at the First United Methodist Church.

Dr. Richard Bentzinger, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.

Memorial contributions to the Heart Fund will be accepted.

Friends may call at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home after 9 o'clock Wednesday morning.

Survivors are her husband; a son, Bill of Rt.1, Newton; a daughter, Mrs. Gordon (Mary Carolyn) Thompson of Rt. 2, Fargo, N.D.; two grandchildren, Patricia Anne Thompson of Fargo, N.D., and Christina Lynn Hotger of Rt. 1, Kellogg; and a brother, Carroll Eichner of Killduff.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Gerald, in childhood.

Mrs. Hotger was a member of the Pleasant View United Methodist Church before for many years before transferring her membership to the First United Methodist Church in Newton in 1976.

She was a member of the 4-0 Sunday School Class, the United Methodist Women and the WHM Club.

The daughter of William and Carrie Birkenholtz Eichner, she was born July 6, 1907 at Killduff and attended Killduff schools and Newton Community High School, from which she was graduated.

She resided on a farm east of Newton from 1937 until 1972 when she moved to Newton.

She taught in rural Jasper County schools for many years.

She was married April 3, 1929 at Killduff.

Newton Daily News, Newton, IA., October 16, 1977