HOOTMAN, May Anna or Anna May Williams 1912 - 1928

HOOTMAN, WILSON, STONE, STEVER, WILLIAMS, HOAGE, DOROTHY

Posted By: Richard K. Thompson (email)
Date: 4/21/2011 at 20:59:58

Fairfield Daily Ledger
Monday February 13, 1928
Pg. 1 Col. 6

MRS. W. HOOTMAN PASSES AWAY

Will Be Buried Tomorrow With Services At Hoskins Funeral Home

Mrs. Walter HOOTMAN died yesterday afternoon at 4:30 oclock at the Jefferson County hospital. She and her new-born baby will be buried together tomorrow when funeral services will be held at the Hoskins Funeral home at 2:30 oclock in charge of Rev. R.H. Polly. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery.

Mrs. HOOTMAN was 15 years 9 months and 3 days old and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. WILLIAMS living in West End Addition. Besides her parents she leaves three brothers and three sisters as follows: Mrs. Henry HOAGE of Rock Island, Mrs. Thomas DOROTHY, Aletha, Paul, Kenneth, Edwin.

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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Wednesday Feb. 15, 1928
Pg. 1

LAST RITES FOR MRS. W. HOOTMAN

Held Yesterday Afternoon At Hoskins Funeral Home; Burial At Evergreen

Funeral services for Mrs. Walter HOOTMAN and baby Phyllis (sic. spelled Phylissis on her inscription/headstone) May, were held yesterday afternoon at Hoskins Funeral home in charge of Rev. R. H. Polly. Interment was in Evergreen cemetery.

The pall bearers were: Ralph WILSON, Loney STONE, Porter, Kenneth and Gene HOOTMAN. Music was furnished by Miss Mary STEVER and Mrs. William STEVER.

* Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Iowa. Public Grounds Row 7 Space 4.

Note: Jefferson County genealogy sources have the given name as Anna May (which is how it is recorded on her 1928 death record). However, a 1920 U.S. Census has her name as "May A.". The name Anna is not on the headstone inscription. Will use "May Anna WILLIAMS HOOTMAN" for this entry with the caution that the first two given names may vary in sources, transposed with each other.

Born in Iowa according to the same 1920 census.

The headstone on this plot is double engraved. The east facing is for "May WILLIAMS HOOTMAN". The west facing is engraved "Infant PHYLISSIS MAY 1928" for the infant daughter that died at the same time as her mother. As noted above, though, the child's name used in the last rites story was "Phyllis May".