Mary Thuman 1836-1960

THUMAN, HAYEN, DEWITT, GRANT, SKALSKY, HEDDEN, REIKEN, TOBIASSEN

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 3/25/2020 at 07:17:54

October 13, 1960 - The Anamosa Eureka

Mrs. Mary Thuman, 74, Anamosa, died Sunday, Oct. 9, at an Iowa City hospital, where she had been a patient for ten days.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 2 p.m., at Wayne Zion Lutheran church. Burial was in Oakwood cemetery, Monticello. Goettsch Funeral home, Anamosa, was in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers included John August, Carl Husman, Allan Siebels, Louie Hayen and Lawrence Rieken.

She was born Feb. 9, 1886, daughter of Henry and Catherine Harms Hayen, Wayne township, Jones county. She was married to Carl H. Thuman, May 2, 1905. Couple farmed in Wayne township and near Amber until Mr. Thuman's death in 1931.

Since her husband's death she had lived at Fairview and had been employed as a housekeeper for Chris Bendixen, Anamosa, for the last several years.

Survivors include three daughters, Gladys, Mrs. Phillip DeWitt, Clinton; Hattie, Mrs. John Grant, Anamosa; and Lorene, Mrs. Melvin Skalsky, Mechanicsville; and one son, Willis Thuman, Stone City.

Other survivors include three sisters, Meta Hedden, Mrs. William Reiken and Mrs. Rudy Tobiassen, all of Monticello; and two brothers, John Hayen and Henry Hayen, both of Monticello; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband and two sisters.