HAMILTON, Eva Elizabeth 1921-2005

HAMILTON, BAUMENT, STANLEY, SLAVEN, CHENEY, SANDERS PIDIMA, DUGGER, MOLYNEUX

Posted By: Mary F (email)
Date: 12/8/2013 at 11:41:19

Eva Elizabeth Hamilton, 84, of What Cheer, died July 19 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. Services were July 22 at Harden Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Frances Baumert of The What Cheer Christian Church officiating. Interment followed at Sixteen Cemetery near Thornburg.

Eva was born on May 2l, 1921 in Gibson, the daughter of Oscar "Bub" and Mary "Bessie" Stanley Slaven. She was educated in Gibson and graduated from the Gibson High School in 1938.

On April 24, 1939 she was united in marriage to James Hamilton in Lancaster, Mo. Eva and Jim started their lives together on a farm southeast of What Cheer.

Eva worked for the telephone company in What Cheer and Sigourney as a switchboard operator, for Grahams, at ASCS office, at the Keokuk County Court House, for Sears in Oskaloosa and for Coast-To-Coast in Sigourney. Eva's enjoyments included crafts, sewing, making quilts, and ceramics. She was a member of the Women's Club in Sigourney.

Eva's memory is honored by her daughter, Judy Cheney and her husband, Kenneth "Bud", a sister, Mary Sanders, three grandchildren, Jeannie Pidima and Marvin and Roger Cheney, and five great-grandchildren, Chelsey and Cale Pidima and Mary, Michael and Ryan Cheney.

Her parents, her husband two sisters, Grayce Dugger and Helen Molyneux and a granddaughter, Crystal Cheney, preceded Eva in death.

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