Emma L. (Kneen) Hawkins (1944)

KNEEN, HAWKINS, ROSITTER, RICE, TIPPLE, IMBODEN, SHELDON, MANATT, BRATTON, BAILEY, DAVIS, EDDY, MORRIS

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Date: 7/16/2006 at 11:09:42

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
November 1944

EMMA L. KNEEN

Emma L. Kneen, eldest daughter of twelve children of Thomas and Elizabeth Kneen, was born at Williamsburg, Iowa county, Iowa, January 21, 1859 and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Imboden with whom she had made her home for the past five years, in Madison county, Monday evening, November 13 at the age of 85 years, 10 months and 12 days.

At the age of four with her parents she moved to Delmar in Clinton county, Iowa, where she spent her childhood and grew to womanhood. She attended the rural schools and was graduated from Delmar high. After graduation she taught in the rural schools for nine years in Clinton and Jackson counties.

It was in the year 1886 that she was united in marriage to A. A. Hawkins at Delmar, Iowa, and to this union were born nine children, two boys and seven girls. Three of the daughters; Mercy E. Paulina and Alma, died in early childhood. One son, Gilbert W., a veteran of World War I, U. S. Navy, Yeoman, 1st class, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 9th, 1939 in the Veterans hospital in Des Moines.

Those surviving are; three step-daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Rositter, Low Moor, Iowa; Alice Rice, Waurika, Oklahoma; and Bertha Tipple of Delmar, Iowa. Five children, Mrs. Ruth Imboden of Earlham; A. O. Hawkins, Freemont, Nebraska; Mrs. Olive Sheldon of Des Moines; Mildred Hawkins of Woodward; and Mary Manatt of Los Gatos, California.
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Earlham Echo - Thursday, November 23, 1944

Emma L. Kneen, eldest daughter of twelve children of Thomas and Elizabeth Kneen, was born at Williamsburg, Iowa county, Iowa, January 21, 1859 and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Imboden with whom she had made her home for the past five years, in Madison county, Monday evening, November 13 at the age of 85 years, 10 months and 12 days.

At the age of four with her parents she moved to Delmar in Clinton county, Iowa, where she spent her childhood and grew to womanhood. She attended the rural schools and was graduated from Delmar high. After graduation she taught in the rural schools for nine years in Clinton and Jackson counties.

It was in the year 1886 that she was united in marriage to A. A. Hawkins, at Delmar, Iowa, and to this union were born nine children, two boys and seven girls. Three of the daughters, Mercy E., Paulina, and Alma, died in early childhood. One son Gilbert W., a veteran of World War I, U.S. Navy(Yeoman, 1st class), passed away on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 in the Veterans hospsital in Des Moines.

Those surviving are: three step-daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Rositter, Low Moor, Iowa; Alice Rice, Waurika, Oklahoma; and Bertha Tipple of Delmar, Iowa. Five children, Mrs. Ruth Imboden, Earlham; A. O. Hawkins, Freemont, Nebraska; Mrs. Olive Sheldon, of Des Moines; Mildred Hawkins, of Woodward; and Mary Manatt, of Los Gatos, California.

Mrs. Hawkins was a true christian woman. Her life was one of indescribable beauty--filled with good deeds, boundless courage, and sweet smiles. She loved everyone, enjoyed everything good, lived life to the fullest extent, giving and taking all that life offered. She was converted early in life and united with the Methodist church of which she was a life member. Her membership was in the Earlham church at the time of her death.

She was a true and faithful wife. A Kind and loving mother, always wanting her children and grandchildren around her. No sacrifice was too great for her to make for her family. She loved her home and enjoyed the beauties of nature and gained much pleasure and satisfaction from her flowers. One of her greatest delights was to share her flowers with others and to place a bouquet on the altar of her church each Sunday throughout the year.

In addition to the eight children and twenty-two grandchildren there are seven brothers and sister who mourn the loss of this christian woman. William T. of California; Ida E. Bratton of Lawrens, Iowa; Fannie A. Bailey, of Cleveland, Ohio; May M. Davis of Oklahoma; James, of Woonsocket, South Dakota; Bertha Eddy, of White Water, Wisconsin; and Ellen Morris, of Oklahoma.

Interment was made in the Earlham cemetery by the side of her husband who passed away in 1915.