Hazel Maxine (Smith) Stewart (2007)

DAWSON, FORRET, HAZEN, HOULETTE, KELLY, LOOSE, OLSON, RHOADES, SHEPHERD, SMITH, STEWART, WOLFE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 5/15/2007 at 12:10:17

Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Saturday, May 5, 2007

HAZEL MAXINE STEWART, Earlham

Hazel Maxine Stewart, 84 of Earlham, died at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines on Thursday. She was a two time cancer survivor and succumbed to a third cancer, May 3, 2007.

Mrs. Stewart was born in Van Meter on February 28, 1923 to A.C. and Anna (Forret) Smith. Hazel graduated from Van Meter Community School and AIB business school in Des Moines. Hazel was a 1940 Des Moines Register All-State Girls’ Basketball Team Selection.

She married Roy J. Stewart, also of Van Meter, at Fort Meade, Maryland in 1943. To this union were born four daughters and a son. They lived and farmed near Van Meter until 1963, when they purchased a farm north of Earlham. She was a Women's District Farm Bureau Chairman and a member of the Sunshine Circle.

She loved her family, playing cards, gardening and watching basketball and football. She is survived by her husband Roy, Children: Diana (John) Houlette of Des Moines; Gwen (Richard) Rhoades of Topeka, KS; Mary (Sam) Shepherd of Riverside; Lyle (Cherylann) of Marengo, Ann (Jim) Wolfe of Taylorville, IL; three sisters: Alice Hazen of Winterset, Margaret Olson of Urbandale, Mary Ann Dawson of Dallas Center; twelve grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, sisters' Louise Smith, Agnes Loose, Irene Kelly and brothers' Alfred and Robert Smith.

Her funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 am Monday at St. John's Catholic Church south of Adel, of which she was a member. Burial will be at the Van Meter Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to her church, the Earlham Rescue or the American Cancer Society.

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