HANNAM, Lavina Amelia Anna (nee Beyer) 1907-1999
HANNAM, BEYER, LEMKE
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/30/2009 at 19:22:41
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Lavina Amelia Anna (Beyer) Hannam, age 92, of St. Ansgar, Iowa died Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999 at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home in Stacyville, Iowa.
Service: 2 p.m. Monday, at the St. Peter Lutheran Church, Toeterville, Iowa with the Rev. Daniel Wee officiating.
Interment: St. Ansgar Cemetery, St. Ansgar, Iowa.
Visitation: Friends may call on Sunday from 4-7 p.m. at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, 207 South School Street, St. Ansgar, Iowa.
[October 22, 1999 edition of the Austin Daily Herald]
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NOTE: According to Soc. Sec. Death Index, Lavina was born May 29, 1907.NOTE: Father was Albert William Beyer, and mother was Martha A. Lemke Beyer.
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#2:LAVINA AMELIA ANNA (BEYER) HANNAM
ST. ANSGAR - Lavina Amelia Anna (Beyer) Hannam, 92, of St. Ansgar, died Thursday (Oct. 21, 1999) at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home in Stacyville where she had lived for a year and a half.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Toeterville, with the Rev. Daniel Wee officiating. Burial will be in the St. Ansgar Cemetery, St. Ansgar.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, 207 South School St., St. Ansgar.
Lavina Amelia Anna (Beyer) Hannam was born May 29, 1907, to Albert W. and Martha (Lemke) Beyer. She was one of a family of 12 children, born on a farm in Newburg Township, Mitchell County, Iowa.
She was baptized on July 14, 1907, in St. John's Lutheran Church in Rock Township, Mitchell County, by Pastor Johannes Becker. She was confirmed on April 9, 1922, at St. John's Lutheran Church by Pastor John Gemachlich. She spent her childhood on the farm where she was born and attended school in Newburg Township.
She worked at various places until her marriage to Herbert Hannam at the Methodist parsonage in St. Ansgar, Iowa, by the Rev. I.S. Haverfield on August 3, 1926. Five children were born to this union. They lived on several farms before settling on a farm near Toeterville, where she was a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one son, Duane; brothers, George, Julius, Joseph, August, William and Albert; sisters, Ida Teal, Selma Kittleson, Hilda Stonehocker and Ruth Beyer, who died in infancy; and one great-granddaughter, Leslie Thrond.
Survivors include her four children, Herbert Hannam and his wife, Gertrude, of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, Darlene Anderson and her husband, Robert, of Wichita, Kansas, Eugene Hannam and his wife, Shirley, of LeRoy, Minnesota, and Harlan Hannam and his wife, Arlys, of Coralville; one daughter-in-law, Norma Hannam, of St. Ansgar; 19 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Hedwig Bork, of St. Ansgar.
Memorials are suggested to the St. Ansgar First Responders or St. Peter Lutheran Church, Toeterville.
Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (515) 736-4920.
Globe Gazette, Oct. 23, 1999
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#3:Photo of Lavina from MITCHELL COUNTY PICTORIAL ATLAS, 1977.
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