Pearl Ella Anna (Ernst) Hahn 1926 - 2014
ERNST, HAHN, LAUMBACH
Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/16/2014 at 12:32:29
Sioux City Journal
12 October 2014MAPLETON, Iowa | Pearl E. Hahn, 88, of Mapleton passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, Oct. 9, 1014, at her home of natural causes.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Peter’s United Church of Christ in Mapleton, with the Rev. Don Studley officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery at Mapleton. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., with the Rev. Harvey Hansen officiating, at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.
Pearl Ella Anna (Ernst) Hahn began her life’s journey June 20, 1926, on the family farm east of Mapleton, the third and youngest child of Julius and Anna (Laumbach) Ernst and sister of Fern and Herbert Ernst. She was baptized in St. Peter’s Evangelical Church on Aug. 15, 1926, and confirmed in April 1940. She received her education in the rural school system known as the Rush Creek School.
She was a woman from a time when being a homemaker was a proud vocation. Pearl learned to work on the family farm at an early age and realized it was hard work milking cows, how to drive a team of horses, and to pick corn by hand. They plowed with a John Deere tractor; thus Pearl was known to say John Deere green was her favorite color.
She knew she didn’t want to marry a farmer, so when Norman Hahn was home on furlough, he asked Pearl out. He was so handsome in his Army uniform, Pearl hung on. When he got discharged, they dated and were married Feb. 5, 1950, in St. Peter’s Evangelical Church by the Rev. Elmer Otte. To this union, a son, Ronald Hahn, was born. Norman passed away May 29, 1991.
Pearl was a faithful member of St. Peter’s U.C.C., where she participated in the Women’s Fellowship and other church activities. She kept a diary since she was 19 years old, and she was often able to tell what occurred on a certain date if she was asked.
Survivors include her son, Ronald Hahn of Mapleton; a granddaughter, Kacee Hahn, also of Mapleton; four great-grandchildren, Daniel, Michael, Kaytlin and Jordan; several sisters-in-law; brothers-in-law; nieces and nephews; and friends including two special friends, Dorothy Zediker and Waldo Rickert.
Along with her loving husband, Norman, Pearl was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Herbert Ernst; her sister, Fern Schnoor; her husband, Fred; and nieces and nephews.
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