Hazel, Margaret 1856-1930

HAZEL, HOFFMAN

Posted By: Plymouth County Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/29/2003 at 20:35:19

LeMars Sentinel
Plymouth County, IA
Oct 14, 1930

DEATH CLAIMS OLD RESIDENT
MRS. MARGARET HAZEL HAD LIVED HERE SINCE SHE WAS A YOUNG GIRL

Death came very suddenly to Mrs. Margaret Hazel Thursday afternoon at her home, 207 Plymouth Street East, a resident of Plymouth county from early girlhood. She was 74 years of age.

Mrs. Hazel, who had been suffering from a numbness in her arm for a few days, was leaving her home with a son to step into a car to go to the office of a doctor when she collapsed.

Medical aid was summoned at once. A physician pronounced the stroke fatal. She died within two hours without regaining consciousness. Death was ascribed to cerebral hemorrhage.

Her sudden death came as a great shock to her relatives and friends. Mrs. Hazel was widely known having lived here practically since the town was founded and was connected by ties of blood and marriage with many of the pioneer families in this section of the country.

Mrs. Hazel was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Hoffman, who coming from Luxemburg, Europe, were early settlers in eastern Iowa and later pioneers in Plymouth county.

Margaret Hoffman was born near Dubuque, September 25, 1856, where she received her early training and education. In the early seventies she came with her parents to Le Mars. They took up land in Plymouth county and their daughter, Margaret, with other members of the family, shared the vicissitudes experienced by the pioneers and helped in the work on the land and in establishing a home on the raw prairie.

Margaret Hoffman, like other girls in the early settlement of the country, worked hard at home and in the homes of other early settlers when opportunity offered.

Attaining young womanhood she was united in marriage in Le Mars to George P. Hazel, May 1, 1878. They engaged in farming for some years. Later Mr. Hazel's health failed, prohibiting arduous work on the farm and they came to Le Mars and engaged in the grocery and confectionery business at their present location.

Mr. Hazel died in March, 1925, and since that time, with the exception of a year spent in Washington, Mrs. Hazel has continued the business.

Mrs. Hazel is survived by three sons and four daughters. They are Nicholas, Joseph P. and John Hazel, Mrs. Minnie Riter, of Le Mars; Mrs. Elizabeth Weineck of St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. Clifford Winslow and Mrs. Anna Kerney, of Spokane, Wash. She also leaves twelve grandchildren, and three sisters, who are Mrs. J. P. Beck, Remsen; Mrs. Peter Mich, of Granville, and Mrs. Anthone Thoma, of Le Mars.

Mrs. Hazel was a devoted wife and mother and a good neighbor, always willing to help those in need and many obtained necessities of life on pleas for credit at her store for which she never received a cent.

The funeral services were conducted Monday morning at St. Joseph's church in this city and were largely attended by relatives, old neighbors, and friends.