Hodgson, Blanche C. 1898-1998

HODGSON, EASTON

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Date: 2/6/2006 at 21:33:29

From the LeMars Sentinel, Tuesday, March 31, 1998, Page A5, Column 1:

Obituaries--Blanche C. Hodgson

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D.--Blanche C. Hodgson, 99, of Wessington Springs, S.D. died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1998, at the Weskota Manor Nursing Home.

The former Blanch (sic-Blanche) C. Easton was born Nov. 22, 1898, at LeMars, the daughter of George R. and Ruth (Alderson) Easton. She attended rural school near Merrill. She moved to Jerauld County in South Dakota with her parents in 1910. She completed the eighth grade in Madden School, Media Township. That fall she enrolled in Wessington Springs High School, graduating with the class of 1917. She taught school in Media Township for two years.

On Dec. 31, 1919, she married George E. Hodgson at LeMars. They lived on George's father's farm south of LeMars. In 1923 they moved to a farm in Pleasant Township, south of Wessington Springs, S.D. In 1967 they moved into Wessington Springs.

Their home was open to nieces LaVonne Breland Wahl and Beverly Breland Mohling after their mother died.

Blanche was a member of the Templeton United Church of Christ and took an active part in church and community activities. She received the Eminent Homemaker Award in 1959 from South Dakota State University in Brookings. After her husband's death in 1981, she moved to an apartment.

Survivors include one daughter-in-law, Evelyn Hodgson of Sioux Falls, S.D.; one son-in-law, Robert Miller of Madison, S.D.; seven grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Merlin; a daughter, Ruth Ann; three brothers; four sisters; and one brother and two sisters in infancy.

Funeral services were held Feb. 14, at the United Church of Christ in Wessington Springs with the Rev. Jim Schatz officiating. Burial was in the Hope Cemetery, rural Wessington Springs.

Pallbearers were Charles Bergeleen, Roger Dywer, Keith Robbins, Cecil Deneke, Thad Moody and Dick Easton.