Hauser, Lewis 1879-1968

HAUSER, LINDSEY, HAUSWALD

Posted By: Mary Holub, volunteer (email)
Date: 12/24/2013 at 12:52:09

From: Le Mars Daily Sentinel, September 13, 1968

Merrill weatherman found dead; stricken at wheel

Lewis Hauser, 88, longtime Menill resident, died of an apparent heart attack Friday noon, while driving his car about three-quarters of a mile west of the Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative building on highway 75 south near Le Mars.

The Luken-Johnson ambulance was called at noon. Iowa Highway Patrolman, David Hays and the sheriffs office investigated. They reported Mr. Hauser was traveling west on the blacktop road when his car veered off across the opposite lane of traffic, passed between light poles and through a fence into a bean field at the John Ahrendsen farm.

Mr. Hauser was driving a late model car which did not appear to be badly damaged. Mr. and Mrs. Hauser were longtime weather reporters at Merrill. Mrs. Wallace Hemphill, Le Mars, is a daughter.

Verle Lehner, who lives west of the Ahrendsen farm, drove by and saw the car down in the bean field. He stopped at the nearby Ahrendsen farm house shortly after 11:45 and asked what had happened. It was reported the Ahrendsens didn't know about the car in the field, although the house is just a short distance away. Mr. Lehner and Mrs. Ahrendsen went to investigate and found Mr. Hauser dead in the vehicle, with the motor still running. Mrs. Ahrendsen called for the ambulance.

Mr. Lehner farms the land at the Ahrendsen farm.

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From: Le Mars Daily Sentinel, September 16, 1968

Lewis Hauser buried today

Funeral services for Lewis Nicholas Hauser, 88, lifetime Merrill resident, were held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Merrill United Methodist church.

Rev. D. J. Garrington officiated and burial was in Merrill Hillside cemetery under direction of the Mauer funeral home.

Mr. Hauser was born Oct. 24, 1879, at rural Merrill. He retired at Merrill as a rural mail carrier in 1935 and operated an elevator there from 1944 to 1959. The couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1967. They were well known as weather reporters there for 50 years, retiring in 1967.

He died Friday, Sept. 13, of an apparent heark attack while driving his car on a county blacktop road south of Le Mars.

His marriage to Ella B. Lindsey took place Sept. 18,1907, at rural Merrill. He was the son of the late Nicholas and Lillian Hauswald Hauser.

Survivors are his wife, Merrill; a daughter, Mrs. Wallace (Eileen) Hemphill, Le Mars and two grandchildren, Mrs. Edward Downing, Le Mars, and Merlyn Hemphill. Tacoma, Wash.; six great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Guy McMeeekin, Sioux City and Mrs. George Manz, Merrill.

Ho was preceded in death by a son, Orville; a brother, George Hauser, and two sisters, Mrs. James Howes and Mrs. LeRoy Dreblow.

Mr. Hauser was a member of the rural mall carriers club and Izaak Walton league.