McFate, Hattie 1891-1985

MCFATE, RIEDASCH, HINK, BERRY, LEMKE, KAISAND, JANTZEN, PETERSEN, DEEDRICK

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 7/11/2013 at 07:53:15

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
March 21, 1985

HATTIE MCFATE SERVICES HELD

Hattie McFare, 93, of 1114 West St., Grinnell, died Monday morning, March 18, at her home.

Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Smith Funeral Home, with the Rev. William Lawson, pastor of the Northside Friends Church, officiating. Organist was Alice Renaud, and pallbearers were Lyle Berry, Paul Borchert, Robert Hamilton, Leonard Heinselman, Jack Kinnaird and Waldo Paul.

Burial was in Hazelwood Cemetery. Donations to the Hattie McFate Memorial Fund may be sent in care of the Smith Funeral Home.

The daughter of John and Caroline Riedasch Hink, she was born March 24, 1891, in Sheridan township. She attended the Chester Township No. 7 School.

In 1911 she moved to Grinnell and cared for her parents. She also was employed at the Grinnell Glove Factory and later in the office of a Grinnell physician, Dr. Padgham.

On Feb. 21, 1925, she was married to Orville Allen McFate at Hampton. The couple lived in Grinnell.

Mrs. McFate is survived by one sister, Sylvia Berry of Brooklyn. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers, John, George and Harry Hink; and five sisters, Minnie Lemke, Mattie Kaisand, Katheryn Jantzen, Elizabeth Petersen and Frances Deedrick.