Hazel Marie Thorson (-2006)

THORSON, COUSER, DAVIS, STEVENS, COZZENS, LAWSON, CHASE, BEHN

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 2/3/2008 at 12:31:25

THE STORY CITY HERALD, Story City, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, November 29, 2006.

Hazel Marie Thorson, 91, of St. Charles, Missouri, passed away Friday, Nov. 17, 2006, at Parkside Meadows Retirement Center in St. Charles after being hospitalized for four weeks. Hazel was a homemaker.

She was a member for 50 years of the United Methodist Church in Williams. She was church treasurer for 17 years and a member and officer of United Methodist Women. She taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. She was an active 4-H member and received the Story County 4-H Citizenship Award. As an adult Mrs. Thorson was a 4-H leader for the Williams Hustling Homemakers for 20 years and received the Hamilton County 4-H Alumni Award. She was a longtime member and officer of the Federated Women's Club in Williams.

Hazel was preceded in death by her husband Melburne "Mel" Peter Thorson, her parents Arthur and Daisy Couser; three sisters Lola Davis, Alice Stevens, and Ilo Cozzens; and two brothers Luther Couser and Chet Couser.

She is survived by one daughter, Lois and husband Russell Lawson of St. Charles, Missouri; and one son, Delmar and wife Virginia Thorson of Merced, California; three granddaughters, Cindy "Cid" and husband Rob Chase, Kathleen Thorson of Burbank, California, and Lesli and husband Brian Behn of Merced, California; two grandsons, Mark and wife Pam Lawson of Chesterfield, Missouri, and Eric and wife Christy Thorson of Sacramento, California; two great-granddaughters, Kirsten Lawson and Aiyana Chase, one grandson, Zachary Lawson; and one sister, Evelyn and husband Charles Davis of Clemons, Iowa.

Memorial services were held Saturday, Nov. 25, at 1:00 p.m. at United Methodist Church of the Shepherd, 4116 McClay Road, St. Charles, Missouri 63301. Memorial services will be held at a later date at the United Methodist Church in Williams, Iowa. Memorial contributions may be made to Make a Wish Foundation, 1324 North Rock Hill Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63124 or the United Methodist Church, Williams, Iowa. Arrangements by The Neptune Society of St. Louis, Missouri.