Zelma M. Huff (1912-2009)

HUFF, POST, STAHLMAN, OLSON, LYONS, GETTING, DEBRUYN

Posted By: Nevada Journal
Date: 11/27/2009 at 22:22:48

THE NEVADA JOURNAL, Nevada, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, November 25, 2009.

Zelma M. Huff, 97, of Nevada, Iowa, died Sunday, November 22, 2009, at Rolling Green Village in Nevada. Services will be at 10:30 AM, Saturday, November 28th at First United Methodist Church in Nevada with visitation from 6 to 8 PM, Friday at Bacon Funeral Home.

Zelma was born July 21, 1912 at Nevada, Iowa, the daughter of Claude James and Georgia Lois (Stahlman) Post. She grew up in Nevada and entered Kindergarten at the West School in Nevada at the age of 5 years. She was baptized at the age of 12 and has been a member of the United Methodist Church, Nevada for over fifty years. She attended Central School and High School in Nevada, graduating in 1930. She attended Iowa Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls, Iowa and taught school at the Wilderness School for 2 years. She worked in the clerical department of Donnelley Marketing for over twenty years.

She was united in marriage to Alexander Theodore Donald Olson on June 19, 1932 at the home of her parents in Nevada. He preceded her in death on September 9, 1985. She married Harold E. Huff in 1991 in Nevada. He preceded her in death in 1995.

Zelma was a long-time member of the Nevada First United Methodist Church, Order of the Eastern Star, the Solomen Dean Chapter of D.A.R, Billy Sunday Chapter of Questers, Methodist Quilters, Mary Circle of the United Methodist Church, several Bible study groups,and Child Study Club. She will be remembered for her beautiful china painting and the classes of china painting taught in her home. Zelma loved flower gardening, reading, bridge and all types of sewing, crocheting, knitting and quilting (having made and assisted making twenty-five quilts.)

She is survived by four sons: Donald E. (Marjorie) Olson of Sun City West, Arizona; Robert E. (Faye) Olson of Nevada, Iowa; Karl E. (Tressa) Olson of Scottsdale, Arizona; David (Shirley) Olson of Edina, Minnesota; one step-son: Galen (Virginia) Huff of Minnesota; nine grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; one sister: Arline Lyons of Tempe, Arizona and several cousins.

Zelma was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, one granddaughter: Rebecca Olson; two sisters: Jeanette Getting and Joan DeBruyn, and one brother: William Post.

Memorials may be given to First United Methodist Church in Nevada.

Bacon Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.

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