Hazel Theovina (Forbes) Streit (1913-2015)

STREIT, FORBES, OLESEN, MONKELIEN, PETERSON, WODKA, STEINDORF, HULS

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 2/10/2015 at 21:48:15

From Stevens Memorial Chapel obituary, Ames, Story County, Iowa:

Hazel Theovina Forbes Streit, 101, passed away at home on January 26, 2015. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, February 2, 2015 at the Christ Community Church, 5501 George Washington Carver Ave. in Ames, Iowa. Visitation will be on Sunday, February 1st from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Stevens Memorial Chapel, 607 28th St., in Ames. Burial will be at the Clinton/Garfield cemetery in Rolfe, Iowa at a later date.

Hazel was born on January 31, 1913 to George and Hannah (Olesen) Forbes in Palo Alto County, Iowa the sixth of thirteen children. She spent much of her early life helping her mother, even postponing her schooling to care for her younger siblings. She graduated from Pocahontas High School in 1933 and in that same year, on July 3, married the love of her life Loell R. Streit. As a young wife and mother Hazel and her family lived in Pocahontas. In 1942 they moved to Des Moines where Hazel worked in an ordnance plant making bullets for World War II soldiers. Loell joined the Navy in 1943 and Hazel moved her family back to Pocahontas for the duration of the war. Upon his return the family relocated to St. Louis where Loell attended mortuary school. They returned to Iowa, eventually owning the Streit Funeral Home in Rolfe, Iowa. Loell's untimely death in 1964 brought Hazel to her second career as a housemother, first in Lincoln, Nebraska and then in Ames. She found a home with the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity at Iowa State University where she was "Mom Streit" to hundreds of young men over a span of nineteen years. In the summers she managed a staff of college age women at the Rustic Room restaurant at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado. Hazel retired in 1989 and became nanny to her great-granddaughters.

Hazel devoted her life to her family, her work and her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She loved spending time with her family, especially precious to her were her grandchildren, her siblings, her nieces and nephews and the Forbes reunions at Okoboji and in Colorado. Also precious to her were her dear friends in Christ who cared for her so deeply over the years. She will be remembered for her kind and generous heart, her diligent work and her love of Scripture and for her Savior.

Left to cherish her memory are her beloved daughter Kay Monkelien of Spencer, IA and son Gary (Sue) Streit of Florence, OR, grandchildren Sandra (Dan) Peterson of Ames, Sheryl Monkelien of Wellsboro, PA, Jeff Wodka of Plano, TX, Scott (Nanette) Monkelien of Stetsonville, WI, Gary Streit Jr. of Magnolia, TX and Christy (Craig) Steindorf of Spring, TX, great-grandchildren Annie (Brett) Huls, Emily Peterson, Sara Wodka, Jake Wodka, Kayla Monkelien, Krista Monkelien, Trent Steindorf, Chloe Steindorf and Logan Steindorf and great-great-grandchildren Conner and Clara Huls, and many special nieces and nephews.

Hazel was preceded in death by her husband Loell, her son-in-law Basil Monkelien, granddaughter Sue Wodka and her 12 siblings.

Memorials may be directed to the Christ Community Church in Ames, Iowa.

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