Rowena (Smith) Hormel (1870-1945)

SMITH, HORMEL, PRICE, BROWN, PIZER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal June 28, 1945 (page 1)

Mrs. Rowena Hormel, Maxwell Resident, Died Wednesday

Maxwell, June 28: Mrs. Rowena Hormel, 75, longtime resident of Maxwell, passed away Wednesday noon at the Mary Greeley hospital in Ames where she had been a patient for three days.

Funeral services will be held at the Maxwell Presbyterian church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the Iowa Center cemetery.

Mrs. Hormel, who was born in Missouri in 1870, is survived by four children: Alva of Anderson, Mo., Vinnie Price and Maude Brown of Ames and Pearl Dolph of Des Moines. She also leaves her grandson Paul Pizer of Maxwell who was raised in the Hormel home.

The husband and father passed away in December of 1929.

From Nevada Evening Journal July 3, 1945 (page 6)

Final Rites For Rowena Hormel Held at Maxwell

Maxwell, July 3--Funeral services for Mrs. Rowena Hormel, 75, widow of the late Benjamin Hormel, were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Presbyterian church with the pastor, Rev. David S. de Best, officiating. The altar and casket were banked with many beautiful floral offerings as tokens of the esteem in which she was held in the community. The flowers were cared for by Kathryn Mingle, Margaret Larson, and Veta Fair. A quartette, composed of Gerton Nelson, Mrs. Ray Gooden, Mrs. H. C. Larsen, and Doris Myers, sang two hymns, "Jesus Savior Pilot Me" and "The Old Rugged Cross." Mrs. Gooden, soloist, sang, "Memories of Mother."

The life sketch read in part by Rev. de Best.

Rowena Smith Hormel was born October 7, 1870, in Grundy county, Missouri. Her parents John and Sarah Smith, came to Iowa the same year. With the exception of four years spent in Nebraska, Iowa had been her home. On September 2, 1886, she was united in marriage to Benjamin Hormel. To this union four children were born Mrs. Pearl Dolph of Huxley, Mrs. Vinnie Price of Ames, Alva Hormel of Anderson, Mo., and Mrs. Emmett Brown of Ames.

Besides her children and the one grandchild, Paul Pizer, who was reared in the Hormel home, she is survived by two brothers, Thomas R. Smith of St. James, Minn. and Harry E. Smith, Madelia, Minn., twenty-five grandchildren and thirty-nine great grand children.

Interment was made in the family lot in the Iowa Center cemetery.