Edith Rose Hammans

HAMMANS, MOFFATT, HEITSHUSEN, WHITEHEAD, ANGUS, LEWIS

Posted By: Ruth McDowell (email)
Date: 12/5/2010 at 18:03:43

Winterset Madisonian 7 Nov. 1990

Services were held Mon., Nov 5 at the United Methodist Church, Earlham, for Edith Rose Hammans, 70. Rev. Stewart Brooks officiated. Hammans died November 2 of cancer.

The daughter of Alex and Elsie Moffatt, she was born November 4, 1919 near Mt. Ayr. She was a graduate of Mt. Ayr High School and Ottawa University. In 1942 she married Elton Hammans. She was a music teacher for thirty years, retiring in December, 1978. She resided on a farm near Lorimor until 1965 at which time she moved into Earlham. During her lifetime, she was a member of Mt. Ayr Baptist Church, then the United Methodist Church in Lorimor and finally the Earlham United Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Order of Eastern Star and W.S.C.S.

She was preceded in Death by a son, a granddaughter and a brother.

Survivors include her husband Elton of Earlham; two daughters, Janet Kay Heitshusen of Houston, Tex. and Phyllis Fay Whitehead of New Berlin, Wis.; two sisters Ruth Angus of Mt. Ayr ad Esther Lewis of Sarasota, Fla; three granddaughters and one grandson.