HILDEBRAND, Fannie Hope (HUGUS), 1892-1940

HUGUS, HILDEBRAND, EBERT, SMITH

Posted By: Betty Hootman-Volunteer
Date: 11/27/2012 at 12:27:17

MRS. FANNIE H. HILDEBRAND

Fannie Hope Hugus, only child of Hope and Nancy Ebert Hugus, was born in Birmingham, Iowa, Oct. 13, 1892, and passed away at her home 1 ¾ miles southwest of Fairfield Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1940, aged 48 years and 2 days.

She was married to Louis F. Hildebrand Dec. 19, 1916, and to them were born three daughters and one son, viz: Blanche Hope, a teacher in Jefferson county rural schools, Rosetta Mae Smith, Frances and Raymond, a student at Parsons college, all of whom reside at home, except Mrs. Mae Smith, who also resides in Fairfield and all survive her, together with her husband. She is also survived by her son-in-law and one grandchild.

Fannie, as she was familiarly called, spent all of her early life in Birmingham with her mother in the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Ebert, as her father passed away when she was a tiny babe. She was of sunny disposition and numbered her friends by her acquaintances. She graduated from Birmingham high school with the class of 1912 and began teaching in the rural Van Buren county schools then in the Lockridge public school where she met her future husband. They resided on a farm near Four Corners, Iowa, the greater part of their married life and later moved near Fairfield. She united with the Methodist church in Birmingham in early life but after her marriage transferred her membership to the Lutheran church at Four Corners.

She had been in ill health for a number of years and everything possible was done to restore her health, but of no avail. She was thought to be improving, until her sudden passing last Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Funeral services were held at the Weston Behner funeral home in Fairfield Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. E. A. Piper of the Fairfield Lutheran church. Burial was by the side of her parents in Maple Hill cemetery at Birmingham.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book B, page 10, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA