Hover, Norma Pearl (Greene) 1919 - 2018

HOVER, GREENE, WILLHARBOR, SOVEREIGN, BRIESLER, KRATZ, WIEDEMANN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:47

Norma Hover, age 99, of Ridgeway, IA, died on Monday, October 1, 2018 at Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah, IA.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, October 5, 2018 at Peace Lutheran Church, 745 County St., Ridgeway, IA, with Rev. Jeff Hansen presiding.

Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 4, 2018 at the Schluter-Balik Funeral Home, 604 South Ave in Decorah and also after 10:00 a.m., at the church on Friday morning.

In lieu of flowers, donations could be made to HoCA, Opportunity Homes or Peace Lutheran Church in Ridgeway.

Norma Pearl Hover was born on August 12, 1919 George and Pearl (Willharbor) Greene on a farm on Irish Ridge, seven miles from Boscobel, Wisconsin, in Crawford County. She attended a one room school near her home through seventh grade when the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin. She stayed with an aunt in Pheasant Branch, Wisconsin near Madison to finish her eighth-grade education. Then she entered Central High School in Madison. She graduated from Central High School in 1937 and worked in restaurants. During the WWII she worked at A.O. Smith in Milwaukee, Wisconsin doing airplane inventory in the office while military airplanes were being made. After the war ended, she stayed to do a final inventory and close the offices so that the plant could go back to making cars. She then went to St. Paul in 1952 and worked at the Oliver Corporation in the billing department when she met Maurice Hover. They married on November 8, 1953, at the Little Brown Church. Together they had four children. She worked as a cook and manager at the Cliff House Hotel for a number of years and then was a library aide at North Winneshiek School for five years. She then took a nurse’s aide course through Calmar and became a physical therapy aide at the Howard County Hospital for twelve years before retiring. When she and Maurice first married they farmed for many years. When Maurice retired from farming they moved to Ridgeway. She liked being with family, playing cards on her computer, reading and just being social.

Norma is survived by her children: Dale (Donna) Hover, Ames, IA; Randy (Lori) Hover, Dorchester, IA; Vicki (Gary) Sovereign, Cresco, IA; Mark (Jean) Hover, Cresco and Alan Greene, Decorah, IA. Four stepchildren: LaDean Breisler, St. Paul, MN; Patricia Kratz, Decorah, IA; Maurice Edward (Charilyn) Hover, Decorah, IA and David (Joannie) Hover, New Prague, MN. along with nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, eighteen step grandchildren, thirty-seven step great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

Norma was preceded in death by her husband Maurice in 1992. Parents: George and Pearl Greene. Step son: Quentin Hover in 1996. Sister and Brother-in-law: Elmer and Ruth Weidemann. A brother at birth and two step sons-in-law: Donald Breisler and Roger Kratz.

Source: Schluter - Balik Funeral Home database

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