Evelyn Hackmann 1908 - 1998

HACKMANN, QUAINTANCE, MANSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 2/14/2017 at 14:09:14

Sioux City Journal
15 March 1998

Evelyn Hackmann, 89, of Sioux City died Wednesday at a local nursing home after a long illness.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church with the Rev. Martha Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. today with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at Christy, Smith and Hockenberry Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hackmann was born on August 19, 1908, in Slayton, Minnesota, the daughter of Charles J and Iva M. (Quaintance) Manson. She lived in Canton, S.D. until she was 6 months old and then moved to Sioux City. She attended Cooper Elementary, East Jr. and Central High School, graduating in 1927. She then attended Sioux City Normal College and Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. Following graduation from College, she lived in Pisgah, Iowa from 1929 to 1932 where she taught first grade. She married Theodore H. Hackmann on June 1, 1932, in Elk Point, S.D. The couple lived in Logan, Iowa from 1932 to 1943 when they returned to Sioux City. She taught in the Sioux City Community Schools from 1945 until her retirement in 1970. He died March 12, 1998.

She was a member of Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and had been the church treasurer for several years.

Survivors include a son, Duane G. of Arlington, Iowa; a sister, Mertie Knudson of Sioux City; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by two sisters, Zoe and Verlyn.

Memorials may be directed to Rustin Avenue United Methodist Church.