Lillian HOCKENBERRY

HOCKENBERRY, TOPPIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/16/2006 at 20:46:00

Mason City Globe-Gazette; Thursday, April 6, 1939, p. 19, col. 1-2:

DIES SUDDENLY OF HIP INJURY

Lillian Hockenberry, Goldfield (Wright, Iowa) Principal, Succumbs at Hospital. Lillian Hockenberry, 64, principal of the junior high school at Goldfield, died at a local hospital at 8:15 o'clock Wednesday night, following an illness of about six weeks. She was convalescing from a hip fracture when death occurred suddenly. Miss Hockenberry had been teaching at Goldfield since 1922. She was born Dec. 12, 1874 at Sigourney (Keokuk, Iowa). She was a graduate of Grinnell college and Iowa State Teachers college. During the summer months she had resided with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Toppin, Mason City. She was a member of the P. E. O. Surviving Miss Hockenberry are her sister, Mrs. Toppin, Mason City, and five nieces, Helen Toppin, Mason City; Mrs. Leslie Clemons, Thornton; Mrs. Raymond Doolittle, Winnebago, Minn.; Ruth Toppin, Mason City, and Mrs. Nellie Davis, Kansas City, Mo.; and five nephews, Morris Toppin, Winnebago, Minn.; Harland and Paul Toppin, Clear Lake; Charles Hockenberry, California; and Harland Hockenberry, Kansas City, Mo. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the McAuley and Son funeral home Saturday morning at 10 o'clock with the Rev. C. E. Flynn, pastor of the First Methodist church, in charge. The body will be taken overland to Montezuma (Poweshiek, Iowa) where an interment service will be held at the grave at 3 o'clock.