Myrtle Vivian (Evans) HANNA

HANNA, HANSON, SOWDER, EVANS, EAMES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/11/2008 at 22:02:51

Mason City Globe Gazette
May 15, 2005

FOREST CITY — Myrtle V. Hanna, 89, of Forest City, died Saturday (May 14, 2005) at USA Healthcare in Mason City. Her funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Petersen Lund Funeral Home, 505 N. Clark St., in Forest City with the Rev. Barb Spaulding, pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Grant Township Cemetery in rural Woden, Iowa. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Monday and continue until time of the service.

Myrtle Vivian (Evans) Hanna, the daughter of Edward I. and Gunel (Hanson) Evans, was born on November 8, 1915, on the family farm east of Dows, Iowa. She attended country school near her home. She lived at home with her parents and her brothers for a few years then moved to Chicago where she worked briefly in a factory. In 1940 she entered beauty school to become a beautician.
Myrtle moved to Forest City in 1942 and began working as a beautician at the Dainty Maid Salon. She later owned and managed her own salon.

On April 4, 1956, she married Gordon Oren Hanna. To this union a daughter, Colette, was born. The family lived for a time in Woden and in Dows before settling in Forest City in 1966.

Myrtle began working for Winnebago Industries in the Stitchcraft area in 1971. She continued there until her retirement in December of 1977. Myrtle was an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City. She loved to help with Do Day, making quilts with the other ladies of her church. She was seen walking many places to and from town. Her passion was for her flower gardens, quilting, sewing and crocheting.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Colette and John Sowder of Forest City; two grandchildren, April Eames of Nevada, Iowa, and Preston Sowder of Ames; a brother, Edward E. Evans of Florence, Ariz., and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, six brothers, her husband and a grandson.

Petersen Lund Funeral Home, Forest City