Evelyn Mae (Hartwig) ABELE

HARTWIG, ABELE, HOLCK, MEYER, EDMUNDS, ODONNELL, GREIMANN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/19/2008 at 11:33:40

Mason City Globe Gazette
7/29/1995

KLEMME -- Evelyn Mae Abele, 73, of Klemme, died Wednesday (July 26, 1995) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Jerry Robertson officiating. Burial will be in Ell Township Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2 to 8:30 p.m. today at Tenold Funeral Home, and one hour prior to service time Saturday at the church.

Evelyn Mae (Hartwig) Abele, the daughter of Oscar Hartwig and Lula Holck Hartwig, was born July 8, 1922, near Kanawha. She was raised on a farm west of Kanawha and united in marriage to Harold Abele on July 16, 1940. They have been married 55 years. They farmed south of Klemme and moved into Klemme five years ago. She was a member of United Methodist Church, Klemme, and was past president of U.M.W. for four years. She enjoyed her family, crocheting and reading.

She is survived by her husband, Harold, of Klemme; two daughters, Linda Meyer and husband, Roger, Goodell, and Virginia Edmunds and husband, Fred, Richmond, Texas; three sons, John Abele and wife, Patricia, Klemme; Robert Abele and wife, Janet, Garner, and David Abele and wife, LaDonn, Klemme; grandchildren, Douglas Abele, Dennis Abele, Deanna Abele, Grant Abele, Brent Abele, Jeff Edmunds, Darci Edmunds, and Ryan Meyer; step-grandchildren, Angela O'Donnell, Bobbi Mary and Joseph Mary; two great-grandchildren; one sister, Dorothy Greimann, Milan, Mo.; and one brother, Charles Hartwig, Kanawha. She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, one brother and three grandchildren.