Nettie Alice (Chase) DELAHOYDE

DELAHOYDE, CHASE, LANGE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/1/2008 at 13:45:40

Clear Lake Mirror Reporter, IA
April 2005

Nettie Alice Delahoyde, 96, died early Tuesday morning, March 29, 2005 at I.O.O.F. Home. A funeral service was held Thursday, March 31, at the Major Erickson Funeral Home, Mason City, with the Rev. Keith Scott of Wesley Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in Elmwood-St. Joseph's Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the Nettie Delahoyde Fund.

Nettie was born to Fred and Eva (Lange) Chase on June 22, 1908 in Goodell, Iowa. She attended Goodell schools and graduated from Mason City High School. She then attended St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, graduating in 1929. She worked as an R.N. doing private and general duty at the Park and Mercy Hospitals. During a time in 1934 she was employed as the Public Health Nurse in Mason City. On Dec. 22, 1936 she was married to Howard Delahoyde in Canton, S.D. She continued working at the hospitals while her husband was in the service during WWII. After his discharge from the service they moved with their two children to the I.O.O.F. Home in Aug. of 1946. Mr. Delahoyde began his duties as the superintendent of the building and grounds while Nettie worked as a R.N. at the I.O.O.F. Home and also assisted her husband with his duties. After the death of her husband on June 26, 1966, Nettie moved to Clear Lake and worked at Ritters Oakwood Manor until retiring on Oct. 30, 1980. She was a member of Wesley Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Mercy Hospital Nurse's Alumni, Queen Rebekah Lodge, and was a former member of the Mason City Police Auxiliary. Nettie enjoyed reading, playing the piano, working in the lodge, and watching "The Grand Ole Opry" on television.

She is survived by her two sons, Bruce Delahoyde and Fredrick Delahoyde, both of Clear Lake; a brother, Jesse Chase and his wife, Helen, of Mason City. She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard; parents; three brothers and two sisters.