Margaret (Gerdes) HULSING

GERDES, HULSING, FREY, WIEMANN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/4/2008 at 12:12:15

Mason City Globe Gazette
02/20/1996

ROCKWELL, IA -- Margaret Hulsing, 90, of 126 Westview Drive, Rockwell, died Saturday (Feb. 17, 1996) at Rockwell Community Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Grace Baptist Church, Sheffield, with the Rev. Bruce Rulapaugh officiating. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. at the Meservey Cemetery, Meservey. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Grarup Funeral Home, Sheffield.

Margaret Hulsing was born on Oct. 21, 1905, in Meservey, the daughter of George and Tena (Wiemann) Gerdes. She attended school in the Meservey area. On Feb. 8, 1926, she was united in marriage to Carl Hulsing Sr. in the First Reformed Church of Meservey. They made their home farming in the North Iowa area until starting the family farmstead outside of Rockwell in 1944. In 1968, she and her husband retired and moved into Rockwell. She enjoyed doing crochet work making many items for her family and friends.

She was a member of Grace Baptist Church of Sheffield, along with its Women's Missionary Fellowship, White Cross Society and the Busy Bees. She also belonged to the Birthday Club and the Serving Club of Rockwell.

She is survived by one daughter, Lennetta Frey and her husband, Carl, of Sheffield; four sons, Carl Hulsing of Rockwell; Myron and his wife, Shirley, of Rockwell; Don and his wife, Virginia, of Rockwell, and Vern and his wife, Bev, of Mason City; 16 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, one daughter, six sisters and five brothers.