Lois Lucille (Hammon) BLAKEWELL

BLAKEWELL, HAMMON, NUEHRING, GREMMER, RODBERG, PLATTS, ROOF, NOVAK, MARKWARDT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/3/2009 at 09:20:16

CLEAR LAKE, IA - Lois Lucille Blakewell, 77, of 13431 Killdeer Ave., died Saturday (April 28, 2001) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at United Methodist Church in Clear Lake with the Rev. Frederick Lewis officiating. Burial will take place at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, and will continue one hour prior to the services at the church Tuesday.

Lois Lucille (Hammon) Blakewell was born March 13, 1924, near Garner. She was the daughter of Sam and Gertrude (Nuehring) Hammon. She graduated from Garner High School in 1941. Lois married Clair Blakewell on June 22, 1942, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. The couple lived and worked on a farm near Burchinal from 1950 until they retired in 1978. Lois continued to live on the family farm until her death. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, the Esther Circle and the OWESO Club. She did lots of handwork, making quilts for many of her grandchildren, birth samplers for her great-grandchildren and embroidered dish towels as wedding and birthday gifts.

Lois is survived by her husband, Clair Blakewell, Clear Lake; eight children and their spouses, Marcella and Bill Gremmer of Forest Lake, Minn., Milo and Norene Blakewell of Burchinal, Mary and Harlan Rodberg of Forest City, Marlin and Sharon Blakewell of Clear Lake, Milton and Francis Blakewell of Mason City, Margie and Larry Platts of Mason City, Marilyn and Ron Roof of Algona, and Mike Blakewell of Clear Lake; 26 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; her twin brother, Lynn Hammon of Spring Valley, Minn.; one sister, Doris Novak of Fertile; and two sisters-in-law, Olive Hammon, Spring Valley, Minn., and Iona Markwardt of Clear Lake. She was preceded in death by her parents; two grandchildren in infancy; her brother, Wayne Hammon; a sister-in-law, Nellie Hammon; and two brothers-in-law, Henry Novak and Harold Markwardt. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
April 30, 2001