Lydia E. (Pals) HEMMES

HEMMES, WOLTERS, PALS, COOK, HANSEN, LAUGHLIN, LOCK, VIERKANT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/9/2012 at 12:10:23

April 21, 1914 --- August 10, 2012

Lydia E. Hemmes, 98, died on Friday, August 10, 2012, at the Franklin General Nursing Facility in Hampton. Services were held on Tuesday, August 14, at the Zion Reformed Church, with burial in the church cemetery. Lydia was born on April 21, 1914 on a farm near Meservey, to Peter and Gesena Wolters Pals. She graduated from the Meservey High School in 1931. She attended college and then taught school in rural Cerro Gordo County. In 1939, she married William Hemmes of rural Hampton and they farmed in northeast Franklin County. Bill died in 1971. She is survived by two sons; a daughter; and brother, Andrew (Lucille) Pals of Meservey.

Belmond Independent - Belmond, Iowa
August 21, 2012

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HAMPTON - Lydia E. Hemmes, age 98, of Hampton and Latimer, passed away Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, at the Franklin General Hospital Nursing Facility in Hampton. Funeral services for Lydia E. Hemmes will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, at the Zion Reformed Church north of Latimer. Pastor Art Zewert will officiate. Burial will take place in the Zion Reformed Church cemetery. Visitation for Lydia E. Hemmes will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. today, Monday, Aug. 13, at the Dugger Funeral Home, 320 East S., Latimer, and continue one hour prior to the funeral at the church. In lieu of flowers the family wishes memorials be made in Lydia E. Hemmes' name to the Zion Reformed Church.

Lydia Hemmes was born April 21, 1914, to Peter H. and Gesena Wolters Pals on a farm near Meservey, Iowa. She graduated from Meservey Consolidated School where she was valedictorian of the Class of 1931. The same year she graduated from Heidelberg Catechism and became a member of First Reformed Church of Meservey. She attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley, Colo. Lydia taught in the Cerro Gordo County schools for seven years. On June 29, 1939, Lydia was married to William I. Hemmes of rural Hampton, at the First Reformed Church in Meservey. They farmed in this area until his death in 1971. After her marriage she transferred her membership to Zion Reformed Church of rural Sheffield. In her younger years she taught Sunday School. After her husband's death Lydia worked 15 years part-time as an outreach worker for Elderbridge Agency on Aging in many different counties in Area II, the Mason City area. She enjoyed working with Senior Citizens and made many friends.

Lydia is survived by her children, Bill and wife Laura of Waverly, Don and wife Helen of Hilo, Hawaii, Janie Cook and husband Tom of Missoula, Mont.; grandchildren, Holly Hansen (Frank) of Des Moines, Iowa, Kimo Hemmes (Shannon) of Batavia, Ill., Marc Hemmes (Diana Laughlin) of Estes Park, Colo., David Hemmes (Jenny) of Marion, Iowa, Catherine Cook of Missoula, Mont., Charles Cook of Missoula, Mont.; great-grandchildren, Case, Cole, Malia and Matthew Hemmes; and brother, Andrew Pals (Lucille) of Meservey. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Bill; two brothers, Fredrick and Henry; and two sisters, Lena Lock and Marie Vierkant. Dugger Funeral Home, 320 East St., Latimer, Iowa.

Mason City Globe Gazette -- Iowa
August 13, 2012