Katie (Hoodjer) HARMS

HARMS, HERONIMUS, HOODJER, CUNNINGHAM, KRUSE, AALFS, FURMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/8/2013 at 01:15:35

June 17, 1908 ---- October 29, 1996

Katie Harms, 88, of Wellsburg, died Tuesday, October 29, 1996 at the Franklin General Hospital in Hampton of natural causes. Katie was born on June 17, 1908 at Holland, Iowa the daughter of John and Jennie Heronimus Hoodjer. She grew up in the Holland area and attended school there. On June 24, 1926 she was united in marriage to John Harms in Grundy County, Iowa. During their marriage they lived in the Wellsburg, Steamboat Rock, Kanawha, Ackley, and Sheffield areas. In 1966 they retired in Wellsburg. On October 16, 1968, John preceded Katie in death. She leaves to mourn her passing four daughters, Deloris Cunningham and her husband Orrin of Hansell, Caroline Kruse and her husband Willie Of Lone Rock, Imogene Furman and her husband Dale of Bradford, and Sharon Aalfs of Coulter; four sons, John Ervin of Osage, Gene of Baraboo, WI, Wendell of Anaheim, CA, and Roger of Indianola; 23 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; 3 sisters; and 1 brother. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John; 2 sisters; one son; 4 grandchildren; and one son-in-law. Katie was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in rural Wellsburg.