Hazel (Canon) LERDAL WISGERHOF

LERDAL, WISGERHOF, BELT, SOMERS, CANON, GORTON, TINSLEY, SOMERS, BURKE, HARSH, OBRIEN, DUE, CLIPPERTON, HUEY, RICHARDSON, JENNINGS, DAVIS, BREHMER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/28/2017 at 23:37:00

March 11, 1909 ---- May 31, 2000

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa - Hazel Wisgerhof, 91, of Clear Lake, died Wednesday (May 31, 2000) at the Oakwood Care Center in Clear Lake. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the First Congregational Church in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Thomas Healey, officiating. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake is in charge of services. The family suggest memorials to the First Congregational Church.

Hazel was born March 11, 1909, in Dumont, the daughter of James Thaddeus and Emma Effie (Belt) Canon. She graduated from Dumont High School and Hamilton Business College in Mason City. She moved to Clear Lake in 1946. Hazel dearly loved her children and grandchildren and they were a very active part of their life. She enjoyed cooking, sewing and especially playing bridge. Hazel was a member of First Congregational Church, Clear Lake.

Hazel is survived by three daughters, JoAnn Huey and her husband, Pete, of Clear Lake, Javotte Gorton and her husband, Gerald, and Judy Somers, both of Bloomington, Minn.; one sister-in-law, Beatrice Canon, of Dumont; 16 grandchildren, Jeff Gorton, Jay Gorton, Jill Tinsley, Michael Somers, Deborah Burke, Sandra Harsh, Shelley O'Brien, Denise Clipperton, Daniel Huey, Dawn Richardson, Duane Huey, David Huey, Drew Huey, Dustin Huey, Kelly Jennings and Tim Jennings; 30 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren; and her special friends, Chris and Alan Due, of Clear Lake. Her parents; two husbands, Dr. Joseph H. Lerdal and Guy Wisgerhof; daughter, Terry Sue Jennings; two brothers, Hildie and Lyle Canon; and two sisters, Lora Davis and Thada Brehmer, preceded her in death. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.