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CLINTON, IL--ALVIN GABRIEL "BUD" HAAS, 77, of 2122 Sara, Cape Girardeau, Mo., formerly of Clinton, died Friday (Aug. 16, 1996) at Southeast Missouri Hospital. His funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrew Church, Cape Girardeau, the Rev. Louis Launhardt officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park, Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home, Cape Girardeau, has charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his wife, Betty Haas; two sons, Mark Haas, Cedar Hill, Mo.; and Dr. Chris Haas, Kansas City, Mo.; one daughter, Patricia Lessmann, Cape Girardeau; three brothers, Kenneth and John Haas, both of Cape Girardeau; and Harold, Kelso, Mo.; two sisters, Lucille Christoff, Cape Girardeau; and Joan Lane, Festus, Mo.; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.  
--Pantagraph, The (Bloomington, IL) - August 21, 1996

St. Petersburg, FL--HAFER, EVELYN W., 87, of St. Petersburg, died Thursday (March 9, 1995) at home. Born in Pocahontas, Mo., she came here a month ago from St. Louis and was a retired schoolteacher. She was a Lutheran. Survivors include her husband, Clarence E.; a daughter, Mary Jo Porter, St. Petersburg; a sister, Eleanor Schramm, St. Louis; and three grandchildren. Lewis W. Mohn Funeral Home, Seminole.   --St. Petersburg Times (FL) - March 11, 1995.


KANKAKEE, IL–HANNERS, 67, Jackson, Mo., retired from General Foods Plant of Kankakee, died Saturday (May 23, 1998). Army veteran of Korean conflict. Attended First Assembly of God Church, Jackson.
Survivors: wife, Dorothy; son, Ron Hanners, Moweaqua; sister, Lola Wright, Van Buren, Ark. Preceded by: two brothers.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday in McCombs Funeral Home, Jackson. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Burial: Pulliam Cemetery near Scopus in Bollinger County.
Note: This obituary did not give first name of deceased, but believe it to be Leonard C. Hanners per SSDI–born Oct 14, 1930; d. May 23, 1998.
--Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) - May 24, 1998
 


JACKSON, MO--YOUNG MAN SUDDENLY SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES--HARVEY HARTLE Suffered Bursting Blood Vessel in Brain--HARVEY HARTLE, the 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hartle, who was injured about a week ago by falling from dizziness while working on a telephone pole, died suddenly at his home in this city yesterday afternoon.
The immediate cause of his death was the bursting of a blood vessel in his brain and death was instantaneous.  The young man had been confned to his bed since his mishap last week, but was getting somewhat better, and was sitting up in his bed when his death came.  When the blood vessel bursted (sic) he gave one scream and fell back on his bed lifeless.
The young man was an estimable one, with many friends, and a sad circumstance connected with his untimely taking off is the fact that during the summer he was to have married Miss Ruth Turner of this city.
Funeral services will be held Thursday forenoon.  --Weekly Republican, March 10, 1911.


Florissant, MO--RUBY OLIVE HAY, 71; WAS RETIRED TEACHER-- Ruby Olive Hay, a retired Hazelwood elementary school teacher, died Friday (Dec. 24, 1993) at her home in Florissant after a brief illness. She was 71.
Miss Hay began working in the Hazelwood district in 1952 at the old Elm Grove Elementary School. She retired in 1987 from the Charbonnier Elementary School in Hazelwood. Previously, she had taught in St. Genevieve County, Mo., and in Delta, Mo.
Miss Hay was born in Advance, Mo., and received her bachelor's degree in education from the old Southeast Missouri Teacher's College (now Southeast Missouri State University), and her master's degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
She was an active member of the Florissant Valley Baptist Church and a teacher's sorority.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Florissant Valley Baptist Church, 1025 North Highway 67, in Florissant. Burial will be at the Hitt Family Cemetery near Delta, Mo. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the Buchholz Mortuary, 619 Rue St. Francois Street, in Florissant.
Among the survivors are her brother, Doyle Cates of Bloomfield, Mo.; a sister, Ida Kiehne, of Kansas; and several nieces and nephews.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - December 27, 1993


CAPE GIRARDEAU - MARIE HAZEL, 86, formerly of Sikeston, died Oct. 12, 2001, at her home.
Born Oct. 8, 1915, at Fornfelt, daughter of the late Henry A. and Bertha Hanschen Voges, she was director of assisting for the SEMO Area Agency on Aging for more than 20 years. A member of the Evangelical United Church of Christ, she was a lifetime member of the Exchangette.
On May 12, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, she married Henry Homer Hazel who preceded her in death on May 7, 1977.
Survivors include: two daughters, Mary J. Renne of Jackson and Gail A. Schwartz of Plano, Texas; one sister, Irene Voges of Cape Girardeau; and three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
One sister also preceded her in death.
Services were conducted Sunday at the Evangelical United Church of Christ with the Rev. James Caughlan officiating. Burial followed in Memorial Park Cemetery. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
–Sikeston Standard Democrat, Friday, October 19, 2001


SPRINGFIELD, IL--PAULINE E. HELLMEYER, 91, of Springfield, formerly of Cape Girardeau, Mo., died Friday at Villa East, Sherman. She was born Jan. 20, 1907, in Shobonier, the daughter of B. Frank and Lula Girard Perry. She married Louis B. Hellmeyer in 1925; he died in 1980. Mrs. Hellmeyer, a homemaker, had been a resident of Springfield since 1991, and also had lived in Memphis, Tenn., St. Louis and Louisville, Ky. She was a member of First Church of the Nazarene and attended Brown's Business College.
Survivors: a daughter, Mrs. George J. (Treva L.) Kasper of Springfield; five grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; a sister, Flossie Leonard of St. Louis; a brother, Carl Perry of Kansas City, Mo.; a niece; and several nephews and cousins.
Services: 4 p.m. Sunday, Staab Funeral Home, the Rev. Tim Gates and the Rev. Jack Kovalik officiating. Burial: 1 p.m. Monday, Memorial Park Gardens, Cape Girardeau, Mo.   --State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - April 4, 1998


COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. - TENNA KAYE HENNING, 37, formerly of Jackson, Mo., died Oct. 31, 2001, at her home, following a courageous battle with cancer. She passed peacefully, surrounded by family and friends.
Born July 5, 1964, in Dexter, Mo., she was the daughter of Sharon and Robert Gremore of Portageville, Mo.
On Sept. 9, 1989, she married William T. "Bill" Henning who survives of the home.
She worked for the City of Cape Girardeau and TG Missouri in Perryville while she lived in Jackson. She was an avid quilter and member of River Heritage Quilters Guild in Cape Girardeau and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. Bill and Tenna moved from Jackson to Collierville this past May. Tenna worked many years as a computer consultant, most recently working from her Collierville home for Colorado-based J.D. Edwards.
Loving survivors include her husband and parents; a sister and brother-in-law, LeeAnn and Brian Godair and niece, Hailey Godair of Jackson; a stepbrother and sister-in-law, Bob and Margaret Gremore and nephew, Pete Gremore of Los Angeles, Calif.; her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Minnie and Tom Henning of Chesterfield; two brothers-in-law, Mike Henning and Don Henning of Chesterfield; and many faithful, devoted friends.
Services were conducted Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson followed by interment in the Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson. Monsignor Edward Eftink officiated.
--Tuesday, November 6, 2001, Sikeston Standard Democrat


Alhambra, IL–EULA MARIE HESTER, 90, a homemaker, of Alhambra, formerly of Delta, Mo., died Thursday, (April 1, 1999). The funeral was Sunday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Mo. Burial was held in Kenyon Cemetery in Delta, Mo.  --St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - April 5, 1999 


Millersville, MO--BRANDY HOBECK-NOAH, 27, of Millersville, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.  She was born Nov. 2, 1980 in Cape Girardeau to Scott and Gina Whitener Hobeck.  Brandy graduated from Jackson High School in 1999.  She worked for Noffel Feuerhahn Center for Orthodontics in Cape Girardeau, and was currently a project manager at General Sign Company in Cape Girardeau.
Loving survivors include her sons, Colton and Corey Harrison of Millersville; her parents, Scott and Gina Hobeck of Millersville; a sister, Lindsey Holloway of Cape; paternal grandmother, Ruth Ann (the late Gifford) Hobeck of Jackson; maternal grandfather, Len (Jane) Whitener of Cape; maternal grandmother, Lois (Larry) Patrick of Brazeau, Mo; maternal great-grandmother, Florence King of St. Charles, Mo., and fiance Cory Menz of Cape Girardeau.
Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.  The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home with the Revs. Jim Matthews and Rocky Tallent officiating.  Interment will follow in New Salem Cemetery near Daisy.


Jackson, MO--MRS. PAUL HOECKELE OF JACKSON SUCCUMBS AFTER CHILD'S BIRTH--MRS. SALLY HOECKELE, 27 year old wife of Paul Hoeckele of Jackson died of mesenteric thrombosis at 1:14 a.m. today at St. Francis Hospital.  Mrs. Hoeckele was brought to the hospital Saturday afternoon and a son was born at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.  Mrs. Hoeckele undergoing a Caesarian operation.  The child, Paul Charles, is living and doing nicely.
The body was removed to the McCombs undertaking establishment at Jackson and will be taken Saturday afternoon to the home of her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoeckele, at Jackson.  Funeral services will be conducted at 8:30 o'clock Monday morning at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Jackson with the Rev. John Bauer, pastor, in charge.  Burial will be in a Jackson cemetery.
Mrs. Heockele, formerly Miss Sally Heisserer, was born at Kelso, April 4, 1911, and received her education in the parochial school there.  She was married to Mr. Hoeckele Oct. 27, five years ago and the couple had resided at Jackson.  Mr. Hoeckele is employed at the Wagner Bakery.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Hoeckele is survived by her baby son, and a daughter, Patricia Ann, 3; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Heisserer of Kelso; a brother, Paul Heisserer of Kelso; and severn sisters, Mrs. Joe Hoeckele of Jackson, Misses Alvina and Corene Heisserer of Cape Girardeau, Mrs. John Hamm of New Hamburg, and Misses Marie, Edna and Melva Heisserer of Kelso.  --Southeast Missourian, Oct. 9, 1936.


Marion, AR--LORENE ULRICH HOOD, 60, of Marion, hostess and cashier at Ramada Inn, died Monday (Jan. 6, 1992) at Johnson-Hobson Nursing Home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Zion Methodist Church in Gordonville, Mo., with burial in the church cemetery. Roller-Citizens Funeral Home has charge. She leaves two daughters, Diann Elrod and Beverly Bolden, both of West Memphis; two sons, Ronald Hood of Bartlett and Charles Hood of Marion; four sisters, Dorothy Murta and Margie Medlin, both of St. Charles, Mo., Bernice Quade of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Elsie Eggiman of Gordonville.; three brothers, Harry Ulrich of St. Louis, Nelson Ulrich of East St. Louis, Ill., and Melvin Ulrich of Scott City, Mo., and nine grandchildren.   --Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - January 7, 1992


REV. JOSEPH HUELS; SERVED CHURCH HERE–St. Louis, MO--Monsignor Joseph Huels, an associate pastor here in the 1930s and 1940s, died Friday (April 16, 1993) at a hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo., after suffering from cancer. He was 83.
Monsignor Huels was born in St. Louis. He graduated from St. Louis Preparatory Seminary and Kenrick Seminary in Webster Groves.
He was associate pastor at St. Stephen's Catholic Church in St. Louis from 1934 to 1943. During that time, he also was a volunteer for Catholic Worker, an organization that provides food and shelter for poor people.
In later years, he served as a school administrator, associate pastor and pastor in various cities and towns throughout Missouri.
He was pastor of St. Mary's of the Annunciation Cathedral in Cape Girardeau for 10 years and was associated with that cathedral's parish for nearly 26 years. He was senior priest in residence there when he died.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Monday at St. Mary's of the Annunciation Cathedral. Burial was in the cathedral's cemetery.
Among the survivors are a brother, the Rev. Vincent Huels of Florissant; and a sister, Amelia "Betty" Jones of St. Louis.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - April 21, 1993
  

Valrico, FL--HARRY P. HUTCHINGS JR., 66, of Valrico died Wednesday at home. A native of Cape Girardeau, Mo., he had lived in the Tampa Bay area 10 years. He was a business agent for the Teamsters Union Local 574, Cape Girardeau.  He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in World War II, and received three Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2410, Harlingen-San Benito Memorial in Texas and Brandon Masonic Lodge 114. He was past-president of the Eagles Lodge, Cape Girardeau, and a former member of the Brandon Elks Lodge 2383. He is survived by his wife, Wilma A.; one son, Harry P. ""Butch'' III of Denver; one daughter, Barbara Miller of Brandon; one brother, Robert of Jackson, Mo.; two sisters, Delores Sellards of Sonoma, Calif., and Linda of Texas; and two grandchildren. Stowers Brandon Chapel. --Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - May 16, 1991


Pawnee, IL--IDA PEARL HYPKE, 72, of Pawnee died Thursday at St. John's Hospice. She was born July 8, 1922, in Whitewater, Mo., the daughter of Rev. Howard and Clara Rust Hayden. She married George A. Hypke in 1944. Mrs. Hypke was a charter member and first president of the Mary China Painters of Springfield. She was a member of Illinois World Organization of China Painters and the International Porcelain Teachers. She taught china painting for over 15 years and was recording secretary of the state organization. She was also active in the local Girl Scouts Council in the 50s and 60s as troop leader, coordinator of outdoor leader training and summer camps at Lincoln Memorial Garden, as well as winter manager of Camp Widiwagon. She was also a member of the Church of the Little Flower.
Survivors: husband, George; a daughter, Dr. Donna Corriveau of Chatham, IL; two grandsons; two brothers, Dr. Albert Hayden of Springfield, Ohio, and Kenneth Hayden of Cahutta, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Ann Judd of Springfield; and several nieces and nephews.
Concelebrated funeral Mass, 11:30 a.m. Monday, Church of the Little Flower. Burial: Camp Butler National Cemetery. Kirlin-Egan and Butler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  --State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - March 4, 1995 


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