Re: obituary - Mabel Pennell HIGGINS
HIGGINS, PENNELL, HAMMERSTROM, CRONK, TWEEDT, ANGLE
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: obituary (Leona)
Date: 12/30/2010 at 22:10:46
MRS. JOE HIGGINS, BURT, MOTHER OF FIVE, PASSES
Burt, IA: This community was saddened Monday evening to learn that Mrs. Joe Higgins had passed away at an Algona hospital. She had been ill with a heart ailment about two months and at Easter time her condition was such it seemed advisable to take her to the hospital where everything possible was done to relieve her suffering but death resulted at 7:30 p. m., May 1. Funeral services were held in Algona at the Catholic church, Father J. M. Mallinger officiating. Burial was in the Armstrong cemetery. The following members of the Legion were pallbearers: George Hawcott, R. A. Chafee, Walter Lockwood, Roy Clark, Charles Scott and Nels J. Nelson.
Mabel Alice Pennell, daughter of John and Myrtle Pennell was born in Plymouth, Iowa, Aug. 14, 1902. At the age of three months she moved with her parents to Armstrong. She grew up and graduated from high school in Armstrong in 1921. She was married to Joseph Higgins Jan. 15, 1922, and to this union six children were born. They lived in Armstrong until moving to Burt in July, 1937. She leaves to mourn her passing, her husband, who is in the navy somewhere in the Pacific; five children, Virl, Mrs. Donald Hammerstrom; Patricia, Alice, Julene and Thomas. Janet Sue, a twin to Thomas, died in infancy. She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Irvin Cronk of Fairmont, Minn., and Mrs. Burnis Tweedt of Armstrong, one grandchild, Donna Hammerstrom; other relatives and many near friends here. Her father, John Pennell, died about a year ago. The husband, Joseph, now serving in the South Pacific, is a brother of Mrs. Amos Angle, of Algona. Every effort was made to bring Joe home during his wife's illness, but the Red Cross was unable to succeed. He served in the first world war and was home on leave for only one day last August. Since that time he has been in the navy in action in the South Pacific area. He has been on duty for the past two years.
Algona Upper Des Moines -- Algona, Iowa
Tuesday, May 09, 1944
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