The Niemuth
Family -- Generation 8
-- Irene
Bertha Laura (Niemoth) Hoskins' obituary --
- CHADRON -- Irene Bertha Laura Hoskins,
91, of Crawford and formerly of Grand Island, died
- Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002, at the
Crestview Care Center in Chadron.
- Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday
at St. Pauls Lutheran Church. The Rev. John Douglas Russell will
- officiate. Burial will be in Westlawn
Memorial Park Cemetery.
- Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.
Monday at Livingston-Sondermann Funeral Home. Memorials are
- suggested to the donor's choice.
- Mrs. Hoskins was born March 10,
1910, at Grand Island to Edward and Emma (Loescher) Niemoth.
She
- attended Hall County District 71
School. She worked for a Grand Island family as a nanny and housekeeper
at the age of 17.
- She married Leonard Hoskins on Dec.
10, 1929, at Central City. They lived on a farm near St. Paul,
then
- moved in 1934 to Henley, Mo. They
returned to Nebraska in 1942. Mr. Hoskins worked at the ammunition
depots until the end of World War II. They then farmed in the
Clarks and Chapman areas until 1973. They moved to Grand Island
and then moved to Crawford in 1986.
- Mrs. Hoskins was a member of St.
Pauls Lutheran Church. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law,
- Ronald and Bobbie Hoskins of Crawford;
a daughter and son-in-law, Twyla and Sam Harrison of Goldendale,
Wash.; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
- She was preceded in death by her
husband and two great-grandchildren.
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- [Source: Grand Island Daily Independent,
Saturday, February 23, 2002]
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