Ethel Irene Hagerman, 91, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died Oct. 18 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg.
Born in Avoca, she moved to St. Petersburg in 1976 from Council Bluffs. She was a retired kindergarten and first grade teacher at Iowa School for the Deaf, a free lance writer and water colorist. She was a life member of both National and Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers; life member of W.C.A.J. Emondson Hospital governing board of Council Bluffs and one of three who originated its "Auxiliary"; and life member of Bethany Lutheran Home in Council Bluffs and of the St. Petersburg Little Theater of Florida. She was a Girl Scout leader and leadership training head in Council Bluffs. For more than 52 years, she served for the American Cancer Society and during WWII, she served Pottawattamie County as head of its "Home Nursing" chairman under the Red Cross.
Survivors include her husband of 73 years, Wendell; a daughter, Barbara Lynn Taylor of St. Petersburg; an adopted son (adopted at age 2 1/2 years from Lutheran Welfare in Des Moines, Iowa), Dennis Drake Hagerman of Chapel Hills, N.C.; 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-N.E. of St. Petersburg is in charge of arrangements. Obituary after The Daily Nonpareil Online of Council Bluffs, Arkansas.
I think that Wendell & Ethel may have been in the congregation at Saint Andrew church in St. Petersburg, a congregation pastored for 25 years by pastor Klaus O. R. Koch; and the two art pieces were given to the pastor's wife, Ann Drafts Koch (also an adoptive mother). I made contact with Dennis in mid-January 2016 and sent the two paintings to him. An email from Dennis notes what a wonderful mother Ethel was to him!
Born in Avoca, she moved to St. Petersburg in 1976 from Council Bluffs. She was a retired kindergarten and first grade teacher at Iowa School for the Deaf, a free lance writer and water colorist. She was a life member of both National and Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers; life member of W.C.A.J. Emondson Hospital governing board of Council Bluffs and one of three who originated its "Auxiliary"; and life member of Bethany Lutheran Home in Council Bluffs and of the St. Petersburg Little Theater of Florida. She was a Girl Scout leader and leadership training head in Council Bluffs. For more than 52 years, she served for the American Cancer Society and during WWII, she served Pottawattamie County as head of its "Home Nursing" chairman under the Red Cross.
Survivors include her husband of 73 years, Wendell; a daughter, Barbara Lynn Taylor of St. Petersburg; an adopted son (adopted at age 2 1/2 years from Lutheran Welfare in Des Moines, Iowa), Dennis Drake Hagerman of Chapel Hills, N.C.; 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-N.E. of St. Petersburg is in charge of arrangements. Obituary after The Daily Nonpareil Online of Council Bluffs, Arkansas.
I think that Wendell & Ethel may have been in the congregation at Saint Andrew church in St. Petersburg, a congregation pastored for 25 years by pastor Klaus O. R. Koch; and the two art pieces were given to the pastor's wife, Ann Drafts Koch (also an adoptive mother). I made contact with Dennis in mid-January 2016 and sent the two paintings to him. An email from Dennis notes what a wonderful mother Ethel was to him!
Ethel Irene Hagerman, 91, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died Oct. 18 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg.
Born in Avoca, she moved to St. Petersburg in 1976 from Council Bluffs. She was a retired kindergarten and first grade teacher at Iowa School for the Deaf, a free lance writer and water colorist. She was a life member of both National and Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers; life member of W.C.A.J. Emondson Hospital governing board of Council Bluffs and one of three who originated its "Auxiliary"; and life member of Bethany Lutheran Home in Council Bluffs and of the St. Petersburg Little Theater of Florida. She was a Girl Scout leader and leadership training head in Council Bluffs. For more than 52 years, she served for the American Cancer Society and during WWII, she served Pottawattamie County as head of its "Home Nursing" chairman under the Red Cross.
Survivors include her husband of 73 years, Wendell; a daughter, Barbara Lynn Taylor of St. Petersburg; an adopted son (adopted at age 2 1/2 years from Lutheran Welfare in Des Moines, Iowa), Dennis Drake Hagerman of Chapel Hills, N.C.; 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-N.E. of St. Petersburg is in charge of arrangements. Obituary after The Daily Nonpareil Online of Council Bluffs, Arkansas.
I think that Wendell & Ethel may have been in the congregation at Saint Andrew church in St. Petersburg, a congregation pastored for 25 years by pastor Klaus O. R. Koch; and the two art pieces were given to the pastor's wife, Ann Drafts Koch (also an adoptive mother). I made contact with Dennis in mid-January 2016 and sent the two paintings to him. An email from Dennis notes what a wonderful mother Ethel was to him!
Born in Avoca, she moved to St. Petersburg in 1976 from Council Bluffs. She was a retired kindergarten and first grade teacher at Iowa School for the Deaf, a free lance writer and water colorist. She was a life member of both National and Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers; life member of W.C.A.J. Emondson Hospital governing board of Council Bluffs and one of three who originated its "Auxiliary"; and life member of Bethany Lutheran Home in Council Bluffs and of the St. Petersburg Little Theater of Florida. She was a Girl Scout leader and leadership training head in Council Bluffs. For more than 52 years, she served for the American Cancer Society and during WWII, she served Pottawattamie County as head of its "Home Nursing" chairman under the Red Cross.
Survivors include her husband of 73 years, Wendell; a daughter, Barbara Lynn Taylor of St. Petersburg; an adopted son (adopted at age 2 1/2 years from Lutheran Welfare in Des Moines, Iowa), Dennis Drake Hagerman of Chapel Hills, N.C.; 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-N.E. of St. Petersburg is in charge of arrangements. Obituary after The Daily Nonpareil Online of Council Bluffs, Arkansas.
I think that Wendell & Ethel may have been in the congregation at Saint Andrew church in St. Petersburg, a congregation pastored for 25 years by pastor Klaus O. R. Koch; and the two art pieces were given to the pastor's wife, Ann Drafts Koch (also an adoptive mother). I made contact with Dennis in mid-January 2016 and sent the two paintings to him. An email from Dennis notes what a wonderful mother Ethel was to him!
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