Bio information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Rose, #48119627.
Heaven welcomed an angel when Hazel (Uland) Demski passed away on March 25, 2015. She was born in Des Arc. Ark. on Nov. 10, 1920, to Oscar and Mary (Sisson) Uland; the middle sister of Pauline (Chester) Brown, Modean (Mike) McCann and Maxine (Robert) Sunderland, who preceded her in death; and surviving sister, Betty Morgan of Florida.
She moved to Midland in the late 1920s after graduating from Des Arc High School. Hazel loved sports from an early age and was invited to play for the Pepsi Cola Red Heads women's basketball team after high school. But having to dye her hair red and wear shorts in public, she was not allowed in the south.
She decided to follow her sister Pauline to a thriving small town in Michigan when she moved to Midland. She made it her home for the nest 72 years. She never lost her southern accent. She was a fur buyer at Fredrick's Fashion on Main St. when she met and married a handsome man, Harry Demski, on June 26, 1943, at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Midland. They were married for 53 years before he passed away in 1996.
Hazel had a full life of work and volunteering, and loved doing it. She traveled every weekend in the 1940-1964 summers following her husband's boat racing career, while assisting him with the Pure Oil stations on the circle and on the corner of Eastman and Saginaw Rd. She was a swimming instructor at the Community Center, and a first aid instructor that traveled Midland events with the Red Cross trailer. she was co-owner of the Northtown Rental Store on Eastman, and retired as a school bus driver for MPS.
Hazel loved music. She made sure all her children knew how to play an instrument. Never feeling too old, on her 70 birthday she received a hammered dulcimer. She loved playing music and, with dad playing the banjo, they went to different events playing together. She was a member of the Midland Jolly Hammer and Strings, and the Midland Folk Music Society. Harry and Hazel also enjoyed raising beagles and loved to run them in the field trials at the Sturgeon Creek Beagle Club where they were members. She enjoyed here swimming group at the Community Center as well and will missed her 'group of girls.'
Hazel loved most of all her family and children. She always had an open door for her children and grandchildrens' friends, asking in her sweet southern accent "just tell me how many taors to put in the pot." She always had a spot for you at her Sunday morning breakfast table. Holidays and birthdays were always a get together for the whole family. Pancake Hazel will be missed.
Hazel is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (John) Speaker; daughter-in-law, Katie (Merryman) Demski; daughter, Gwen (Greg) Holt; and son, David (Penny) Demski all of Midland. She also has six grandchildren, Brian (fiance, Alitha Allbee) and Sara Klele, Kris (John) Teer, Matthew (Lindsey) Holt, Steven Holt and Josh Demski; and three great-grandchildren, Abby, Matthew and Micheal; her sweet sister, Betty Morgan; and a lot of nephews and nieces that she loved as well. Her sweet smile and kind and giving heart will be missed by all of them.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harry Demski; son, Gary Lee Demski; grandchild, Gary Joe Demski; and sisters, Pauline, Modean and Maxine, who will meet at the gates of Heaven. A very special thank you to Heartland Home Care Hospice and to Disability Network for their loving care of her in her final days.
The funeral liturgy will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday, March 30, 2015, from Assumption BVM Catholic Church, with Fr. Joseph Griffin as Celebrant. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery. Hazel's family will receive friends at the Ware-Smith-Woolever Funeral Home, 1200 W. Wheeler St., on Sunday from 2-8 p.m., and at the church on Monday from 10 a.m. until time of Mass. Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Disability Network of Midland, Heartland Hospice or just lend a helping hand, a kind gesture or a loving hug to an elderly neighbor, family member or stranger in Hazel's honor.
Hazel has a sister that was cremated, Maxine Sunderland.
Heaven welcomed an angel when Hazel (Uland) Demski passed away on March 25, 2015. She was born in Des Arc. Ark. on Nov. 10, 1920, to Oscar and Mary (Sisson) Uland; the middle sister of Pauline (Chester) Brown, Modean (Mike) McCann and Maxine (Robert) Sunderland, who preceded her in death; and surviving sister, Betty Morgan of Florida.
She moved to Midland in the late 1920s after graduating from Des Arc High School. Hazel loved sports from an early age and was invited to play for the Pepsi Cola Red Heads women's basketball team after high school. But having to dye her hair red and wear shorts in public, she was not allowed in the south.
She decided to follow her sister Pauline to a thriving small town in Michigan when she moved to Midland. She made it her home for the nest 72 years. She never lost her southern accent. She was a fur buyer at Fredrick's Fashion on Main St. when she met and married a handsome man, Harry Demski, on June 26, 1943, at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Midland. They were married for 53 years before he passed away in 1996.
Hazel had a full life of work and volunteering, and loved doing it. She traveled every weekend in the 1940-1964 summers following her husband's boat racing career, while assisting him with the Pure Oil stations on the circle and on the corner of Eastman and Saginaw Rd. She was a swimming instructor at the Community Center, and a first aid instructor that traveled Midland events with the Red Cross trailer. she was co-owner of the Northtown Rental Store on Eastman, and retired as a school bus driver for MPS.
Hazel loved music. She made sure all her children knew how to play an instrument. Never feeling too old, on her 70 birthday she received a hammered dulcimer. She loved playing music and, with dad playing the banjo, they went to different events playing together. She was a member of the Midland Jolly Hammer and Strings, and the Midland Folk Music Society. Harry and Hazel also enjoyed raising beagles and loved to run them in the field trials at the Sturgeon Creek Beagle Club where they were members. She enjoyed here swimming group at the Community Center as well and will missed her 'group of girls.'
Hazel loved most of all her family and children. She always had an open door for her children and grandchildrens' friends, asking in her sweet southern accent "just tell me how many taors to put in the pot." She always had a spot for you at her Sunday morning breakfast table. Holidays and birthdays were always a get together for the whole family. Pancake Hazel will be missed.
Hazel is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (John) Speaker; daughter-in-law, Katie (Merryman) Demski; daughter, Gwen (Greg) Holt; and son, David (Penny) Demski all of Midland. She also has six grandchildren, Brian (fiance, Alitha Allbee) and Sara Klele, Kris (John) Teer, Matthew (Lindsey) Holt, Steven Holt and Josh Demski; and three great-grandchildren, Abby, Matthew and Micheal; her sweet sister, Betty Morgan; and a lot of nephews and nieces that she loved as well. Her sweet smile and kind and giving heart will be missed by all of them.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harry Demski; son, Gary Lee Demski; grandchild, Gary Joe Demski; and sisters, Pauline, Modean and Maxine, who will meet at the gates of Heaven. A very special thank you to Heartland Home Care Hospice and to Disability Network for their loving care of her in her final days.
The funeral liturgy will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday, March 30, 2015, from Assumption BVM Catholic Church, with Fr. Joseph Griffin as Celebrant. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery. Hazel's family will receive friends at the Ware-Smith-Woolever Funeral Home, 1200 W. Wheeler St., on Sunday from 2-8 p.m., and at the church on Monday from 10 a.m. until time of Mass. Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Disability Network of Midland, Heartland Hospice or just lend a helping hand, a kind gesture or a loving hug to an elderly neighbor, family member or stranger in Hazel's honor.
Hazel has a sister that was cremated, Maxine Sunderland.
Bio information courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Rose, #48119627.
Heaven welcomed an angel when Hazel (Uland) Demski passed away on March 25, 2015. She was born in Des Arc. Ark. on Nov. 10, 1920, to Oscar and Mary (Sisson) Uland; the middle sister of Pauline (Chester) Brown, Modean (Mike) McCann and Maxine (Robert) Sunderland, who preceded her in death; and surviving sister, Betty Morgan of Florida.
She moved to Midland in the late 1920s after graduating from Des Arc High School. Hazel loved sports from an early age and was invited to play for the Pepsi Cola Red Heads women's basketball team after high school. But having to dye her hair red and wear shorts in public, she was not allowed in the south.
She decided to follow her sister Pauline to a thriving small town in Michigan when she moved to Midland. She made it her home for the nest 72 years. She never lost her southern accent. She was a fur buyer at Fredrick's Fashion on Main St. when she met and married a handsome man, Harry Demski, on June 26, 1943, at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Midland. They were married for 53 years before he passed away in 1996.
Hazel had a full life of work and volunteering, and loved doing it. She traveled every weekend in the 1940-1964 summers following her husband's boat racing career, while assisting him with the Pure Oil stations on the circle and on the corner of Eastman and Saginaw Rd. She was a swimming instructor at the Community Center, and a first aid instructor that traveled Midland events with the Red Cross trailer. she was co-owner of the Northtown Rental Store on Eastman, and retired as a school bus driver for MPS.
Hazel loved music. She made sure all her children knew how to play an instrument. Never feeling too old, on her 70 birthday she received a hammered dulcimer. She loved playing music and, with dad playing the banjo, they went to different events playing together. She was a member of the Midland Jolly Hammer and Strings, and the Midland Folk Music Society. Harry and Hazel also enjoyed raising beagles and loved to run them in the field trials at the Sturgeon Creek Beagle Club where they were members. She enjoyed here swimming group at the Community Center as well and will missed her 'group of girls.'
Hazel loved most of all her family and children. She always had an open door for her children and grandchildrens' friends, asking in her sweet southern accent "just tell me how many taors to put in the pot." She always had a spot for you at her Sunday morning breakfast table. Holidays and birthdays were always a get together for the whole family. Pancake Hazel will be missed.
Hazel is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (John) Speaker; daughter-in-law, Katie (Merryman) Demski; daughter, Gwen (Greg) Holt; and son, David (Penny) Demski all of Midland. She also has six grandchildren, Brian (fiance, Alitha Allbee) and Sara Klele, Kris (John) Teer, Matthew (Lindsey) Holt, Steven Holt and Josh Demski; and three great-grandchildren, Abby, Matthew and Micheal; her sweet sister, Betty Morgan; and a lot of nephews and nieces that she loved as well. Her sweet smile and kind and giving heart will be missed by all of them.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harry Demski; son, Gary Lee Demski; grandchild, Gary Joe Demski; and sisters, Pauline, Modean and Maxine, who will meet at the gates of Heaven. A very special thank you to Heartland Home Care Hospice and to Disability Network for their loving care of her in her final days.
The funeral liturgy will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday, March 30, 2015, from Assumption BVM Catholic Church, with Fr. Joseph Griffin as Celebrant. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery. Hazel's family will receive friends at the Ware-Smith-Woolever Funeral Home, 1200 W. Wheeler St., on Sunday from 2-8 p.m., and at the church on Monday from 10 a.m. until time of Mass. Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Disability Network of Midland, Heartland Hospice or just lend a helping hand, a kind gesture or a loving hug to an elderly neighbor, family member or stranger in Hazel's honor.
Hazel has a sister that was cremated, Maxine Sunderland.
Heaven welcomed an angel when Hazel (Uland) Demski passed away on March 25, 2015. She was born in Des Arc. Ark. on Nov. 10, 1920, to Oscar and Mary (Sisson) Uland; the middle sister of Pauline (Chester) Brown, Modean (Mike) McCann and Maxine (Robert) Sunderland, who preceded her in death; and surviving sister, Betty Morgan of Florida.
She moved to Midland in the late 1920s after graduating from Des Arc High School. Hazel loved sports from an early age and was invited to play for the Pepsi Cola Red Heads women's basketball team after high school. But having to dye her hair red and wear shorts in public, she was not allowed in the south.
She decided to follow her sister Pauline to a thriving small town in Michigan when she moved to Midland. She made it her home for the nest 72 years. She never lost her southern accent. She was a fur buyer at Fredrick's Fashion on Main St. when she met and married a handsome man, Harry Demski, on June 26, 1943, at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Midland. They were married for 53 years before he passed away in 1996.
Hazel had a full life of work and volunteering, and loved doing it. She traveled every weekend in the 1940-1964 summers following her husband's boat racing career, while assisting him with the Pure Oil stations on the circle and on the corner of Eastman and Saginaw Rd. She was a swimming instructor at the Community Center, and a first aid instructor that traveled Midland events with the Red Cross trailer. she was co-owner of the Northtown Rental Store on Eastman, and retired as a school bus driver for MPS.
Hazel loved music. She made sure all her children knew how to play an instrument. Never feeling too old, on her 70 birthday she received a hammered dulcimer. She loved playing music and, with dad playing the banjo, they went to different events playing together. She was a member of the Midland Jolly Hammer and Strings, and the Midland Folk Music Society. Harry and Hazel also enjoyed raising beagles and loved to run them in the field trials at the Sturgeon Creek Beagle Club where they were members. She enjoyed here swimming group at the Community Center as well and will missed her 'group of girls.'
Hazel loved most of all her family and children. She always had an open door for her children and grandchildrens' friends, asking in her sweet southern accent "just tell me how many taors to put in the pot." She always had a spot for you at her Sunday morning breakfast table. Holidays and birthdays were always a get together for the whole family. Pancake Hazel will be missed.
Hazel is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (John) Speaker; daughter-in-law, Katie (Merryman) Demski; daughter, Gwen (Greg) Holt; and son, David (Penny) Demski all of Midland. She also has six grandchildren, Brian (fiance, Alitha Allbee) and Sara Klele, Kris (John) Teer, Matthew (Lindsey) Holt, Steven Holt and Josh Demski; and three great-grandchildren, Abby, Matthew and Micheal; her sweet sister, Betty Morgan; and a lot of nephews and nieces that she loved as well. Her sweet smile and kind and giving heart will be missed by all of them.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harry Demski; son, Gary Lee Demski; grandchild, Gary Joe Demski; and sisters, Pauline, Modean and Maxine, who will meet at the gates of Heaven. A very special thank you to Heartland Home Care Hospice and to Disability Network for their loving care of her in her final days.
The funeral liturgy will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday, March 30, 2015, from Assumption BVM Catholic Church, with Fr. Joseph Griffin as Celebrant. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery. Hazel's family will receive friends at the Ware-Smith-Woolever Funeral Home, 1200 W. Wheeler St., on Sunday from 2-8 p.m., and at the church on Monday from 10 a.m. until time of Mass. Those planning an expression of sympathy are asked to consider the Disability Network of Midland, Heartland Hospice or just lend a helping hand, a kind gesture or a loving hug to an elderly neighbor, family member or stranger in Hazel's honor.
Hazel has a sister that was cremated, Maxine Sunderland.
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