| Description |
: |
HRABAK FUNERAL HOME
The funeral for Emma Mae Rabe will be at 1:00 PM Saturday, November 11, 2006 at the Hrabak Funeral Home in Belle Plaine, with the Rev. Carol E Froning officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Belle Plaine.
Mrs. Rabe, 99, a longtime Belle Plaine homemaker, died Tuesday morning, November 7, 2006, at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone where she had resided since December, 2005.
Emma Mae Clair was born June 27, 1907 in Hamilton County, Iowa on a farm 4 1/4 miles north of Jewell, Iowa, the sixth child of Anna...
Read More
|
HRABAK FUNERAL HOME
The funeral for Emma Mae Rabe will be at 1:00 PM Saturday, November 11, 2006 at the Hrabak Funeral Home in Belle Plaine, with the Rev. Carol E Froning officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Belle Plaine.
Mrs. Rabe, 99, a longtime Belle Plaine homemaker, died Tuesday morning, November 7, 2006, at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone where she had resided since December, 2005.
Emma Mae Clair was born June 27, 1907 in Hamilton County, Iowa on a farm 4 1/4 miles north of Jewell, Iowa, the sixth child of Anna Johanna Stransky and Charles William Lane Clair. She attended Lyon Township, District 2, rural school through the eighth grade, a year at Jewell High School, and the American School of Chicago by correspondence. She completed many night school classes in Belle Plaine and also Red Cross home nursing and first aid classes.
On June 24, 1931, she married Walter C. Rabe at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They lived in the same home in Belle Plaine all of their married lives. She continued to live in the home after his death on August 16, 1997, until entering the nursing home. Her husband was a city letter carrier in Belle Plaine for 42 years and a U.S. weather observer for more than 30 years.
Mrs. Rabe was a longtime member of the Alsew Club and Sunny Monday Club. She had been active in genealogy and picture-taking all her life and enjoyed crafts of all kinds, especially crocheting, and making doll outfits.
On her 99th birthday, she was given an honorary high school diploma from Jewell High School (South Hamilton) and the event was broadcast on KCCI-TV of Des Moines.
Survivors include: a brother, Elmer (Mildred) Clair of Webster City; and two sisters, Frances Broom of Jewell, and Anna June (Kenneth) Egland of Rochester, Minnesota. She was preceded in death by: her husband; nine sisters, Mabelle, Blanche, Elizabeth, Florence, Bertha, Lucille, Gladys, Clarice, and Gertrude; and three brothers, Benjamin, Charles Jr., and Howard.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 4:00 - 7:00 PM Friday and from 10:00 AM until the time of service Saturday.
Memorials are suggested to the Little Brown Church or the Belle Plaine Museum.
|
