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LaVera Mina “Vera” <I>Hammer</I> Higgason

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LaVera Mina “Vera” Hammer Higgason

Birth
Union, Hardin County, Iowa, USA
Death
9 Dec 1975 (aged 85)
Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, USA
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ELDORA - (Special) - Services for Mrs. LaVera Higgason, 85, a lifelong Hardin County resident who was for many years a practical nurse, will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Longnecker Funeral Home. The Rev. Paul E. Syster will officiate, and burial will be in Miller Cemetery southwest of Union.
Mrs. Higgason, who had lived in Eldora 47 years, died Tuesday at Eldora Community Hospital.
She was born near Union July 20, 1890, a daughter of Adam and Eliza Rash Hammer, and was married at Marshalltown Oct. 1, 1907, to Walter B. Higgason, who died in 1960.
Surviving are six children: Mrs. Dean (Avonelle) Rash of Union, Mrs. Frances Mayer of Los Angeles, Calif., Orville Higgason and Max Higgason Sr. of Eldora, Mrs.
Howard (Arlene) Bitters of Iowa Falls and Mrs. James (Bettie) Dix of New Providence. There are 24 grandchildren, 68 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.
Also surviving are a brother, Verlin Hammer of Marshalltown, and three sisters, Mrs. Harriet Bittner, Mrs. Bethel Teske and Mrs. Luella Peterson, all of Des Moines.
Four sons, one in infancy, preceded Mrs. Higgason in death, as did a brother and three sisters.
Obituary:
ELDORA - (Special) - Services for Mrs. LaVera Higgason, 85, a lifelong Hardin County resident who was for many years a practical nurse, will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Longnecker Funeral Home. The Rev. Paul E. Syster will officiate, and burial will be in Miller Cemetery southwest of Union.
Mrs. Higgason, who had lived in Eldora 47 years, died Tuesday at Eldora Community Hospital.
She was born near Union July 20, 1890, a daughter of Adam and Eliza Rash Hammer, and was married at Marshalltown Oct. 1, 1907, to Walter B. Higgason, who died in 1960.
Surviving are six children: Mrs. Dean (Avonelle) Rash of Union, Mrs. Frances Mayer of Los Angeles, Calif., Orville Higgason and Max Higgason Sr. of Eldora, Mrs.
Howard (Arlene) Bitters of Iowa Falls and Mrs. James (Bettie) Dix of New Providence. There are 24 grandchildren, 68 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.
Also surviving are a brother, Verlin Hammer of Marshalltown, and three sisters, Mrs. Harriet Bittner, Mrs. Bethel Teske and Mrs. Luella Peterson, all of Des Moines.
Four sons, one in infancy, preceded Mrs. Higgason in death, as did a brother and three sisters.

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