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.
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.
Family Members
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Carrie May Hammer McCollum Rowley
1888–1921
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LaVada Ina "Vada" Hammer Bittner
1890–1963
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Elmer John Hammer
1894–1968
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Harriett Dell "Hattie" Hammer Bittner
1896–1990
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Eva Elizabeth Hammer Newton
1898–1975
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Bethel Lena "Beth" Hammer Teske
1902–1990
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Luella Jane Hammer Peterson
1906–1988
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Verlin Jennings Bryan Hammer
1908–1986
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Hazel Avonelle "Avonelle" Higgason Rash
1908–2004
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Frances Marian Higgason Lewis Mayer
1911–1984
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Wallace Bruce "Wally" Higgason
1912–1974
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Orville John Higgason
1914–1996
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Robert Max Higgason Sr
1916–2007
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Vern Higgason
1918–1919
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Arlene Higgason Bitters
1921–2004
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William Dinsmore "Bill" Higgason
1923–1970
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Ronald Higgason
1924–1942
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Bettie Colleen Higgason Dix
1926–2019
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