George and Lillian "Belle" Hormel were married Feb. 24, 1892.
In George's thoughts about his wife, as recorded in his autobiography "Three Men and a Business."
"My wife had been a teacher in the Austin High School. Of New England descent, she brought into our partnership a love of music and books, rare sympathy and good sense, an understanding of human nature, and the great patience necessary to surmount the problems and uncertainties of our first years together. They were not easy years for either of us. They brought sickness and death, struggle and worry, the hard things to which flesh is heir. But for me they were made endurable by her never-failing help in any capacity in which she could serve. Like Father, she believed that the test of love is what we are willing to do for others, and, like him, she was never afraid of the test."
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Daughter of Henry and Jane Elizabeth (Hough) Gleason, wife of George Albert Hormel. Mother of Jay Catherwood Hormel, the inventor of SPAM.
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In George's thoughts about his wife, as recorded in his autobiography "Three Men and a Business."
"My wife had been a teacher in the Austin High School. Of New England descent, she brought into our partnership a love of music and books, rare sympathy and good sense, an understanding of human nature, and the great patience necessary to surmount the problems and uncertainties of our first years together. They were not easy years for either of us. They brought sickness and death, struggle and worry, the hard things to which flesh is heir. But for me they were made endurable by her never-failing help in any capacity in which she could serve. Like Father, she believed that the test of love is what we are willing to do for others, and, like him, she was never afraid of the test."
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Daughter of Henry and Jane Elizabeth (Hough) Gleason, wife of George Albert Hormel. Mother of Jay Catherwood Hormel, the inventor of SPAM.
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George and Lillian "Belle" Hormel were married Feb. 24, 1892.
In George's thoughts about his wife, as recorded in his autobiography "Three Men and a Business."
"My wife had been a teacher in the Austin High School. Of New England descent, she brought into our partnership a love of music and books, rare sympathy and good sense, an understanding of human nature, and the great patience necessary to surmount the problems and uncertainties of our first years together. They were not easy years for either of us. They brought sickness and death, struggle and worry, the hard things to which flesh is heir. But for me they were made endurable by her never-failing help in any capacity in which she could serve. Like Father, she believed that the test of love is what we are willing to do for others, and, like him, she was never afraid of the test."
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Daughter of Henry and Jane Elizabeth (Hough) Gleason, wife of George Albert Hormel. Mother of Jay Catherwood Hormel, the inventor of SPAM.
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In George's thoughts about his wife, as recorded in his autobiography "Three Men and a Business."
"My wife had been a teacher in the Austin High School. Of New England descent, she brought into our partnership a love of music and books, rare sympathy and good sense, an understanding of human nature, and the great patience necessary to surmount the problems and uncertainties of our first years together. They were not easy years for either of us. They brought sickness and death, struggle and worry, the hard things to which flesh is heir. But for me they were made endurable by her never-failing help in any capacity in which she could serve. Like Father, she believed that the test of love is what we are willing to do for others, and, like him, she was never afraid of the test."
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Daughter of Henry and Jane Elizabeth (Hough) Gleason, wife of George Albert Hormel. Mother of Jay Catherwood Hormel, the inventor of SPAM.
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