NAMPA — Services for Elmira Ellen Hobza, 92, Nampa, who died Saturday in a Boise nursing home, will he conducted at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Alsip Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Clarence J. Kinzler of College Church of the Nazarene, Nampa. Interment will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.
She was born May 3, 1888, in Bellingham, Minn. where she was reared and educated. She married Ralph L. Hobza on Nov. 24, 1910, in Lidgerwood, N.D. They pastored briefly for the Methodist Church and many years for the Church of the Nazarene in North Dakota, Minnesota and Idaho. They moved to Nampa in 1938. They owned and operated the Holly Market after her husband retired. She later received her practical nurse's license from Mercy Hospital, Nampa. Her husband died in 1962. She was a member of Nampa First Church of the Nazarene, the Foreign Missionary Chapter of the Church of the Nazarene and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Survivors include a son, Delwin W. Hobza, Nampa; three daughters, Mrs. C.M. (Maxine) Charlson and Mrs. W.R.(Marlys) Kirk, both of Boise, and Mrs. D.R. (Naomi) Wright of Hawaii; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five brothers and two sisters.
Memorials may be made to the Christian Schools Foundation, Box G, Nampa 83651.
The Idaho Statesman, Sunday, February 8, 1981 Page 2B
NAMPA — Services for Elmira Ellen Hobza, 92, Nampa, who died Saturday in a Boise nursing home, will he conducted at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Alsip Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Clarence J. Kinzler of College Church of the Nazarene, Nampa. Interment will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.
She was born May 3, 1888, in Bellingham, Minn. where she was reared and educated. She married Ralph L. Hobza on Nov. 24, 1910, in Lidgerwood, N.D. They pastored briefly for the Methodist Church and many years for the Church of the Nazarene in North Dakota, Minnesota and Idaho. They moved to Nampa in 1938. They owned and operated the Holly Market after her husband retired. She later received her practical nurse's license from Mercy Hospital, Nampa. Her husband died in 1962. She was a member of Nampa First Church of the Nazarene, the Foreign Missionary Chapter of the Church of the Nazarene and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Survivors include a son, Delwin W. Hobza, Nampa; three daughters, Mrs. C.M. (Maxine) Charlson and Mrs. W.R.(Marlys) Kirk, both of Boise, and Mrs. D.R. (Naomi) Wright of Hawaii; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five brothers and two sisters.
Memorials may be made to the Christian Schools Foundation, Box G, Nampa 83651.
The Idaho Statesman, Sunday, February 8, 1981 Page 2B
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