Babcock, Lorena Christine

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• Reference Number: BABC.L001
• _FGRAVE: 123027537

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Mrs. Wm. Hosselton, 73, died Saturday at the Heritage Home in Clarion where she had been a patient for 2 1/2 years. She had been ill for several years.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the United Methodist Church in charge of the Rev. Donald Forbes. Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Hosselton is survived by five daughters and one son, Mrs Stephen Trausch of Tucson, Ariz.; Mrs. E. W. Foster of Outlook, Wash.; Mrs. Jean Cammack of San Antonio, Tex.; Mrs. Maurice Chelesvig and Mrs. Leonard Jahnke of Eagle Grove; and William Hosselton, Jr. of Milwaukee, Wisc. She is also survived by 15 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, one brother, Leo Babcock of Independence, Kans., and her step-mother, Mrs. G. F. Babcock of Flora, Ill.

She was preceded in death by one son, Galen.

When the Hosselton family farmed east of Eagle Grove before moving to their present home at 205 South Iowa Ave. Mrs. Hosselton was a member of the K.Y.N. Club and retained her membership as long as her health permitted.

Source: EAGLE GROVE EAGLE, July 31, 1969, page 9

Lorena married Hosselton, William Mordecai in 1916. William (son of Hosselton, Charles M. and Stanford, Emma C.) was born on 12 Mar 1895 in Clay County, Illinois; died on 28 Mar 1975 in Belmond, Wright County, Iowa; was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove, Wright County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]