OBITUARY: Hazel "Maxine" Dutton , Mitchell County, Iowa



                        Hazel "Maxine" Dutton

[Mitchell County Press online -- Posted Jan. 16, 2002 -- www.mcpress.com]

A memorial service was held on Friday, Jan. 11, 2002 at the United Methodist
Church, Osage, for Hazel "Maxine" Dutton, age 84, of Mason City, formerly of
Osage. Hospice Chaplin Rev. Kathy Graves officiated. Inurnment will be at
the Riceville Cemetery at a later date. Hazel died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2002
at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Hazel "Maxine" Dutton was born April 4, 1917 in Dows the daughter of
Benjamin and Maude (Stuck) Rice. She was united in marriage to George
Dutton on July 23, 1936 in Eagle Grove. They moved to a farm north of
Riceville in 1953 and farmed for many years. George died Oct. 16, 1989.

Maxine was a member of Oakdale Township Women's Club and the Kitchen Klatter
Band. She baked cakes for all occasions, loved music and played the piano,
quilted, crocheted and took care of her plants.

Preceding her in death were her parents; one daughter, Carmen Joyce Jones
and an infant grandson.

Those that survive include her three daughters, Jacqueline Gott of Mason
City, Sandra Krause and her husband, Howard of Orchard, Karen Lenz and her
friend Bob Johnson of Osage; one son, Richard Lee Dutton and his wife,
Betty of Onamia, MN; a granddaughter that Maxine raised, Melanie Muth and
her husband, Dave of Dougherty; a sister, Marcine Cooper and her husband,
Bluferd of Dows; 10 grandchiledren, 19 great-grandchildren and
23 step-grandchildren.



Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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