OBITUARY: Alice Ferne (Crannell) Hockens, 1912-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa
 
[From Mitchell County-Press-News online (Edited); Posted May 5, 2004] 
 
 
 
                        Alice Ferne Hockens

Funeral services for Alice Ferne Hockens, age 92, of Osage, Iowa,
were held Thursday, April 29, 2004, at the Little Cedar United
Methodist Church. The Reverend Jay Amundson officiated. Interment
was in the Little Cedar Cemetery. Alice died Monday, April 26, 2004,
at the Faith Lutheran Home in Osage.

Ferne was born on April 22, 1912, near Perry, Iowa, the daughter
of Earl and Minne E. (Harrold) Crannell. She graduated from Perry
High School.

Ferne received her teacher's certificate from Iowa State Teacher's
College in Cedar Falls and later her bachelor of arts degree from
Upper Iowa University. She taught in the Little Cedar Consolidated
Schools and later at Pella, Iowa.

During World War II, she moved to California, where she worked at
a Lockheed Aircraft Plant. Following World War II, Ferne was united
in marriage to Charles F. Hockens on November 22, 1945, in Phoenix,
Arizona.  They returned to Little Cedar, where they engaged in
farming and where Ferne resumed her teaching career in the Riceville
school system. Music was very important to Ferne. She was involved
with the Mitchell County Chorus, church choir, was an organist and
gave piano lessons. She was a member of the Cedar Valley Retired
School Personnel.

Preceding Ferne in death were her parents, husband Charles Hockens
in 1997 and one sister Ruth Edwards.

Her suvivors include a son, Wendell Hockens and his wife Gala of
Omaha, Nebraska, and their children Michael Hockens and Pamela
(Nathan) Marticke, one daughter Judy Wilkes and her husband Milo
of Riceville and their children Teresa and fiance Drew Larson
and David (Julie) Wilkes and five great-grandchildren.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, Iowa (641) 732-3706, was
in charge of arrangements.
  
 
     Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson