OBITUARY: Joyce Louise Hackbart, Worth County, Iowa


                          Joyce Louise Hackbart
                  
[Northwood Anchor online - www.northwoodanchor.com - Posted May 21, 2002]
                                                    

Joyce Louise Hackbart, 72, Manly, died Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at the Manly
Nursing & Rehab Center.

Funeral services were Friday at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Manly with
Rev. Randy Nielsen and Rev. Rose Marie Nack officiating.  Burial was in the
Grafton Cemetery.

Joyce Louise Hackbart was born on May 6, 1930, in Republic, KS, the daughter
of George and Pearl (Stradley) Nitcher.  She was baptized and reaffirmed
the faith of her baptism through confirmation at the Emmanuel Lutheran
Church in Grafton, and received her elementary education in the Otranto
Community School system and also attended Grafton High School, before
receiving her GED in 1978. 

She married Elroy August Hackbart on July 13, 1947, at the Emmanuel Lutheran
Church in Grafton.  He preceded her in death on Nov. 28, 1991.  Joyce was
a secretary and bookkeeper for various businesses for several years in the
north Iowa area.  Joyce also taught cake decorating at NIACC in Mason City.


She enjoyed cooking, baking, dancing, cake decorating, listening to music,
knitting, crocheting, quilting, arts and crafts, rosemalling, calligraphy,
collecting dolls, plates, and souvenir spoons, but her great love and
enjoyment was her family and friends. 

She was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Manly.

Left to cherish her memory is her mother Pearl Nitcher of Manly; a daughter,
Sharon Badenschier and her husband Chuck of Rochester, MN; three sons,
Marvin Hackbart and his wife Pat of Mason City, Kenneth Hackbart and his
wife Kathy of Mason City, and Howard Hackbart and his wife Joyce Ann of
Grafton; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a sister, Maxine
Kruger and her husband Ed of Grafton; and two brothers, George Nitcher and
his wife Cordelia of Council Bluffs, and Ken Nitcher and his wife Sandra
of Northwood; as well as other relatives and many friends.  

Besides her husband Elroy, her father, George Nitcher, a niece, Julie Kruger,
and a brother, Raymond in childbirth, also preceded her in death.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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