Obit for KLEVE, Harriet Grace (b.1912 d.2004), Murray Co., MN
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Harriet Grace Kleve of Grants Pass passed away on Monday, October 25, 2004
at the age of 92 at Spring Pointe Memory Care Community in Grants Pass, OR.

Harriet was born in Little Rock, Iowa on May 31, 1912 to Harm and Hattie
Duis Hinders. She graduated from Sibley High School, Sibley, Iowa in 1931
and attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught
all 8 grades in one-room country schools in Osceola County, Iowa until her
marriage to Carl August Kleve on May 28, 1938. At that time a school teacher
in Iowa could not be married, so she was a homemaker until 1941 when they
moved to a farm near Avoca, Minnesota. Shortly after moving she began
teaching, again in a one-room schoolhouse, until 1951 when they adopted 3
brothers: Darrell, Marvin, and Karel. They adopted a daughter, Janice, in
1957. She went back to teaching first grade in Storden, Minnesota from 1965
to 1971. In her retirement she taught Sunday School, raised Pomeranian dogs,
sold Avon, and gave many speeches to various groups about what it was like
to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. She was a great storyteller. Teaching
was her first love; she often said if she hadn't met Carl, she never would
have married, but continued to teach school all her life. They lived on the
same farm for 56 years until her husband's death on July 25, 1997. She came
to Cave Junction, Oregon to live with her son and daughter-in-law, Marvin
and Gail Kleve, in November of 1997, and became a resident of Spring Pointe
Specialty Care Community on October 1, 2001.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Darrell and Cindy of
Wheatland, MO, Marvin and Gail of Cave Junction, OR, Karel and Shirley of
Hutchinson, MN and daughter Janice Kleve of Clear Lake, IA; 11 grandchildren
and 16 great-grandchildren. She was proceeded in death by her parents,
brothers Harvey, Merrill, and Fred, sister Catherine Ransom, and Carl, her
husband of 59 years.

Cremation services will be provided by Hull and Hull Funeral Directors.
Private services will by held at Spring Pointe on Wednesday, Oct 27;
Memorial service will be held in Fulda, Minnesota at a later time. She will
be laid to rest in Prairie Hill Cemetery in Fulda, Minnesota beside her
beloved Carl.