Anies Hillson, 81, of Charles City, died Monday, May 12, 2008, at the 9th Street Chautauqua Guest Home in Charles City.
A funeral Mass for Anies Hillson will be held 11:00 a.m. Friday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Reverend Carl Ries, pastor, and Reverend Brian Shepley will concelebrate the Mass. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery at Charles City.
Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday where there will be a Rosary recited at 4:30 p.m. and a Vigil Scriptural Wake Service will be held at 7 p.m.
Anies Clara DeMets Hillson was born February 10, 1927, at Ellendale, Minn. the daughter of Achiel and Bertha (DeJonkere) DeMets. She graduated from Austin High School at Austin, Minn. On June 3, 1948, she was united in marriage to Donald Hillson at Queen of Angels Catholic Church in Austin, Minn. In 1949 they moved to Charles City. From 1945 to 1948 Anies was employed with Federated Mutual Insurance in Owatonna, Minn. and from 1968 to 1989 she worked in the food service program at the Charles City Community Schools. She was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Saint Catherine Circle and Rosary Society. Anies and Donald loved to fish, spending summer vacations from 1967-2001 at Lake Kabetogama in northern Minnesota. She loved baking and doing crafts; crocheting afghans and doing plastic canvas Christmas ornaments and many other things. Anies always looked forward to spending time with her family and sharing their lives together. She will be remembered as a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother.
Living family members include four children, Tom (Glenda) Hillson of Ames, Steve (Joan) Hillson of Owasso, Okla., David (Cynthia) Hillson of Mooresville, N.C. and Denise (Steve) Long of Alameda, Calif.; 9 grandchildren, Tom (Maggie) Hillson, Angela, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Katie, Kristin, Hannah and Abbey Hillson and Max Long; and a great grandson, Chance Hillson.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Donald, on January 3, 2008; two brothers, Maurice and Leo DeMets; and two sisters, Laura Becker and Bernice Weum.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to the Immaculate Conception School, 1203 Clark Street, Charles City, IA 50616.
The Hauser Funeral Home, (641) 228-2323, www.hauserfh.com, in Charles City, is in charge of arrangements.
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