Hazel Neuman Rohwer

rohwerFuneral services for 103-year-old Hazel Neuman Rohwer of St. James, Minnesota, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2016, at the United Methodist Church in St. James, with Reverend Clinton Firstbrook III officiating. The church is located at 225 Armstrong Boulevard South.

Interment will follow in Mount Hope Cemetery in rural St. James, located south of the city on Watonwan County Road #27.

Visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral service beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Online family condolences may be sent to: www.sturmfh.com.

Arrangements are with Sturm Funeral Home-St. James Chapel.

Hazel Neuman Rohwer passed away on Tuesday, November 29, 2016, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Society in St. James.

Hazel Olwen Sorenson was born on May 14, 1913, in rural Mankato, Minnesota, the daughter of Ole and Margaret (James) Sorenson. Hazel graduated from high school, spent two years attending a teacher’s college and worked towards her four-year degree in Education.

On November 26, 1937, she married Arthur Neuman.

Hazel was a school teacher her entire life. She taught in the public school in Butterfield, Minnesota prior to the the school district’s consolidation with the public school in Odin, Minnesota; in Osseo, Minnesota for two years; in Odin following Arthur’s dead and then returned to teach in Butterfield after the consolidation, retiring in 1978, after 30 years as an educator.

She served as editor-in-chief of the Mankato Teachers paper for several years.

Hazel married Elmer “Shorty” Rohwer on November 6, 1982.

During her lifetime, Hazel served as principal at Butterfield Elementary School, was a Sunday School teacher, church choir member, served on several church committee, and delivered Meals-On-Wheels.

She enjoyed reading, crossword puzzles, traveling, playing bridge, doing cross-stitch and watching sports on television.

Survivors include her children, Nancy Avery of East Wenatchee, Washington, Kathryn (Wayne) Newman of Rosemount, Minnesota, Prudy (Wayne) Anderson of New Richmond, Wisconsin, Bryan Rohwer of Chandler, Arizona and Deanna (Mike) Strenge of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her two husbands; parents; sister and brother-in-law, Audrey “Babe and Bud Reed; son-in-law, Don Avery and daughter-in-law, Brenda Rohwer.

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