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Lillian Lucile Fuglsang Hankemeier
November 28, 1919 – January 24, 2016
Lillian L. Hankemeier, 96, died Sunday, January 24, 2016, at the Anamosa Care Center following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held 3:00 P.M., Sunday, January 31, 2016, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Anamosa where friends may call after 1:00 p.m. Interment will be in the Antioch Cemetery at a later date.
Surviving are seen children, Glen (Nancy), Gerald (Karla), Daniel (Oliva), James, Hans (Barb), Karmen (Ken Funk) Farrington, Carla (Ken) Schutte, twenty-one grandchildren, thirty seven great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren, and a sister Ernestine Davis.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ben, a son Loren, a grandson, Todd and three siblings, Stuart, Ethel and Wilma.
Lillian Lucile Fuglsang was born November 28, 1919, at Jackson County, Iowa. She was the daughter of Hans and Bertha (Sumtum) Fuglsang. She graduated from Baldwin High School in 1939 and then attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls. She then taught in the area schools. She married J. Benjamin Hankemeier on June 4, 1941. Ben would precede her in death on October 20, 1997. Lillian was a mother and homemaker most of her life. When she had time she enjoyed writing and belonged to the Anamosa Writers Club.

Submitted by: Janet A. Brandt
Source: Maquoketa Sentinel-Press, Maquoketa, Iowa, January 30, 2016.

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