Phyllis Mae Hagerbaumer, 95, of Minden, formerly of Fremont, Hooper and Lyons

Phyllis Mae Hagerbaumer age 95, of Minden, formerly of Fremont, Hooper, and Lyons, passed away at the Long Term Care Unit of the Kearney County Health Services in Minden on Thursday, September 18, 2014.  Funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23rd, at Immanuel Lutheran Church east of Hooper with the Rev. Jonathan Ripke officiating. Burial will follow in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.  Visitation will be held at the Ludvigsen Mortuary in Fremont, on Monday, September 22nd, from 2 to 8 p.m., with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m.  Memorials are suggested to the Church.   Access the online guestbook @ www.ludvigsenmortuary.com.

Phyllis was born July 22, 1919, the second of five children, to Herman and Lillie (Miller) Rewinkel on the family farm 3 ½ miles south of Lyons. She was baptized a child of God at St. John’s Lutheran Church near Lyons, by the Rev. A.W. Lambrecht on August 24, 1919. Phyllis was confirmed in the faith at St. John’s Lutheran on May 8, 1932, by the Rev. John Harms. Her confirmation verse was John 10:27-28 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.” She began elementary School at Gleeson School District #43 and finished at St. John’s Lutheran parochial school. Phyllis graduated from Lyons High School in 1936.

On September 16, 1942, she was married to Harvey Hagerbaumer at St. John’s Lutheran parsonage near Lyons by Rev. John Harms. They farmed and lived on the Hagerbaumer home place east of Hooper for 49 years, growing corn, soybeans, and alfalfa. Phyllis took an active role in the farm and assisted her husband with raising hogs, cattle, and operating farm equipment. She managed her own egg-laying hens, and at one time had a flock of a thousand hens. In 1992, they retired to Fremont. After Harvey’s death in 2006, Phyllis moved to Minden to the Hinderlong Assisted Living.

Phyllis was an active member of Immanuel Lutheran, east of Hooper, and a member of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and the church quilting group, doing both fine quilting and quilts for Lutheran World Relief. She organized the Tower View Women’s Club in Washington County. Her hobbies were crocheting afghans, embroidery, gardening, canning and freezing, watercolor painting, cards, and handcrafts. Her husband raised a small field of milo in 1971, just to accommodate her love for sewing fabric milo-stuffed frogs.

Survivors-2 daughters, Carole Donley of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and Lori and husband Rev. Donald Hunzeker of Minden, 4 grandchildren: Jeff Donley, Jennifer Bishop and husband Erik, Jonathan Hunzeker and wife Andrea, Nathan Hunzeker, and a great grandchild Eli Bishop.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband Harvey; brothers Robert and Herman Rewinkel, Jr.: 2 sisters, Anna Rewinkel and Helen (Rewinkel) Konicek; and grandson Matthew Donley.

Phyllis Hagerbaumer