Mabel Ethel Hogan Schweers, 96

Mabel Ethel Hogan Schweers, 96, of Des Moines, died Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, at Mercy Hospice.

A wake service will be 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Corning, Iowa. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Corning.

Mabel was born March 30, 1918, in Corning, to Thomas Francis Hogan and Ethel Eva (Edwards) Hogan. She graduated from Corning High School in 1935 and Iowa State University in 1939.

She married Arthur Schweers on June 25, 1941, and they farmed near Lenox, Iowa, in southeast Adams County for 40 years. They lived in Corning and Griswold after leaving the farm. Mabel moved to Des Moines in 2001.

Mabel and Art were gift bearers at the Mass that Pope John Paul II celebrated at Living History Farms in 1979. In the basket of corn they presented were enough ears of corn for themselves and each of their children.

Mabel is survived by 10 children: Teresa Parmenter of Des Moines, David (Monna) Schweers of Scottsdale Ariz., Rita (Jim) Hughes of Council Bluffs Iowa, Anne (Tom) Pogge of Omaha, Catherine (Bill) Riley of Lenox, Thomas (Joleen) Schweers of Omaha, Edward Schweers of Arvada, Colo., Cecelia (Steve) Tonn of Blair, Francis (Cindy Sorlien) Schweers of Albion and Agnes (Ben) Casey of Des Moines; daughter-in-law Marcia (Paul) Maynes of Lenox; 40 grandchildren; and 53 great-grandchildren. She is survived by sisters-in-law: Esther Hogan, Alice (Earl) Boes, Charlotte Schweers, Adrienne Schweers and brother-in-law Robert (Velma) Schweers.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Art; her son, Herman; her parents; her brothers: Rev. Francis Hogan S.J., and Donald Hogan; sisters: Edna (Ernest) Hogan DuBois and Mary Jane (Don) Hogan Jackson; son-in-law Neil Parmenter; sisters-in-law: Viola (Ed) Lampman and Marcella (Buddy) Berger; brothers-in-law: Clarence (Babe) Schweers, Leo (Mary Frances) Schweers, Joe (Ethel) Schweers, Vincent (Helen) Schweers and Albin Schweers. Memorial contributions may be made to the French Icarian Colony Foundation, St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church or the Blair Public Library Foundation. ~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~