Obituary Record

Velda Viola (Kinyon) Hovendick
Died on 3/10/2002

Velda V. Hovendick, 86, of Blair, died Sunday, March 10, 2002, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, at First Lutheran Church in Blair. Interment will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Omaha. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 12, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home

Velda Viola Hovendick was born May 15, 1915, in Greenfield, Iowa, to Walter and F. Arilda (Young) Kinyon. She was one of five children. She was baptized April 14, 1946, at First Methodist Church in Omaha. She joined the church that same day.

She was confirmed into the Lutheran Church and joined St. John’s Lutheran Church on April 23, 1967.

She attended rural school in Adair County, Iowa, and graduated with honors from Orient, Iowa, High School.

She graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in home economics. She worked in the Extension Service for five years in Ohio and Iowa.

Prior to her marriage to Francis J. Hovendick on April 24, 1966, in Omaha, she was employed by the OEA Manor in Omaha as manger of the kitchen and the dining room.

She became a member of First Lutheran Church in Blair in January, 1971. Since her marriage, she enjoyed being a full-time homemaker. She was an active volunteer for First Lutheran Church, the Memorial Community Hospital Auxiliary, and the retirement homes in Blair. She always enjoyed traveling and doing hand work.

She is survived by two step-children, Lois Cudley and Duane Hovendick of Blair, four grand-children, two brothers and sisters-in-law, Jack and Leita Kinyon and Keith and Myrtle Kinyon, all of Greenfield, Iowa.

Memorials are suggested to First Lutheran Church or to the donor’s other favorite charities.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home in Blair is in charge of arrangements.

~There is an additional obituary on file at the Blair Public Library published in the Omaha World Herald on March 12, 2002. It does not contain any additional information.

Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 3/12/2002


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