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Sylvester, Hazel Helen
Hazel Helen Sylvester, 91, of Elkader and formerly of the Littleport and Strawberry Point areas, died Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, at Central Community Hospital in Elkader.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Hope Lutheran Church, Littleport, with the Rev. Lin Reichstadter officiating. Burial will follow in Union Cemetery, rural Littleport.
Friends may call from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Leonard Funeral Home in Elkader, and after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Survivors include her children, Dale Sylvester Jr. of Strawberry Point, Dorothy McGinty of Franklin, Tenn., Larry (Connie) Sylvester of Elkader, Roger (Fofy) Sylvester of Beaver Creek, Ohio, Mary Lee Yeager, Littleton, Colo., and Owen (Susan) Sylvester, Elkport; 23 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; 14 great-great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Berdina Putzier, Strawberry Point, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dale, in 1996; two brothers, Howard and Carl Putzier; two sisters, Mildred Corson and Florence Cueno and a grandson, Daryl Yeager.
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