Hayzlett, Mary Katherine

Mary Katherine Hayzlett, 90, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Shenandoah, Iowa, died Monday, March 22, 2010, at Keystone Cedars, Cedar Rapids. Memorial service: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, Shenandoah, Iowa, by the Rev. Gary Fuller. The family will greet friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Hackett Livingston Funeral Home, Shenandoah. Private family graveside at Rose Hill Cemetery, Shenandoah, Iowa. Arrangements by Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Marion.

Survivors include her daughters, Kay (Robert) Nelson and Mary Beth (Craig) Applefield; three grandchildren, Jennifer, Andrew and Nick; and four great-grandchildren, Zackary, Joshua, Alexis and Elizabeth.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepmother, Alice Null; her first husband, Willard Hale; her second husband, Kenneth Hayzlett; and one brother, Hubert Null.

Katherine was born April 29, 1919, the daughter of Howard and Irene (Burks) Null, in Pickering, Mo. She married Willard Hale in 1940. In 1949, she married Kenneth Hayzlett. Katherine received her Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Mo. She was a valued member of the teaching staff at the Shenandoah Community Schools for 23 years. Katherine was a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the First Baptist Church in Shenandoah, and most recently the First Baptist Church/Church of the Bretheren in Cedar Rapids. She was a volunteer at the Shenandoah Hospital and Hospice of Mercy in Cedar Rapids. Katherine was a member of the Book Club at Keystone Cedars and enjoyed reading, quilting, cross stitch and traveling.

Memorials may be directed to: ISEA Scholarship Fund, Oldorf Hospice House in Hiawatha, First Baptist Church, Shenandoah, Iowa or the First Baptist Church/Church of the Bretheren, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Please sign the online guest book for Katherine at under obituaries.