Hattie Honomichl, 97, of Wagner

Funeral Mass is 10:30 AM, Thursday, September 11, 2014 at St. John Catholic Church in Wagner. Burial is in the church cemetery, rural Wagner. Visitation is Wednesday from 4 to 5 PM at the Crosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wagner. Rosary/Wake services are 7 PM Wednesday at the church.

Hattie Helen Honomichl was born June 11, 1917 in Bon Homme County north of Avon, SOuth Dakota, the daughter of Paul and Pauline (Souhrada) Becvar. She died Monday, September 8, 2014 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Wagner.

Hattie attended Daisy rural school north of Avon through the eighth grade. She worked at various jobs in Avon, Tyndall and Omaha, NE.

Hattie married Joe Honomichl on January 31, 1940 at the Assumption Catholic Church in Dante. Together they farmed north of Wagner. Hattie enjoyed her family and did a lot of sewing for her kids, grandkids and great grandkids. She will be remembered for her love of her family, sewing, baking, kolaches, gardening, canning and her chickens. She made sure her family always got cards and cake on their birthdays.

Thankful for having shared his life are her daughter, Marlene Stepka and husband Ray of Tyndall; son, Larry of Wagner; three grandchildren, Beverly Stepka of Alcester, Yvette Stepka of Yankton and Kevin and wife Lee Ann Stepka of Tyndall; five great grandchildren: Thaddeus Giedd of Sioux Falls, Alyssa Giedd of Sioux Falls, Wyatt Stepka of Dell Rapids, Ty and Grant Stepka of Tyndall; sister, Ann Kotalik of Tabor; aunt, Angela Kortan of Tabor; and several other relatives and cousins.

Hattie was preceded in death by her husband Joe; two sons, Leonard and Robert; three brothers, Ed, Steve and Oscar Becvar; two sisters, Dorothy Nedved and Violet Becvar and her parents.