Clara Floriatine Walker

F, (21 July 1904 - 18 October 2000)
     Clara Floriatine Walker was born on 21 July 1904 at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri. She was the daughter of Amos Thomas Walker and Emily Viola Allnutt. Clara Floriatine Walker married, at age 15, James Edward Hahn on Wednesday, 14 January 1920 at Maysville, DeKalb County, Missouri. Clara Floriatine Walker died on 18 October 2000 at Saint Joseph Hospital, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, at age 96 years, 2 months and 27 days. She was buried on 20 October 2000 in the Memorial Park Cemetery, located in Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri.
     Clara F. (Walker) Hahn, 96, St. Joseph, died Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000, at a St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Hahn had been employed as a housekeeper for the Ernest E. Duncan home for many years.

Born in Chillicothe, Mo., on July 21, 1904, she had resided in Cameron, Mo., prior to moving to St. Joseph in 1958.

Mrs. Hahn was an honorary member of the Auxiliary of the Thalia, Va., Volunteer Fire Department and served as the ribbon-cutter for the 2nd annual Southside Fall Festival in St. Joseph.

On Jan. 14, 1920, she married James E. Hahn in Maysville, Mo. He died in 1957.

Mrs. Hanh also was preceded in death by three sons, James F., Millard W. and an infant; her parents, Amos T. and Emily V. Walker; seven brothers, Arthur, Morris, Delbert, Robert, Ruben, Lester, and Hubert Walker; and five grandchildren.

Surviving: three daughters, Clara May Sheffler, St. Joseph, Eula B. Kerr, Leavenworth, Kan., and Georgie L. Sifers, Virginia Beach, Va; a son, Marvin, Cameron; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Service: 10:30 a.m. Friday, Meierhoffer Family Funeral Service, St. Joseph. Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Joseph. Family visitation: 6 to 8 tonight, at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Employee Trust Fund of the Heartland Foundation.

St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, Mo. (Thursday) October 19, 2000.

Clara F. (Walker) Hahn, 96, St. Joseph, 10:30 a.m. today, Meierhoffer Family Funeral Services. St. Joseph. Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Joseph.

In the obituary of Mrs. Hahn, which appeared in Thursday's News-Press, a fact was not submitted for publication. She was preceded in death by a brother, Jessie Gail.

St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, Mo. (Friday) October 20, 2000.
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