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Obituary for Florence H. Mulhauser
By Greg | January 16, 2007
The following obituary was published in several newspapers shortly after the recent death of my grandmother, Florence H. Mulhauser. It was written by her daughter Barbara.
YAKIMA, Washington: Florence H. Mulhauser, at the age of 92, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, at Memorial Hospital in Yakima. She was born Aug. 21, 1914, at the home ranch in St. Ignatius, the fourth of six children born to Edmond and Louise Grenier Hamel. She attended the Ursuline School and graduated from St. Ignatius High School. She went to Missoula to attend business school then went to work as a bookkeeper.
She married William R. Clemens in 1933, and from that marriage two daughters were born, Audrey Jean and Barbara Joan.
In 1947, she married Raymond Mulhauser. They had one son, Gerald.
Mom was a homemaker and did the bookkeeping for the family business for many years. She enjoyed working in the garden and loved to play the piano and organ. Florence lived most of her adult life in the Missoula Valley. In 2004 she moved to Yakima.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ray, sisters Helen Kennedy and Mildred Swartz and brothers Philip and Robert Hamel.
She is survived by her children, Audrey Foreman of Spokane, Barbara Lucey of Yakima, Wash., son Gerald (Amy) Mulhauser of Missoula; one sister, Edith (Parks) Whitmer of Carmichael, Calif.; eight grandchildren, Bill, Wayne (Brenda), Kathy, Ron (Joanna), all of Spokane, Gina (James), Michelle (Alan) of Yakima, Patrick of Chicago and Gregory (Kathryn) of Great Britain; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be on Saturday, Jan. 13, from noon-5 p.m. at Keith & Keith Funeral Home’s Ninth Avenue chapel. A memorial service will be Sunday at 1 p.m. at the funeral home, after which Mom will return to Missoula to rest next to Ray at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Contributions can be made to your favorite charity.
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