KATHRYN M. HAZEN, 98, of Cherokee, Iowa went to be with the Lord and her Heavenly Father on Tuesday morning July 14, 2020 in the Cherokee Regional Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday July, 18, 2020 at the First Church of Christ in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor David Hall and Pastor Bob Blair will officiate. Burial will be in the Marcus-Amherst Cemetery at Marcus, Iowa. There will be a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. at the church on Saturday. Visitation will be on Friday July 17, 2020 from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. with the family present from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Please practice social distance guidelines when attending the visitation and funeral. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com .

Kathryn was born on April 9, 1922 at Chicago, Illinois to Michael & Katherine (Naglich) Hlad, who immigrated to the United States in 1912 from Yugoslavia. She lived in Chicago, through her childhood and early adult years. She enjoyed singing with her church, the Lawndale Baptist Church. She had the opportunity to sing in the choir at a Billy Graham Crusade at Soldier Field. Through her church she sang in the choir and played a musical instrument (from her homeland) in the orchestra. She lived near the iconic Lincoln Park in Chicago and rode the street car to work as a young woman. She was employed at Campbell Soup Company, where she met her husband Kermit. During World War II, she worked at Western Electric in Chicago. She talked often about the hardships of the Great Depression.

She was united in marriage to Kermit Hazen on June 5, 1943 at the Lawndale Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. They moved to Cleghorn, Iowa later that year, where they farmed for 25 years. In 1971, they moved their family to Corydon, Iowa. Kathryn worked for Graham's Department Store and then for Home Health Services at the Wayne County Hospital. They moved to New Berlin, Illinois for 11 years before returning to Iowa in November of 2000. Kermit and Kathryn moved to the Beck in Cherokee in 2007. In 2016, she moved to Omaha to live with her daughter, Joyce.

Kathryn enjoyed reading, embroidery and gardening. She was a member of the First Church of Christ in Cherokee, where she sang in the choir, was a member of Esther Circle and participated in church special occasions.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Kermit on August 10, 2011, a son Rodney on October 1, 2012, brother George Hlad, two sisters Barbara Weir and Mildred Sumonja.

She is survived by her two children: Joyce Hazen of Blair, Nebraska; David Hazen of Sherman, Illinois; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren: Michelle Hazen of Pleasant Plains, Illinois and her family Madeline and Brody; Renee Hazen of St. Louis, Missouri; brother-in-law Jim Whitworth of Wichita, Kansas; also many loving nieces and nephews.