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Services are 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 19 at First Lutheran Church in Fremont for Ethel Hoier, 81 of Fremont who died Dec. 16, 1996 at Merrick Manor in Fremont. Rev. Mark Grorud and Rev. David Jensen are officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Cemetery.

Ethel Hoier was born Sept. 25, 1915 in Omaha to Anton and Sena Svengard Andersen. She grew up on a farm near Arlington and attended the rural march School.

She graduated from Arlington High School, attended Wayne State Teachers College and graduated from Midland Lutheran College with a bachelor of science degree in elementary education.

She taught school for 31 years in rural schools in Washington and Dodge counties, the elementary school in Valley and at Clarmar and Grant Schools in Fremont. She retired in 1980.

She was a member of the Fremont Area Retired Teachers Association, Alpha Delta Kappa Teachers sorority, Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and First Lutheran Church in Fremont.

She married Howard H. Hoier June 10, 1936 at her parents' farm home near Arlington.

She and her husband farmed in Washington County near Fontanelle. They moved to Fremont in 1956.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters.

She is survived by her husband, Howard; a daughter, Janet Robertson of Sioux City, Iowa; two sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Karen Hoier of Des Moines, Iowa and Allan and Kellie Hoier of Ottawa, Kans.; seven grandchidren; two step-grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; four sisters and a brother-in-law, Edna and Hugh Mitchell of Seattle, Wash.; Florence Lyons of Denver, Colo.; Senora Hilgenkamp of Fremont and Patricia Wipperling of Bellevue and a brother, Ansel Andersen of Arlington.

Memorial are suggested to her church and to the American Cancer Society.

Ludvigsen Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

See Find-A-Grave Memorial #132062757