Posted: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 am
CASPER - Funeral services for Pearl E. Hahn, 82, of Edgerton, will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 11th, 2008, at Bustard Funeral Home with Bishop Ken Kinner officiating. Interment will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Pearl Eleanor Nicholson Hahn was born Dec. 29, 1925, in Lewiston, ID, to William Merle Nicholson and Florence May Hodge. She grew up in Washington state. Her family lived for a time in a homemade camper built on the back of a truck.
They followed the crops and picked fruit and vegetables.
She went to work as a "nanny" while still in High School and was not able to finish her schooling at that time.
She always had a love of learning and later earned her GED, studied for her LPN license and took college courses.
She married Nick Hahn on August 15, 1943, while be was serving in the Air Force. They moved to Wyoming in 1945, where Nick had grown up.
Pearl held many jobs, including cook, store clerk, dental assistant, secretary at Midwest High School and book keeper for Edgerton Service and Equipment Company.
In August of this year, she and Nick celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
She was a leader in Job's Daughters and a member of Eastern Star and Daughters of the Nile.
She became interested in painting in her 50's and became an accomplished artist.
She also enjoyed golfing, fishing and gardening. She loved animals and she and Nick always had a dog or two and usually more than one cat.
She was a wonderful cook. Homemade bread was her specialty.
Survivors include her husband, Nick of Edgerton; her daughter, Judy (Gordon) Saathoff of Buffalo; son, Nick Hahn Jr. of Edgerton; daughter, Billie Jean Gamhart of Edgerton and stepson, Carl (Edie) of Gillette; one brother Bill Nicholson of Yuma, AZ, and a sister, Ardith Ward of Anaconda, MT; nine grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Delores Marie Muir.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Humane Society or the Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital would be appreciated.
Bustard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.