Frances Hatfield

Frances Marie (Johnson) Hatfield, 97 of Spencer, IA, passed away Sunday, July 21, 2024 at the Longhouse Care Center in Spencer.

Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, July 26, 2024 in the Malvern Cemetery.

Loess Hills Funeral Home of Malvern is caring for Frances and her family.

Memorials: Family will direct memorials

OBITUARY
Frances Marie Hatfield, 97 of Spencer, IA, passed away on Sunday, July 21, 2024 at the Longhouse Care Center in Spencer.
Frances was born on May 27, 1927 in Glenwood, IA, one of five children of Lillian Grace (Stogdill) and Clyde Alva Johnson. She grew up and attended school in Malvern, IA through the eighth grade. Her family moved to Springfield, Illinois, then to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Lincoln High School in Milwaukee in 1945. Following school, Frances moved back to the Midwest, and held various jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, working at Swanson’s and Mutual of Omaha, before she became employed at Union Pacific Railroad, as a legal secretary. She retired in 1990.
Frances and Thomas Harold Hatfield were married on August 7, 1948 at the Methodist Parsonage in Malvern. Their marriage was blessed with a son Jeffrey Alan. In 1953, the Hatfield family moved to Colorado for a few years, before returning to live in Omaha in 1955.
Frances and Harold were married almost 37 years, when Harold died suddenly at their home in Omaha on April 28, 1985. She continued living in Omaha until May 2004, when she moved to Milford, Iowa to live near her son Jeff.
Frances enjoyed working on ceramics, listening to music, and reading. She especially loved visiting with family and friends.
In addition to her husband Harold, Frances was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Raymond Johnson and wife Betty, and Daniel Johnson; sisters, Carol Jacobs and husband John, and Bonnie O’Donnell and husband Gerald; niece Rhonda Jacobs; and nephew Craig O’Donnell; sisters-in-law, Leota Sutton and husband Delbert, Erma Walston and husband Melvin, and Kathryn Hatten and husband Robert; brothers-in-law, Art Hatfield and wife Thelma, and Everett Hatfield and wife Dorothy.
Frances is survived by her son Jeff Hatfield of Milford; nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.