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Vera Oswald Clark Hungerford was born to John and Lena (Meyners) Oswald on June 15, 1908; northwest of Putnam, Oklahoma on a farn homesteaded by her father in 1902. She died on Tuesday November 2, 2004 in the Thomas Nursing Center having reached the age of 96 years, 4 month, 17 days.
She married Orval Clark on June 6, 1939 at Enid, Oklahoma. They made their home on the farm northwest of Putnam until 1960, when they moved to Putnam where Vera was the telephone operator. They moved to Thomas in 1966. Orval passed away in December of 1976.
On December 27, 1978, she married Leslie Hungerford and he passed away on May 13, 1994.
She was prededed in death by her parents, John and Lena Oswald; an infant brother, Henry Oswald; and infant sister, Sophia Oswald. She leaves in her passing several cousins and host of friends.
The Nashua (Iowa) Reporter
August 1, 1928A LOVED MOTHER AT REST
Mrs. E.W. Flint Called by Death Thursday Morning, July 26, After Long Illness: "Lizzie Dinsmore, the daughter of Ann Willis and S.S. Waterbury, was born in Aztalan, Wis., on July 13, 1861. At the age of three years she came to Nashua with her parents, which place has since been her home. She attended school at the State Normal at Cedar Falls, and St. Marys Hall, at Fairbault, Minn., after which she taught for several years in the vicinity of Nashua and Charles City.
On October 10, 1889, she was married to Edwin Waldo Flint and resided on the home farm near Nashua.
To this union five children were born: Victor W. of Rochester, Minn.; Mrs. Pauline Hammond, Mrs. Avis Bonzer, Alvin W. and John S., all of Nashua.
She died on Thursday, July 26, 1928, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bonzer, being 67 years of age. This was the anniversary of her husband's death, which occured when he was the same age.
Besides her children and six grandchildren, she leaves to mourn her death two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Electa Danforth of Yankton, S. D.; Mrs. May Peters of Columbus, N.M.; John Waterbury of Parker, S.D.; and Willis Waterbury of Canby, Mn.
Death came as a relief after four and a half years of invalidism, following a stroke of paralysis.