On May 20, 1926, a new baby girl, Hilda Hazel, was born in the farm house home of Harry Klingemann and his wife Hilda. Hazel was to be the youngest of seven children growing up near Dripping Springs, Texas.
She learned to live, love and laugh as surely as she learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. At the tender age of eleven, her mother, Hilda, died. For the next several years Hazel was mothered by her only sister, Evelyn, just a few years older than Hazel. They remained best friends for the rest of her life. Hazel grew up, finishing school and pursuing a career in the business world. She met and married the love of her life, Clarence Marshall, and they shared nearly sixty years of traveling and simple pleasures such as fishing and home life together. Hazel loved her cats. She usually had at least two at a time. Her last and favorite cat was Samantha now buried in Hazel's back yard with a marker. Hazel spent her last three years largely homebound and missing the fellowship she had long enjoyed with friends, neighbors, and church family at St. John's Lutheran Church.
Hazel is survived by her sister, Evelyn Plowman, and nieces and nephews of three generations. She was predeceased by her parents, Harry and Hilda, brothers: Walter, Henry, Wilburt, Randolph, and Orville.
