EDITH HOHULIN

LAMAR- Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, April 15, at the Apostolic Christian Church for Edith Sophie Hohulin, 92, Lamar, who died Monday, April 8, 2019. Burial will be in the Apostolic Christian Church cemetery in Barton County.

Arrangements are under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home.

Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the World Relief Fund.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences left online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include two daughters, Becky Hohulin and Bonnie Beutel and husband Keith; one son, Bubs Hohulin and wife Marilyn; seven grandchildren, Jamie Beutel, Jackie Gurrola and husband Ricardo, Jeremy Beutel and wife Meghan, Jon Beutel and wife Natalie, Joe Beutel and wife Mandi, Bill Hohulin and wife Amanda and Steven Hohulin; four great-grandchildren, Savannah Gurrola, Leah Gurrola, Malachi Gurrola, Wyatt Beutel and Keylee Hohulin; a brother, Lester Kaiser and wife Irene; a large extended family and countless friends.

She was preceded in death by one son, William; two brothers, Harry Kaiser and wife Lavern and Kenneth Kaiser and wife Mavis and her husband of over 66 years, Martin Hohulin.

Mrs. Hohulin was born June 13, 1926, in Tazewell County, near Morton, Ill., to Carl and Lillian (Stortz) Kaiser. She was reared in the Morton, Ill. area, attending Prairie Star School through the eighth grade. She was a member of the Apostolic Christian Church.

She married Martin Hohulin on Oct. 17, 1948, a union which would last until his passing in 2015. Together they reared four children, William Martin, Bonita Lillian, Rebecca Sue and Martin Dale “Bubs”. They had lived in a variety of places in central Illinois and Fort Scott, Kan., before settling in Lamar in 1973.

She worked for a time as a keypunch operator for Caterpillar, prior to getting married and later cleaned the Apostolic Christian Church in Tremont, Ill. Her primary job in life was rearing her children and taking care of her family. She always raised a large garden and spent the summer months canning and freezing fruits and vegetables. She was also an accomplished seamstress, sewing many of her and her daughters’ clothes.