1916
Hazel
2008
Hazel Chaney
March 14, 1916 — March 14, 2008
Hazel Mae (Kenny) Chaney, 92, a resident of Willmar since 1954, died on her birthday, Friday, March 14, at Rice Memorial Hospital.
Memorial services will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday at Peterson Brothers Funeral Home in Willmar with Rev. Chad Gilbertson of the Willmar United Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in Cloverleaf Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 hours prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Willmar Meals on Wheels or the Willmar United Methodist Church Home Visitation Program.
She was born March 14, 1916, the youngest of nine children to Thomas Robert "TR" and Katie (Kruse) Kenny on a farm near Hecla, South Dakota. She graduated from Hecla High School. After high school, she worked for several businesses in Britton and Watertown, South Dakota. There she met Preston Myron "PM" Chaney, a railroad employee, and they were married in Ortonville, Minnesota, in 1940. They raised Preston's three children, before having their own and before the railroad transferred PM to Willmar. Here, she stayed active caring for her children and helping at the United Methodist Church. Then she returned to work as a nurse's aide at Bethesda Nursing Home and later retired from the Willmar State Hospital after having earned her LPN degree through the hospital. After retirement, she was active in her church and with the state hospital and retired railroad workers' groups. She also maintained her home on Willmar's north side and enjoyed being a crossing guard for Lafayette Elementary School. Later, she moved to a condo, Phoenix on Fifth, and enjoyed her neighbors and condo activities. She was able to maintain independence with support from Dorothy Slagter Shockley, Irene Friedrich, Irene Whitmyre, Compassionate Care, the "Susan's" of the United Methodist Church, and Meals on Wheels until January 2008, when she moved into the Pleasantview Memory Care Unit.
She is survived by her son, Calvin Chaney of Willmar; her daughter, Kathy Newton of Denton, Texas; a sister Margaret Slaight of Britton, South Dakota; and several step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Preston Myron Chaney; his three children, Raymond, Frances, and Beverly; three brothers, Thomas, James, and George Kenny, and four sisters, Mary Hubert, Chloe Tschappat, Annie Colestock, and Maurine Kenny.
Memorial services will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday at Peterson Brothers Funeral Home in Willmar with Rev. Chad Gilbertson of the Willmar United Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in Cloverleaf Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 hours prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Willmar Meals on Wheels or the Willmar United Methodist Church Home Visitation Program.
She was born March 14, 1916, the youngest of nine children to Thomas Robert "TR" and Katie (Kruse) Kenny on a farm near Hecla, South Dakota. She graduated from Hecla High School. After high school, she worked for several businesses in Britton and Watertown, South Dakota. There she met Preston Myron "PM" Chaney, a railroad employee, and they were married in Ortonville, Minnesota, in 1940. They raised Preston's three children, before having their own and before the railroad transferred PM to Willmar. Here, she stayed active caring for her children and helping at the United Methodist Church. Then she returned to work as a nurse's aide at Bethesda Nursing Home and later retired from the Willmar State Hospital after having earned her LPN degree through the hospital. After retirement, she was active in her church and with the state hospital and retired railroad workers' groups. She also maintained her home on Willmar's north side and enjoyed being a crossing guard for Lafayette Elementary School. Later, she moved to a condo, Phoenix on Fifth, and enjoyed her neighbors and condo activities. She was able to maintain independence with support from Dorothy Slagter Shockley, Irene Friedrich, Irene Whitmyre, Compassionate Care, the "Susan's" of the United Methodist Church, and Meals on Wheels until January 2008, when she moved into the Pleasantview Memory Care Unit.
She is survived by her son, Calvin Chaney of Willmar; her daughter, Kathy Newton of Denton, Texas; a sister Margaret Slaight of Britton, South Dakota; and several step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Preston Myron Chaney; his three children, Raymond, Frances, and Beverly; three brothers, Thomas, James, and George Kenny, and four sisters, Mary Hubert, Chloe Tschappat, Annie Colestock, and Maurine Kenny.
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