Margaret Henrietta Hale

NORFOLK — Funeral service for Margaret Henrietta Hale, 88, Norfolk, were May 30 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Norfolk. Father Pat McLaughlin officiated the service. Interment was at the Prospect Hill Cemetery, Norfolk.

Visitation was one hour prior to the service Tuesday, also at the church. Margaret died May 23, 2023, at the Faith Regional Hospital, Norfolk. Stonacek Funeral Chapel was in charge of the arrangements. Margaret was born June 6, 1934, in Lebanon, Mo., to Will and Marie (Caufield) Kuhn. She attended St. Frances De Sales Catholic School to the eighth grade in Lebanon. She then graduated from Lebanon Public High School in 1952. Margaret was a Carrier Bookkeeper for the Lebanon Daily News and a USO Junior Hostess for the Lebanon USO. There she met her future husband, St. Gerald Hale, Wayne. They were married Nov. 23, 1953, at the St. Frances De Sales Catholic Church, Lebanon.

Margaret and Gerald moved to Wayne, after his discharge from the United States Army. Together they farmed and fed cattle in Wayne County and she worked at the Colonial Manor, Randolph, for 10 years. They moved to Norfolk, in 1999. Gerald died May 1, 2001.

Margaret was a member of the Sacred Heart Church Parish and Sacred Heart Altar Society. She enjoyed traveling with her husband and reading.

Margaret is survived by a son, Brad (Donna) Hale, Elkhorn; a daughter, Carla (Tom) Grosserode, Norfolk; a grandson and a granddaughter, three stepgrandchildren, two great-grandsons, one great-granddaughter, three stepgreat-grandsons and three stepgreat-granddaughters; a sister-in-law, Winona Kreycik, Verdigre; and nieces and nephews.

Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald; a daughter, Katrina; her parents, Will and Marie Kuhn; two brothers, John Kuhn and his wife, Pauline, Lebanon, Mo., and Robert Kuhn and his wife, Francis Kuhn, Blythewood, S.C.; a sister, Mary Mills, and her husband, John, Springfield, Mo.; brother-in-law, Earl Winner, Missoula, Mont.; sister-in-law, Darlene Lockwood, and her husband, Don, Ronan, Mont.; and brother-in-law, Marvin Kreycik, Verdigre.