64630_Mae A._Haiden
MASON CITY | Mae A. Haiden, 90, of Mason City, died Tuesday (Oct. 8, 2013) at Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday (Oct. 12, 2013) at Epiphany Parish-St. Joseph Catholic Church, 302 Fifth St. S.E., Mason City, with the Rev. Rodney Allers as celebrant. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.
A Visitation will be held at Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., Mason City, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday (Oct. 11, 2013). The Catholic Daughters of the Americas will lead the Rosary beginning at 6:30 and will be followed by a Scriptural Wake service.
Mae Adele Studer was born on May 11, 1923, to Alphonse and Isabel (Haverly) Studer on a farm west of Wesley; she was one of six sisters and one brother. She attended St. Joseph Parochial school through the eighth grade and graduated from Wesley High School in 1942, while in high school she played on the girls basketball team.
In 1942 she and her sister, Julie, and lifelong friend, Florence Goepel, went to Wichita, Kan., to work for Beechcraft Aircraft, building two engine training planes for the Army. They did their part to support the war effort.
In 1946 she left for California to work for Sears mail order. She helped put a dent in the glass ceiling when she applied for and received the job of control buyer for ladies ready to wear sporting wear. At that time, jobs in that field were entirely male dominated. She retired in 1968 due to health reasons.
She married Richard (Dick) Haiden on May 19, 1962, at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. They lived in Downey, Calif., until Dick retired in 1988. Following Dick~s retirement they moved to Mason City where they built a house on Briarstone Lake, living there until their health failed and they moved to Kentucky Ridge Assisted Living in September 2005.
Mae loved her potted plants and doing pottery. She excelled in ceramics and oil painting, having always been very artistic, she was also an avid sewer and crocheter and loved canarys. Her greatest love however was her family.
Those grateful in sharing in Mae~s life are her daughters, Mary (Cameron) Skill, Downey, Calif., and Ann Haiden, Los Gatos, Calif.; granddaughters, Michelle and Elizabeth Skill; sisters in law, Isabel Barker, Josephine (Dick) Sperl, Joan (Ross) Prout, and Kitty Studer; brother in law, Jerald Haiden; family friend, Herbert “Tud” Goepel, Santa Fe Springs, Calif.; and many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Richard; and her siblings, Gerald Studer, Phyllis Kelch, Elaine Downs, Julie Jarvis, Rita Young, and Rose Gerdes; as well as her lifelong friend, Florence Goepel.
Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapels, 126 Third St. N.E., Mason City. 641-423-2372. ColonialChapels.com