Honore Mary Huse

Honore Mary Huse, 80, was born into eternal life on April 28, 2008 at her home on the family farm near Jackson, Nebraska. Services were held on Saturday, May 03, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Jackson, Nebraska with Father Paul M. Albenesius officiating. Interment was in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in rural South Sioux City, Nebraska. Honore was born February 12, 1928, on a farm in Burt County, Nebraska, the daughter of Joseph A. and Agnes E. (Tighe) Huse and was the first child baptized in the then new St. Patrick's Church in Tekamah, Nebraska. Her parents later farmed at Glenwood, Iowa where she lived until moving to the Jackson farm in 1931. Honore attended grade school at the St. Catherine's Academy in Jackson, high school at Hubbard, Nebraska and the St. Clare Academy at Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, graduating in 1945. She attended Mt. Marty Junior College in Yankton, South Dakota from 1945 to 1947 and then taught elementary school at Winnebago, Nebraska and Hubbard, Nebraska. She continued her education at the Univerity of Nebraska, receiving her BS in Education in 1951. Honore taught at the Folwell Elementary School in Rochester, Minneso...[more]

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until returning to Jackson to act as caregiver for her mother. She then taught school at Jackson before earning her MS degree in Elementary Eduaction at UN Lincoln in 1957. She resumed teaching in the Sioux City Community School District serving Bryant, North Junior, Hoover Junior and Hoover Middle Schools until her retirement in 1991. Honore had continued her post MS education at USD, Vermillion, South Dakota, Mankato State at Mankato, Minnesota, Briar Cliff College in Sioux City, Iowa, St. Norbert College in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska and Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Honore was a member of St. Patrick's Church at Jackson where she served as a Eucharistic Minister, Lector and Choir member. She belonged to the Altar Society; Catholic Daughters of America Court 2055, Mary our Queen; the Red Hat Society; Siouxland Retired Educators; the Iowa State Education Association; the National Education Association and the Siouxland Senior Center. Honore is survived by her brother, John and his wife, Rosemarie Huse of North Sioux City, South Dakota; her sister-in-law, Mary Louise (Edgar) Husse of West Newton, Massachusetts; eight nieces and nephews, Thomas Allen (Deborah) Huse of Watertown, Massachusetts, William David Huse of Delmar, California; Joseph Albert (Cathy) Huse of Paris, France, Mary Kathryn Huse of Belmont, Massachusetts, Patricia Honore Huse (Chris) McVeigh of Burlington, Vermont, Susan Marie Huse (John) McDonogh of Sandwich, Massachusetts, Sandra Susan Huse of Glassell Park, California, John Joseph Huse II of Scottsdale, Arizona and many cousins, grand nieces, nephews, and a great-grandniece, Keagan. Honore was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Agnes Huse and her brother, Dr. Edgar F. Huse PhD. At Honore's request, casket bearers will be her Nephews, Tom Huse, Joseph Huse, John Huse II; Godson, George O'Gara; Past Students, Joe Gill, Bill Sullivan, Larry Albenesius; and Friends, Wayne Knudsen, Ron and Donny Hogh, Andy Lux, and Phil Kramper.