Person ID: I5856879316

Hilda Christina Dahl

28 FEB 1883 – 8 DEC 1969

Female

Married: 17 Oct 1918 — Huron, Beadle, South Dakota, United States

Notes

  • !BIRTH: On her father's homestead in Lucas Township near Cottonwood. EDUCATION: Sioux Falls (now Sioux Valley) Lutheran Hospital, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, nursing degree, 1915. OCCUPATION: Registered nurse. BURIAL: English Lutheran Cemetery (from Amy Van Hyning) NOTES: In 1918 she married Frank Moody Hackett who died in 1920, leaving Hilda with one child, Orwoll Milton Hackett. Hilda never remarried, and spent at least the next 45 years of service to others in the capacity of nursing at various hospitals as well as helping family at times of illness. From the end of WW II Hilda lived in Cottonwood and cared for her mother, Sarah, until she died in 1949 and then keeping house for the Sisson family after her sister, Mabel, died and assisting her nephews, Keith and Ward Sisson, who suffered from muscular dystrophy. At age 82, and no longer physically able to help the Sissons, she joined her son Milton and family at Arlington. Va., until her death in 1969. These and additional details are from (ORWOLL DOC 'A, by Milton Hackett) PROBLEM: D-040 spells it Hilda Christine.