Marguerite E. Hewitt, 100
Cold Spring
Nov. 1, 1915 – Dec. 23, 2015
Marguerite E. Hewitt, 100, of Cold Spring and formerly of St. Joseph, died Dec. 23, 2015 at her home.
Her funeral was held on Dec. 30 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in St. Joseph. The Rev. Eberhard Schefers officiated. Burial took place in Assumption Cemetery.
Hewitt was born Nov. 1, 1915 in Foley to Estelle (Willing) and John Edward Kasner. She married Manford “Duke” Hewitt on March 25, 1940 in St. Cloud. She was a member of the Church of St. Joseph for the last 37 years. Marguerite attended the College of St. Benedict and then transferred to the St. Cloud Teachers College where she earned her bachelor’s degree in education in 1939. She worked in the college library and later in the city library in St. Paul and St. Cloud.
The Hewitt family previously lived in St. Paul. Marguerite served on the following: board member for the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women; lector for her parish church; and reader for the Minnesota Services for the Blind. She continued her services as lector at the Church of St. Joseph and reading for the blind for the St. Cloud Visitor, the St. Cloud Retired Senior Volunteer Program’s Radio for the Blind and the RSVP’s program for St. Benedict’s Monastery. Under the RSVP program she also read for many of the programs of the St. Cloud school district including the Minnesota Educational Cooperative Service Unit, Minnesota Academic Excellence Foundation and disability programs. She contributed to her parish school as a part of the Great Books Foundation. She was a participant with the Whitney Variety Troopers, the Women’s Pool Club and the Whitney Tappers. Home activities included her researching and recording family histories for both the Kasner and Hewitt families, knitting afghans and writing letters.
Survivors include the following: children, G. Michael Hewitt, captain, U.S. Navy (Ret) and wife Lynda of Noank, Conn.; Dianne (Vincent) DeVargas of St. Joseph; James P. (MaryJo) Hewitt of Burnsville, Minn.; grandchildren, Heather (Rodney) Denman; James M. ( Maury) Hewitt; Paul D. DeVargas; John M. (Lara) DeVargas; Evan (Christopher) Cohoe; David V. DeVargas; Michael J. (Danielle) Hewitt; Daniel J. DeVargas; Amanda Hewitt and Allison (Daniel) Johnson; 15 great-grandchildren; sisters, Lucille Pettijohn of Grand Marais, Minn.; Dorothy Chamberlain, Faribault, Minn.; and Mary Ellen Dietman of St. Cloud; other nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband, “Duke” in 2011; her parents; and brother, Edward.
Arrangements were with Daniel Funeral Home, St. Joseph.
