The Des Moines Register/1911/Herme F. Hahnen Dies in Hospital

Herme F. Hahnen Dies in Hospital. Iowa National Bank's Chief Clerk Is Victim of Appendicitis. Well Known Man. West High School Graduate and Organizer of Altoona Savings Bank Succumbs to a Short Illness. Herme F. Hahnen, 31 years old, chief clerk of the Iowa National bank, and a leader among the younger men in the banking circles of Des Moines, died at 7:10 o'clock Sunday morning at Mercy hospital of appendicitis followed by peritonitis. He was taken ill on Monday, February 13, and his case was critical from the beginning. Upon his removal to the hospital, the following Tuesday an operation was performed but his ailment was far advanced, and his life hung by a thread. Mr. Hahnen, who was born in Des Moines February 15, 1880, leaves a wife, who, before her marriage, was Miss Zora Courtney of Galesburg, Illinois, and two children, Gretchen, 9 years old, and Robert, 4 years old. He was married nine years ago. Parents Survive. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hahnen, 1070 West Seventh street, and six sisters and two brothers, survive. He was the second to die of a family of ten children. The brothers and sisters are E. A. Hahnen, 1348 Maple street; W. H. Hahnen of Joplin, Missouri; Mrs. M. R. Davis, Miss Minnie Hahnen and Miss Josephine Hahnen, 1070 West Seventh street; Mrs. Anna Wirt, 1543 West Fourth street; Mrs. Claude Englebeck, Fourteenth and Clark streets, and Mrs. D. B. Ransburg of Minneapolis. The funeral services will he held at St. John's Lutheran church, of which Mr. Hahnen was a member. Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Reverend A. B. Learner will officiate. Interment will be made in Woodland cemetery. The pallbearers will be former associates of Mr. Hahnen in the Iowa National bank. The deceased was a graduate of West High and had been in the banking business in Des Moines for eighteen years. Recently he was one of the organizers of the Altoona Savings Bank. He would have been vice president of the institution. Long Time Banker. Eighteen years ago he entered the employ of the New England Loan & Trust company as bookkeeper, remaining with it two years. He then went to the Citizens' National bank where he was bookkeeper for eight years, he joined the force of the Iowa National bank eight years ago and at his death was chief clerk with ten clerks under him. Being an expert accountant his services were frequently in demand by bankers generally. He was held in the highest esteem by his employees, and there is not a man connected with entire banking business in Des Moines who does not feel that he has suffered a great loss in Mr. Hahnen's death.