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 1908 - 1988 (79 years)
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| Name |
Lula Zola COLWELL |
| Birth |
11 Sep 1908 |
Maitland Missourri, U.S. of A.  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
6 May 1988 |
Calgary, Alberta Canada |
| Burial |
10 May 1988 |
Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Calgary AB. |
| Person ID |
I010 |
ABHauswirths |
| Last Modified |
8 Mar 2014 |
| Family |
Otto Carl HAUSWIRTH, b. 15 Oct 1895, Salsbury, Missourri, U.S. of A. d. 2 Apr 1974, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
26 Jun 1933 |
Knox United Church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Family ID |
F1 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Taken from document # 0001 - Hauswirth, FUNERAL DIRECTORS STATEMENT OF DEATH of Lula Zola Hauswirth and filed by Robert (Bob) Hauswirth, the following:
1) Name of Funeral Home "The Garden Chapel" , Calgary, Calgary.
2) Name, date and place of death, date of funeral and burial.
3) Cemetary, "Mountail View Memorial Gardens".
4) Contains the name , address, and relationship of one next of kin and information providor, Robert Hauswirth.
Taken from document # 0002 - Hauswirth, CERTIFICATION OF CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP of Lula Zola Hauswirth and filed by Robert (Bob) Hauswirth, the following:
1) Date Certificate issued, January 27, 1966.
2) Name, address, birth place, date of birth, marital status, sex, description including height, complexion, eye and hair color and distinguishing marks of Lula Zola Hauswirth.
Taken form document #0003 - Hauswirth, ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR DEMITT for Lula Zola Hauswirth and filed by Robert (Bob) Hauswirth, the following:
1) Date joined and dismissed.
2) Lodge Name and its location.
# 0004 - HauswirthMARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
The marriage certificate of the marriage of Zola Colwell of Calgary and Otto Hauswirth of Dalemead, giving the date of marriage, June 26, 1933 at the Knox United Church, minister and witnesses Zela Colwell and Frank Winkler.
#0001 - ColwellLETTER OF INTRODUCTION, GARBUTT BUSINESS COLLEGE
This letter, dated September 26, 1929, contains the couses taken, the grades received, text books used and dates attended College.
#0002 - Colwell
All other information given to this record by her son Robert Hauswirth from memory.
Zola as she was know started her career as a secretary working for Lyle Bros real estate in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Her secretarial training was at the private Garbutt's Business College in Calgary. This was in the depression years of the 1930's for North America. She was layed off her job when business slowed to a trickle at Lyle's and decided to go back to study being a teacher planning to go to Maryville Missouri. Money she had saved up was needed for the family and she never made it back to school to study to be a teacher. She was somewhat bitter toward some of the Colwell family members because of this (see memoirs of Robert Hauswirth and family history of the Colwell and Hauswirth familiers and there kin).
Mom then married and became a farmer's wife settling on the farm started by Otto Hauswirth her husband (SE 1/4, sec 19, twnsp 22, R26, W4). Mom had the temperment of an artist which was some what tempermental. She was gifted as a painter and loved music. She nearly always read sheet music to play when playing the violin and piano. This love of music caused her to drive both her children, Bob and Dawna, into music lessons (with limited success).
Her health later gave problems when she developed high blood pressure and later died of a stroke. Probably her temperment and the stress this caused her added to her medical problems.
During her career as a farmer she raised turkeys and chickens as well as kept a big garden. I remember the garden harvests in the fall of the year and especially the canning of young chickens and the making of a ten gallon crock of sauer kraut. The poultry was her spending money. She did not like house work or washing such things as the cream separator, dishes or the milk pails. The cream came from milking one to three milk cows which provided a weekly cream check from the creamery which was a welcome trickle of cash flow in the 1930's. Later Dawna and Bob bought her a dish washer knowing her dread of washing dishes but that was new technology she never quite managed.
Mom had the great manual dexterity of an artist but driving a car was a chore for her when I was a very small child. When she first married she couldn't drive. She had to learn in a hurry. Dad showed her how to shift gears, break and use the accelerator pedal and sent her on her way in his old 1926 Dodge roadster. She poked on at a slow five to ten miles per hour for the first while as she got used to steering. Shifting, clutching, using the choke, etc all nearly at the same time just nearly defeated her. Her solution was to ignore the choke and a few other minor controls on the dash hoping she could get the car moving if she was starting with a cold engine. She would start the engine and imediately pump the accelerator pedal to keep the engine running. This she had to for she was ignoring the choke. She would then shift to first gear and let out the clutch. Usually the car would sputter, caugh and die. She would restart the engine and pump the accererator pedal causing the engine to go into sucessive fits of screaming as she raced the engine almost as it she was punishing it for daring to act that way. This time she let out the clutch but with the engine racing. Most of the time it would die again. She then would repeat the previous step with more racing and punishment for the engine. By now the engine would be warm enought to run but this time when letting out the clutch with the engine racing the wheels would spin, dirt, rocks and gravel would shoot rearward as she and the car took off in the other direction. In 1952 Dad bought a new car with an automatic choke and some of her troubles disappeared. In 1956 Dad traded cars for one with both an automatic choke and automatic transnission and her troubles with driving were over.
She could be persuaded to drive the truck during seeding and harvest as well as do other farm chores but she refused to milk the cow or dive a tractor in the fields.
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