Thalia Bata Hettema, 19202014 (aged 93 years)

Name
Thalia Bata /Hettema/
Given names
Thalia Bata
Surname
Hettema
Birth
Type: Birth of Hettema, Thalia
August 22, 1920 45 30
State: New York
Country: United States of America
Death of a paternal grandmother
City: Passaic
State: New Jersey
Country: United States of America
Death of a father
State: Hawaii
Country: United States of America
Death of a sister
Death of a husband
Death of a brother
City: Honolulu
State: Hawaii
Country: United States of America
Death
Family with parents
father
18751963
Birth: July 4, 1875 35 23 Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
Death: October 7, 1963Hawaii
mother
1890
Birth: 1890 Yerske, Reimerswaal Municipality, Zeeland, Netherlands
MARRIAGE OF HETTEMA, HARRY AND VOGEL, TESSIE MARRIAGE OF HETTEMA, HARRY AND VOGEL, TESSIEDecember 22, 1911Rochester Monroe, New York
4 years
elder sister
19151989
Birth: 1915 39 25 Michigan
Death: September 20, 1989Hale, Jani, Hawaii
3 years
elder brother
19182008
Birth: April 29, 1918 42 28 Rochester, New Yorkl
Death: November 5, 2008Hughson, Stanislaus, California
2 years
herself
19202014
Birth: August 22, 1920 45 30 Rochester, Monroe, New York
Death: May 7, 2014Kaneohe, Honolulu, Hawaii
Father’s family with Catherine
father
18751963
Birth: July 4, 1875 35 23 Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
Death: October 7, 1963Hawaii
father’s ex-wife
half-brother
Private
Family with William Ernest Word
partner
herself
19202014
Birth: August 22, 1920 45 30 Rochester, Monroe, New York
Death: May 7, 2014Kaneohe, Honolulu, Hawaii
Shared note

Name: Thilia Hettma
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii
Gender: Female
Age: 9
Marital Status: Single
Race: OC
Birthplace: New York
Estimated Birth Year: 1921
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Father's Birthplace: Holland
Mother's Birthplace: Holland
Enumeration District Number: 0029
Family Number: 39
Sheet Number and Letter: 2B
Line Number: 66
NARA Publication: T626, roll 2633
Film Number: 2342367
Digital Folder Number: 4661340
Image Number: 00896
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Harry M Hettma M 54 Holland
Wife Tessie Hettma F 39 Holland
Daughter Teresa Hettma F 15 New York
Son Myron Hettma M 11 New York
Daughter Thilia Hettma F 9 New York
Source Citation

"United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XH1N-25R : accessed 8 July 2012), Thilia Hettma in household of Harry M Hettma, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Note

Thalia Batta Hettema Word,
passed away on May 15, 2014,
She was born August 22, 1920
in Rochester, New York and
traveled to Honolulu at age two.

She grew up in Honolulu and
Hilo and graduated — from
Roosevelt High School, class of
38. After the December 7, 1941
attack on Pearl Harbor, she
tolled bandages with other
volunteers and worked as_a
supply clerk at Hickam AAFB
during the war. She met her
husband during the war and
they were married in Lima,
Peru, during his assignment
there as Marine attache’.
Follow on assignments were to
MCAS Ewa, Santa Ana, CA,
Norfolk, VA, and MCAS Kaneohe.
In 1955, the family moved into
their longtime home located at
Wilikoki Place, Kailua. She
worked at Kailua High School
as a substitute teacher and
secretary. After retiring, she
enjoyed a quiet life at home and
spent time with her grand-
children and great grand children,
plants, flowers and her cat.

She was preceded in death by
brothers Oscar and Myron)
(Mike) and sister Tress, her
husband of 43 years, LtCol
William E. Word, USMC_ Ret.
and son, Chief Petty Officer
John Wallace Word, USN Ret.
She is survived by her children
Kenneth, Leslie, Ross, Sydney,
and John's wife Jonelle, 13
grandchildren and 18 Great
Grandchildren, and numerous
nieces and nephews.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii)13 Jul 2014, SunPage B4