Thomas Hurd, 45, of Lawler, died Thursday, February 03, 2005 at
Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo.
 
Funeral services will be 10 am Monday, February 7, at Holy Family
Parish--St. Joseph Center in New Hampton with Reverend John Harpel
presiding.  Lisa Merry will be lector and Eucharistic Ministers will
be Bill and Joanne Hurd and Carol Showalter. The family will place the
pall and Toms' nieces and nephews will be gift bearers.

Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, New Hampton, with Tom Huber, Wayne
Nystel, Steve Franzen, Leo Dowd, Mike Olson, Dan Brummond, Joe Denner,
Dan Johnson and Steve Wegner serving as casketbearers.  Honorary
bearers will be members of the Chickasaw County Sheriffs Department
and of the New Hampton Police Department.

Visitation will be from 2 to 8 pm Sunday at Conway-Kolbet Funeral Home
in New Hampton where there will be a 4 pm Knights of Columbus Rosary
and a 7 pm scripture service.  Further visitation will be an hour
before services at the church.

Thomas James Hurd was born March 10, 1959 in New Hampton, the son of
James and Alice Marie (Showalter) Hurd.  He was a 1977 graduate of New
Hampton High School.  Tom served as dispatcher for the Sheriffs
Department for 22 years before retiring in January of 2001 for health
reasons.  He loved to hunt, fish, snowmobile and enjoyed cooking and
grilling out.  He was also an avid fan of the Vikings and Chicago Cubs
and enjoyed many sporting activities.  He was a member of St. Joseph
Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Chickasaw Sno-riders.

Tom is survived by his mother and step father Alice Marie and Neil
Jones of New Hampton; 3 sisters Peg (Mark) Mueterthies of Lawler,
Jeanne (Joe) Rieks of Iowa Falls and Debbie (Rod) Gossling of Alta
Vista; his maternal grandmother Bernice Showalter of Elma.

Also surviving are his 8 nieces and nephews: Megan, Michael and
Matthew Mueterthies; David and Katy Rieks and Alyssa, James and Riley
Gossling.

He was preceded in death by his father James Hurd; maternal
grandfather Harold Showalter and paternal grandparents Thomas and
Lillian Hurd.

From Conway Kolbet Funeral Home web site at:
http://www.conway-kolbetfuneralhome.com/thomas_hurd.htm