Attended Mont Amoena 1924-1927
M.P.C.I. Class of 1929

Birth: 24 Aug 1910, Big Lick, Stanly County, North Carolina
Death: 14 Jun 2003, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina

Parents:
Atlas Eugene Hahn (1879 – 1948)
Elizabeth Tabitha Hartsell Hahn (1888 – 1951)

Sibling:
George Franklin Hahn (1916 – 1999)

Spouses:
Dr. Hugh William Sigmon (1906-1996); m. 20 Jun 1942, Mt. Pleasant, NC
John William Link, Jr. (1914-1986); m. 15 Jun 1952, Mt. Pleasant, NC; div. 3 Sep 1959.

Children:
Verna Hahn Sigmon Lomax (1943-)
John William Link, III

Burial:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.come, #13023555.

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Link:
Mont Amoena transcript and 1929 M.P.C.I. Thesis: “The Power of the Public Press”

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From the Verna Mae Hahn Memory Book, ECHS.
Unidentified newspaper clippings. Click to enlarge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, NC), 19 May 1927,

MONT AMOENA SEMINARY TO HAVE RECITAL
The Twelfth Musical Recital Will Be Given Tonight – Miss Verna Mae Hahn to Render Program

Miss Verna Mae Hahn, of Mont Amonea Seminary, assisted by the string quartet of the Winston-Salem High School, will give a musical program this evening a the Seminary at Mt. Pleasant at 8 o’clock.

The following program will be rendered:

Sonata Pathetique Op. 13 (Beethoven) – Verna Mae Hahn

Andante (Dittersdorf) – String Quartette

Whim: Warum: Aven (Schumann); Minnef de Mozart (Schulhoff) – Verna Mae Hahn

Adoration (Felixv (Baroski) – Joseph Schatman.

Sarabande (MacDowell); To The Moon (MacDowell): Sea Gardens (Cooke) – Verna Mae Hahn.

Dance of the Happy Spirit (Gluck) – String Quartette

Duo Brilliant (Czerny) – Verna Mae Hahn. Helen Misenheimer.

The members of the string quartet are: First violin, Joseph Schatman, second violin, Miss Jean Misenheimer, Viola, Miss Alice Barton and cello, Carl Plaster.

The following students of the Seminary will act as ushers: Misses Jane Dry, Alice James, Dorothy Sullivan and Mary Ella Barrier.

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The Salisbury Post (Salisbury, NC), 5 Jul 1942.

Sigmon-Hahn Wedding Held

Mt. Pleasant, July 4 – In a private ceremony here in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 8 o’clock on Saturday evening, June 20. Miss Verna Mae Hahn and Dr. Hugh William Sigmon were united in marriage.

Rev. John W. Link, pastor of the Hahn family, officiated, using the ring ceremony of the Lutheran church.

Only members of the immediate families and several friends were present.

Miss Hahn, at the time of her marriage, was a member of the library staff of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va. She holds degrees from Duke University and the University of North Carolina, and is an accomplished musician, especially in the field of liturgical music in which she has served for a number of years. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Atlas Eugene Hahn of Mt. Pleasant.

Dr. Sigmon is, at present, chief chemist of Ecusta Paper Corporation of Pisgah Forest. He received his Ph.D. degree from Duke University.

Dr. and Mrs. Sigmon will make their home in Brevard.

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Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC), 24 Jun 1952, p. 7-B.

Mrs. Verna Hahn Sigmon Weds John W. Link, Jr.

Mrs. Verna Mae Hahn Sigmon, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Atlas E. Hahn, of Mt. Pleasant, and John W. Link, Jr., son of the Rev. and Mrs. John W. Link, of Shepherdstown, W. Va., were united in marriage in a simple ceremony in the home of the bride, Sunday evening, June 15, at 6:30 o’clock, in Mt. Pleasant. The double-ring ceremony of the Lutheran church was used, with the rev. E. Ray Trexler officiating.

The vows were spoken before an improvised white altar flanked with appropriate evergreens, white flowers, and double seven-branched candelabras holding white cathedral tapers.

The bride wore a full ballerina length dress of navy nylon marquisette over taffeta. She used white embroidered elbow-length gloves and other accessories in navy. An orchid shoulder corsage completed her ensemble.

George F. Hahn Jr., lighted the candles, and little Miss Verna Hahn Sigmon, only daughter of the bride, carried the rings on a white satin pillow.

Wedding Supper
Following the ceremony, a wedding supper was served to members of the wedding party, relatives and close friends of the bridal couple.

Present to share this hospitality were: the bride and bride-groom; Mr. and Mrs. George F. Hahn, George F. Hahn, Jr., Elizabeth Hahn, Atlas B. Hahn, Verna Hahn Sigmon, Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Barrier, Howard Barrier, the Rev. and Mrs. E. Ray Trexler, Edgar Trexler, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lester Johnson, all of Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Elizabeth Link Russell of Lyons, Mich.; Mrs. Daniel E. Efird, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swaringgen of Albemarle.

Later in the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Link left for a wedding trip to the coast. They will be at home in Mt. Pleasant.

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Stanly News and Press (Albemarle, NC), 17 Jun 2003, P. 2.

Verna Link

Verna Mae Hahn Sigmon Link, 92, formerly of 8603 Lee St., Mt. Pleasant, died Saturday, June 14, 2003, at Carebridge Assisted Living.

Her funeral was at 11 a.m. today at Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. Interment was in the church cemetery. The Rev. Glynn Bell officiated.

Born Aug. 24, 1910, in Stanly County, she was a daughter of the late Atlas Eugene and Elizabeth Tabitha Hartsell Hahn.

She was educated in Mt. Pleasant Grade School and lived in Mt. Pleasant most of her life. After grade school, she attended Mont Amoena Seminary and Mt. Pleasant Collegiate Institute, then Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory. Link graduated from Duke University in 1932 with majors in chemistry and general sciences and minors in math and music. In 1938, she earned a degree in library science at UNC Chapel Hill.

In 1942, she married Dr. Hugh William Sigmon. In 1952, she married John William Link, Jr.

She taught in the public schools in Mt. Pleasant, Ridgecrest and Faith. In 1963, Link joined the faculty of Cabarrus Memorial Hospital School of Nursing as an instructor of psychology, human development and social problems and served as librarian until her retirement in 1975.

She was a life member of the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum.

Survivors include two children, Verna Hahn Sigmon Lomax of Alexandria, Va., and John William Link, III, of Gulfport, Fla.; a stepson, Harvey William Sigmon of Nicholasville, Ky.; four grandchildren, Verna Leigh Lomax Lange, Franklin Delano Lomax, Jr., Cynthia Diane Link Morales and John William Link, IV.; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Music Fund, P.O. Box 595, Mt. Pleasant, NC 28124-0595.

Gordon Funeral Home of Mt. Pleasant was in charge.

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Independent Tribune (Concord, NC), 16 Jun 2003, p. 7.

Mrs. Verna Mae Link

MOUNT PLEASANT — Verna Mae Hahn Sigmon Link, 92, died Saturday, June 14, 2003, at Carebridge Assisted Living Center. She was formerly of 8603 Lee St., Mount Pleasant.

Services will be at Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity at 11 a.m. Tuesday, conducted by the Rev. Glynn Bell, burial will be at the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8 tonight at Gordon Funeral Home.

She was born on Aug. 24, 1910, in Big Lick, Stanly County, to Elizabeth Tabitha Hartsell Hahn and Atlas Eugene Hahn. The family moved to Mount Pleasant when she was very young, where she was educated in Mount Pleasant Grade School and lived most of her life.

She was an educator, librarian, musician and historian.

After grade school she was a day student at Mont Amoena Seminary and at Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute. She attended Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory and graduated from Duke University with majors in chemistry and general sciences, and minors in math and music in 1932. From 1932 to 1937, she taught math and science in public schools in Landis, Peachland, Coats and Scotland Neck.

She earned a degree in library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1938 and was assistant librarian in the Agriculture Library at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va., until 1942.

She taught in public schools in Mount Pleasant, Ridgecrest and Faith until 1964, when she joined the faculty of Cabarrus Memorial Hospital School of Nursing as an instructor in psychology, human development and social problems, and served as librarian until her retirement in 1975. She reclassified the entire School of Nursing Library collection from the Dewey Decimal System to the National Library of Medicine System before she retired.

She was an early supporter and a life member of the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum. She was on the executive board and public relations committee, and served as chairperson of the membership committee and as librarian at various times. She and her late brother, George F. Hahn, sponsored two rooms on genealogy and local history, and one room on farm and home equipment in the museum.

She was from childhood a member of Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Mount Pleasant, where she sang in the choir and served as a church organist, choir director and pianist for Sunday School openings and vacation Bible School at various times. She was interested in church history and instrumental in preserving it in the historic plaque on the front of the building.

In 1942 she married Dr. Hugh William Sigmon, a research chemist, and lived in Brevard. In 1952 she married John William Link Jr., an educator and musician.

Survivors include two children, Verna Hahn Sigmon Lomax of Alexandria, Va., and John William Link III of Gulfport, Fla.; a stepson, Harvey William Sigmon of Nicholasville, Ky.; four grandchildren, Verna Leigh Lomax, Lange of New York, N.Y., Franklin Delano Lomax Jr. of Arlington, Va., Cynthia Diane Link Morales of Rialto, Calif., and John William Link IV of Odessa, Texas, two great-grandchildren, Giaanna Diane Morales and John William Link V; a niece, Elizabeth Catherine Hahn Barrett of Gastonia; and two nephews, George Franklin Hahn Jr. of Concord, and Atlas Bivens Hahn of Mount Pleasant.

Memorials may be directed to the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Music Fund, PO Box 595, Mount Pleasant, NC, 28214-0595.