OBITUARY: Mildred Willand Sorbo (1910-2001), Worth County, Iowa 


[Mitchell County Press online - www.mcpress.com - May 15, 2001 ]


                    Mildred Willand Sorbo (1910-2001)

Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 19, 2001 at 10 am at Silver Lake
Lutheran Church, rural Northwood, for Mrs. Gilman (Mildred) Sorbo. Pastors
Steve Smith and Al Stoa will officiate and burial will be in the Silver Lake
Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 pm on Friday, May 18 at Schroeder
and Sites Funeral Home, Northwood. She died Sunday, May 13, 2001 at the
Stacyville Nursing Home.

Mrs. Sorbo, the former Mildred Willand, was born July 12, 1910 in Worth
County the daughter of Wilhelm and Clara (Calgaard) Willand. On June 30,
1934 she married Gilman Sorbo at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They
spent their early married years near Manly and rural Northwood. They then
made their permanent home in the rural Silver Lake area, Northwood. Finally,
they moved to the Maple Court Apartments in Northwood where Mildred enjoyed
her last seven years.

Mildred was an active member of the Silver Lake Parish until the time of
her death. She was an avid gardener, seamstress, and enjoyed cooking,
baking, crossword puzzles and playing cards.

For many years, she was employed by the St. Johns Lutheran Retirement Home
in Albert Lea, MN.

Preceding her in death were her husband; an infant son; three brothers,
Walter Willand, Orin and Stanley Willand; four brothers-in-law and one
sister-in-law.

Those that survive her include her daughter, Marcia Klapperich and her
husband Norman of Stacyville; three grandchildren, Nicole Klapperich of
Kansas City, MO, Ryan Klapperich and his wife Bridget of Wichita, KS and
Michael Klapperich, a student at Iowa State University, Ames; and one
great-grandson, Colin Klapperich of Wichita, KS; three sisters, Opal
Solomonson and husband, John, of Lake Mills, Esther Bodde of Hampton and
Myrtle Tapps of Mason City; one brother, Clarence Willand and wife, Fern,
of Joice; four sisters-in-law, Ellnora Willand of Northwood, Carol Willand
of Joice, Dorothy Towne and her husband, Earl of Emmons, MN and Nina Sorbo
of Estherville.




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