Worth County IA Archives Obituaries.....Myli, Alva June 24, 1994
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Mason City Globe Gazette, June, 1994
Alva Minerva Myli, 94, of Northwood, died June 24, 1994 at the Lutheran 
Retirement Home in Northwood.

Funeral services were held at the First Lutheran Church Chapel, with the Rev. 
Mark Bents officiating.  Burial was in Sunset Rest Cemetery.

Alva Minerva Myli was born on April 6, 1900, on a farm near Hanlontown, the 
fourth daughter of Erick H. and Clara (Knudtson) Myli.  She was baptized and 
confirmed at Concordia Lutheran Church in rural Joice.  She received her grade 
school education at a rural school in Worth County.  She attended and 
graduated from the Lutheran Ladies' Seminary in Red Wing, Minn.  In 1927 she 
graduated from the Lutheran Bible Institute at Minneapolis, and for while she 
taught school at Danville Center, a rural school in Worth County.

For 30 years she was employed at the Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home in 
Chicago, Ill., as matron supervising children.  She lived with a sister in 
Elmhurst, Ill., for a few years, where she was employed at a Ben Franklin 
store,  In 1959, she moved to her parents' home in Northwood to assist in the 
care of her bedridden mother for seven years.  She was also employed at the 
Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood as nurse's aide and had been a resident 
of the Lutheran Retirement Home since June 15, 1982

She was a member of First Lutheran Church of Northwood.  She was a good 
seamstress, and in her younger days sewed many of the clothes for her family.

She is survived by two sisters, Ethel Bergdale and her husband, Alfred, of 
Hanlontown, and Gail Nelson of Mason City; as well as sixteen nephews and 
nieces and other relative and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; eight sisters, Ruth Myli, Blanch 
Jensen,  Ida Myli, Ida T. Stewart, Thelma Myli, Edna Bergdale, Hilma Myli and 
Nina Felland.


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