Blomberg, Sister Ingeborg (1915-2014)

BLOMBERG, WILBUR, PORATH, ARONSON, STOLA, CANNON

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 10/7/2014 at 10:44:28

Sister Ingeborg Blomberg
January 13, 1915 - August 23, 2014

Following a brief illness, Sister Ingeborg Blomberg, age 99, of Albert City, Iowa, passed away quietly on Saturday, August 23, 2014, at the Pleasant View Home in Albert City.

Sister Ingeborg Blomberg was born on January 13, 1915, to Carl W. and Olga Blomberg on a farm near Albert City, Iowa. She was baptized on February 3, 1915, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. In 1919, the family moved to a farm near Pine City, Minnesota, where she, along with her siblings, received her schooling in a small country school. In 1929, the family returned to Albert City, Iowa.

At the age of twelve, Ingeborg expressed her desire and hope to become a nurse and a deaconess someday. In 1930, she was confirmed at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. After graduating from the Albert City High School in 1934, she worked for several years as the Albert City telephone operator. In 1945, she completed her nursing degree at Iowa Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Des Moines, Iowa. Two years later, she entered the Immanuel School for deaconess training. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Omaha in 1950, she was consecrated as a Lutheran Deaconess in June of that same year to serve the Lutheran Church in Word and Service. As a symbol of her calling, she received the Deaconess Cross along with the title of Sister.

In 1951, Ingeborg entered the University of Minnesota master’s degree program. Graduating with a degree in Hospital Administration in June 1953, she returned to Omaha as the Assistant Hospital Administrator for Immanuel Hospital. In the ensuing years, she fulfilled her duties and responsibilities as an administrator of the Immanuel Medical Center. Those responsibilities included organizing and moving the patients to the new facility when the hospital relocated five miles away, opening the Child Care center for children of Immanuel employees, and filling in, on occasion, for the chaplain by giving the morning devotions over the speaker system for the patients. Her service within the diaconate included serving on the Board of Directors of the ELCA Deaconess Community as well as on several committees. As an administrator, she was active in the American Hospital Association, the Nebraska Hospital Administrators Association, and the Omaha Hospital Association. In 1982, she received an Honorary Doctorate degree from Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska. In 1987, she retired from her position as a vice-president of Immanuel Medical Center.

Ingeborg always treasured her family. Indeed, her extended family always participated in many special occasions throughout her years in Omaha. She also enjoyed traveling with friends, visiting the Holy Land, Jordan, Germany, the Caribbean, where she took part in a seminar on the sea, Sweden, Norway, Hawaii, and Alaska. In October 2004, she moved back to Albert City and resided at Countryside Living.

Ingeborg will be lovingly remembered by her sister, Vivian Wilbur, of Albert City, Iowa; her many nieces and nephews; her cousins, Florence Porath and Melvin Aronson; as well as by her extended family members and her special friends.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Olga; her brothers: Art, Emil, Calvin, Kenneth, George, Andrew, Herbert, and Richard; her sister, Evangeline; her nieces, Josephine and Caroline Cannon; and her nephews, Gregg and Gary Blomberg.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 30, 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Albert City. Burial will follow in the Fairfield Township Cemetery in Albert City. Visitation will take place Friday, August 29, 2014, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Sliefert Funeral Home in Albert City. The Sliefert Funeral Home in Albert City is in charge of the arrangements.

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