Ila M. (LONERGAN) EBBERS

LONEGRAN, EBBERS, DIEDERICH, VANA, FLATNESS, WEILAND

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/11/2011 at 13:43:16

Obituary - Ila M. (Lonergan) Ebbers

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
September 18, 2003

MASON CITY — Ila M. EBBERS, 88, of 321 Fourth St. N.E., died Monday (Sept. 15, 2003) at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa.

Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church, 125 E. State St., with the Rev. Ron STEIN officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and continue at the church one hour prior to the service.

Memorials may be given to the First Baptist Church.

Ila was born July 14, 1915, in Mower County, Minnesota, the daughter of Lloyd and Matilda (DIEDERICH) LONERGAN. As a small child she moved to Osage in Mitchell County where she attended Mitchell County schools. Later, the family moved to Mason City where she was employed as a homemaker helper for several years.

On Dec. 24, 1940, she married Chester EBBERS at the First Baptist Church in Mason City. They made their first home on a farm in the Sheffield area, later moving back to Mason City where they resided most of their lives. In later years, Ila was employed as a cook at Garfield School in the Mason City School System.

Ila was an active member of the First Baptist Church and Gildner Circle for many years.

Ila and Chester enjoyed dancing and playing cards.

She is survived by her daughter, Sharon VANA and husband, Rex, of Cedar Rapids; grandchildren, Marcy of Chicago, Ill., and Justin of Cedar Rapids; sisters, Dora WEILAND and Bertha FLATNESS of Mason City; brothers, Charles LONERGAN of Hayward, Calif., Neil LONERGAN of Amery, Wis., and Mahlon LONERGAN and wife, Viola, of Rose Creek, Minn.; many nieces and nephews.

Ila was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Chester; brother, William; and sister, Maxine.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (641) 423-0924.

SOURCE: http://www.funeralhomemasoncity.com/sitemaker/sites/HoganB1/obit.cgi?user=411661Edgar

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2011