Sifert, Wilda 1912 - 1995

SIFERT, GRIFFITH

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/23/2013 at 13:55:42

Wilda Sifert, 83, of Clear Lake, died Friday, July 21, 1995, at
the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

A celebration of Wilda's life was held Tuesday, July 25, at the Clear Lake
United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bernard Olson officiating. Fullerton
Patterson James

Funeral Chapel, 123 2nd St. S.E., Mason City, was in charge of arrangements.
Interment was at MemorialPark Cemetery. Those planning an expression of sympathy
may wish to make donations to the Wycliffe Bible Translators (designated for
David and Karen Sifert) at P.O. Box 2727, Huntington Beach, Calif. 92647.
Those funds will be used for their missionary work in Yarinacocha, Peru.

Wilda was born on March 20, 1912, the daughter of Howard and Iona Griffith,
Hampton, Iowa. She attended school in Mason City and graduated from the Mason
City High School in 1929. She was employed as a telephone operator for
Northwestern Bell. On Sept. 29, 1934, she was united in marriage to Kenneth
Roland Sifert and to this union were born four children. Wilda was active in the
4-H, Boy and Girl Scouts, as her children were growing up. She also taught piano
in her home, as well as enjoying sewing, reading, gardening and playing the
piano.

She was a member of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church, the United
Methodist Women, Swaledale Garden Club, the Clear Lake Home Improvement Club,
Central Heights Neighborhood Birthday Club, the Double F Club, and the Wycliffe
Bible Translators Assoc. She worked as a volunteer for many different
organizations, and particularly for Opportunity Village.

She was the mother to David Sifert, Charles Sifert, Susan Sifert and Crystal
Sifert, her four children; and grandmother to 14 children; and great-grandmother
of six. She is also survived by her sisters, Claribel Bingham, and Dorothy
Vesterby; one brother William Leffingwell; and her sister-in-law Doris Warren.