SEARS, Lucille Esther 1926 - 2016

SEARS, RASMUNSEN, THOMSEN, CURRIER, SCHONEMAN, BACHMAN, KRUGER, MOLINSKY, LEACH

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 10/16/2017 at 22:37:42

Lucille Esther Sears

CLEAR LAKE — Lucille Esther Sears, 90, of Clear Lake, died Thursday, June 23, 2016, at Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

A funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 27, 2016, at Zion Lutheran Church, 112 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dr. Pat Hall officiating. Burial will be in Clear Lake Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, June 26, 2016, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel in Clear Lake. There will also be visitation one hour prior to the funeral at the church on Monday.

Family suggests memorial contributions to the Lucille Sears Memorial Fund.

Lucille was born March 26, 1926, the daughter of Axel and Christine (Rasmunsen) Thomsen in Titonka. At a young age the family moved to a farm south of Clear Lake where she attended Bakers Country School. She graduated from Clear Lake High School with the class of 1944.

Lucille worked at the Bailey Dime Store and for Dr. Peterson as a receptionist in the 1940s. Coming from a musical family, Lucille loved music, and someone in the family was always playing the guitar, singing or playing the piano. Lucille played the piano by ear well into her 80s. Anyone could mention a song and without sheet music, she could play it.

Lucille met Tilman Sears at the Surf Ballroom early in 1946. They were united in marriage on Sept. 8, 1946, at Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake. He preceded her in death on Jan. 15, 2005. They loved to dance and never missed a Friday night dance for many years.

In 1960, Lucille began working for Clear Lake Schools in the hot lunch program; first as a lunch lady at the Clear Lake Junior High until the school burned and she started at the Clear Lake Middle School, until retiring in July 1996 at the age of 70.

Lucille loved to dance, read, garden, play the piano, listen to music, and bake. She’d often call and say she had baked chocolate chip cookies, a banana cream pie, coconut cream pie, and to please come and get it!

Lucille lived in the family home that they built in June 1949 until May 2016.

Lucille is survived by two daughters, Beverly Ann (Denny) Currier of Clear Lake and Marilyn Rose (Paul) Schoneman of Garner; five grandchildren, Jennifer Currier, Jason (Jenny) Currier, Yvette (Marty) Bachman, Raquel Schoneman and Theodore Schoneman; four great- grandchildren, Nick Currier, Max Currier, Maddox Kruger and Rylynn Kruger; and a brother, Ken (Ann) Thomsen; a sister-in-law, Millie Thomsen; a special niece, Jan (Dean) Molinsky; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Lucille was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Tilman; a sister, Gladys Leach; and two brothers, Frank Thomsen and Richard Thomsen.

Keep dancing mom and dad!

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake. 641-357-2193. ColonialChapels.com.