CARSTENS, Wilma P.

CARSTENS, WORKMAN, COON, MENTZER, CAVES, SCOTT, DROEGMILLER, GARLOCK, BRINK, SMITH

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/12/2006 at 15:31:49

Wilma P. Carstens

CHEROKEE, Iowa -- Wilma P. Carstens, 91, of Cherokee passed away Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005, at Cherokee Villa Nursing & Rehab Center following a short illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with the Rev. Larry Nilson officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cherokee. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Wilma was born Oct. 26, 1913, at Correctionville, Iowa, to Elmer and Edith (Workman) Coon. She graduated from Correctionville High School in 1930 and received her teaching certificate from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught country school for a short time prior to her marriage.

She married Albert H. Carstens on May 31, 1936, in Sioux City. She had made her home in Cherokee the past 21 years. Prior to this, she lived in California and Washington. She had been a volunteer at Cherokee Villa Nursing & Rehab Center and was one of the founders of the auxiliary. She and her husband had been active volunteers at Countryside Estates, Careage Hills and the Senior Citizens Happy Hour Club in Cherokee.

While living in Yountville, Calif., she was president of the American Legion Auxiliary and did volunteer work at the Veterans Home and Hospital. She and her husband enjoyed traveling the country in their R.V.

Survivors include two nieces, Sharon Mentzer and her husband, Dave of Folsom, Calif. and Sandra Caves and her husband, Lane of Richland, Miss.; special friends, Mary and Gayle Scott and family of Cherokee; and two sisters-in-law, Hilda Carstens of Quimby, Iowa and Ella Droegmiller of Cushing, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, on Nov. 15, 2004; a brother, Robert Coon; and two sisters, Maxine Garlock and Phyllis (Brink) Smith