SONBERG, Donald "Jack" 1930-2004

SONBERG, EVEREST, WIELAND

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/16/2009 at 09:32:22

DONALD ‘JACK’ SONBERG

CHARLES CITY, IOWA — Donald “Jack” Sonberg, 73, a resident of 608 Pfeiffer Ave., Charles City, died Saturday, (Feb. 7, 2004) at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. Dennis Niezwaag will officiate. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. in the Osage Cemetery, Osage.

Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and one hour prior to the service on Tuesday.

Donald Lavern Sonberg was born Feb. 24, 1930, at St. Ansgar, the son of Henry and Louise (Everest) Sonberg. He received his education at Osage High School.

On July 14, 1949, he was united in marriage to Doris Wieland at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They farm-ed near Osage until moving to the Colwell area in 1956. Jack was a farmer at heart and ran a large dairy operation as well as raised hogs.

His favorite pastimes in-cluded craft woodworking and attending the chuckwagon races, in which many of his children were participants.

Jack loved his family and he looked forward to spend-ing time with all of them, but especially the grandchildren.

Living family members in-clude his wife, Doris, of Charles City; six children, Delores “Dee” (Bob) Onken of Osage, Darwin (Norma) Sonberg of Orchard, Denise (Dan) Riden of Nashua, Dawn (Courtney) Thomas of Ionia, Dale Sonberg and special friend Shawna of Charles City, and Dennis (Lisa) Sonberg of Charles City; 12 grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; and two sisters, Betty (Gene) Clark of Orchard, and Sheryl (Bob) Nassif of Rochester, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Daron Sonberg, and an infant brother.

Hauser Funeral Home, Charles City, (641) 228-2323.

[Mason City Globe Gazette]