Moland, LaVonne Louise Sprague (1927-2000)

MOLAND, SPRAGUE, JOHNSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 1/29/2023 at 13:25:43

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Friday, December 15, 2000

LaVonne Moland, 73, Jewell, died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000 at Hamilton Hospital. Private service will be held at the Evergreen Cemetery in Jewell, with Pastor Ross Prevo officiating. Mrs. Moland was cremated and there will be no visitation. Arrangements were made with the Foster Funeral home.

LaVonne Louise Sprague, daughter of George and Olive Johnson Sprague, was born January 6, 1927 at Topeka, Kan. As a child she moved with her family to California. She graduated from Lincoln Union High School in Lincoln, Calif. in 1943. Following graduation, she was employed as a secretary with Gladdy McBean in California until leaving in 1947 for American Standard in Sacramento in the accounting departments where she worked for six years. She was employed for many years with the West Sacramento Land Company. On Nov. 22, 1953 she married Leslie Moland at Sacramento, Calif. They continued to reside in Sacramento. The family moved to New Egypt, NJ, where she was employed at Fishback and Moore. She worked with the Boeing Co. along with her duties at Fishback and Moore. In 1962, her family moved to Milwaukee, Wis., where they resided until moving in 1972 to Jackson, Minn. In 1974, they moved to Webster City, where she was employed as a bookkeeper with the United Coop until retiring in 1979.

Survivors are her husband, Les of Jewell; sons and daughters-in-law, David and Dee Moland of Webster, Minn., James and Jill Moland of Bondurant; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, George Boughton Sprague Jr.

She was a member of the Ladies of the Moose, past president of the PTA Council, both in Webster City, Junior Bowling assistant secretary, and was a member of the Genealogy Society of Iowa, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society.