Wilma Wilg Ehm

EHM, WILG

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 6/8/2006 at 15:13:42

Winterset Madisonian
March 18, 1998

Wilma V. Ehm, Winterset

Wilma Victoria Ehm, 80, of Winterset died of a heart ailment Tuesday, March 10, 1998 at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

Funeral services were held Saturday, March 14, at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Winterset with Pastor Steve Koch officiating. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery.

Wilma Ehm was born March 5, 1918, in Omaha, Neb., to Louis G. and Elva C. Vredberg Wilg. She married Herbert J. Ehm June 6, 1937, at Greenfield. She was manager of the Winterset Ben Franklin Store for 39 years and was a self-taught artist. She was a charter member of St. Paul Lutheran Church and a member of the church's "comforters" sewing group.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her husband; one daughter, Maribelle Ehm of La Junta, Colo.; and two brothers, LaVern Wilg of Bella Vista, Ark., and Robert Wilg of Chariton.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Collins Funeral Home in Winterset. Memorials may be made to St. Paul Lutheran Church in Winterset.