SPONHEIM, Margaret A. (Field) 1921-1998

SPONHEIM, BYSTOL, FIELD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/26/2010 at 19:35:43

Margaret A. Sponheim

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Margaret A. Sponheim, 76, formerly of Osage, died Sunday, Feb. 22, 1998, at Covington Heights Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Rock Creek Lutheran Church, rural Osage, with the Rev. Thomas Hughes officiating. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with the family receiving friends from 7 to 8 p.m.

Margaret A. Sponheim was born March 9, 1921, on the family farm in West Cedar Township in Mitchell County, the daughter of Martin and Emily (Bystol) Field. Margaret was baptized and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Clear Lake, and was the church organist. She was educated in rural schools and graduated from Plymouth High School in 1938, Waldorf College, Forest City, in 1940, and St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., in 1942. She was employed by the Mason City Globe-Gazette and Standard Oil Company. She taught school in Floyd, Tama and Forest City. Margaret married Harold Sponheim on Dec. 14, 1957, at Rock Creek Lutheran Church. They farmed in the Osage area. Harold died Jan. 1, 1985. Margaret moved to Sioux Falls in October of 1995, to live with her daughter, Ingrid. She was an active member of Rock Creek Lutheran Church, Ladies Aide, Circle and Lydia Circle, and a member of the Shakespearean Club and Quilters Club.

Survivors include two daughters, Ingrid Dravland and her husband, Steven, and their son, Dustin, of Sioux Falls, and Elizabeth Sponheim and her husband, Leonard Hummel, of Boston, Mass.; one son, Harold A. Sponheim and his wife, Jean, of Loveland, Colo.; and one brother, Irving Field of rural Nora Springs.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband, Harold, in 1985.

[Globe Gazette - Feb. 23, 1998]