Stangland, Wallace 1923-2011

STANGLAND, LONG, CORELL

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/2/2011 at 17:34:07

Wallace "Wally" Stangland
Born: May 23, 1923
Passed Away: April 14, 2011
Age: 87 Years, 11 months and 22 days
SERVICE: April 18, 2011,
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Sheldon, Iowa
Wallace "Wally" Stangland, age 87, of Sheldon, Iowa, passed away on Thursday, April 14, 2011, at Sanford Sheldon Senior Care in Sheldon.
Funeral Services will be Monday, April 18, 2011, at 2:00 P.M. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sheldon. Rev. Ron Nelson officiating.
Burial in the East Lawn Cemetery in Sheldon.
Wallace Long Stangland, son of Harry A. and Eva Mae (Long) Stangland, was born on May 23, 1923 in Rutland, South Dakota. He later moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he graduated from Washington High School. Wally was a World War II Navy Veteran, having served on the U.S.S. Columbia. Wally had various jobs including selling fire trucks and he served as a fireman in Bismark, North Dakota. Bismark is where Wally met his future wife. Wally and Mildred "Mickey" Corell were married on October 23, 1950 at the First Evangelical Church in Bismark. In 1952, they moved to Sioux Falls, SD, where they lived for 3 years before moving to Brookings, SD, where Wally became involved with radio. He was known as a born salesman and sold advertising for KBRK Radio in Brookings. A cousin was in radio and persuaded him to help scout for a town to start a new radio station. Sheldon was picked and KIWA was born in 1961. Wally was the station manager until retirement in 1985. Wally and his cousin started another radio station in Sioux Falls, SD (KCHF) in 1969, and sold it in 1977. Wally belonged to St. Paul Lutheran Church, various civic and community organizations, and the Sheldon Golf and Country Club, where he had 3 holes-in-one. Wally was a founding member of the Sheltered Workshop, which grew into Village Northwest Unlimited. Wally was very proud and pleased to get the Sheldon Armed Services Memorial accomplished. He enjoyed his golfing buddies and they also hunted and fished together. He was an avid reader and had a wide variety of hobbies and interests during his life including being a numismatist, a collector of historic barbed wire and insulators, silver smithing, rock hounding, (being frequently invited to juried artist shows throughout the Midwest), wood working after retirement, making furniture and later canes and walking sticks.
Those left to cherish his memories are his wife of 60 years: Mildred "Mickey" Stangland; 3 daughters: Karen Mitchell of Latimer, IA, Sonya (Allen) Zenor of Ponsford, MN, and Nancy Stangland of Sheldon, IA; 2 grandsons: James Wallace (Jessica) Justi and Matthew (Sherry) Mitchell; 3 great-granddaughters; Hailey Justi, Lexi Justi, and Kirra Mitchell.
He was preceded in death by his parents and an older brother.
Source: Andringa Funeral Home, Sheldon, IA., obit.