Josephine Wetteland (1921-2009)

WETTELAND, TERHUNE, MORAIN, GUILFORD, HASKELL, SMITH, WEIR

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 5/15/2009 at 12:22:50

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, May 15, 2009.

Josephine Wetteland, 87, of Billings, Mont., and formerly of Boone, died Saturday, May 9, 2009, at Highgate Senior Living Center in Billings. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 19, at Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall streets in Boone, with Pastor David Guilford officiating. Burial will be in Ames Municipal Cemetery.

Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 18, at Schroeder Memorial Chapel, where the family will be present from 6 to 8 p.m. Visitation will continue from 8 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the chapel.

Josephine was born Dec. 2, 1921, in Mound Valley, Kan., the daughter of Hugh and Mary (Morain) Terhune. She graduated from Mound Valley High School and then attended business college. On Nov. 23, 1947, she married Arthur Thomas “Tom” Wetteland in Cedar Rapids.

In earlier years, she worked with her husband, Tom, in a jewelry business in Jewell and then worked as a secretary at Iowa State University. Later, she worked as a medical secretary for more than 20 years at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, retiring in 1986. The couple lived in Cedar Rapids and Jewell before moving to Boone in 1965. After the death of her husband in 2005, she moved to Billings in 2006.

She was a member of Central Christian Church in Boone. She enjoyed baking cookies and kringla, especially during the holidays, sewing and calligraphy. She also enjoyed writing letters and sending cards to family and friends.

She is survived by two daughters, Hollie Wetteland, of Magnolia, Texas, and Sondra Guilford and husband, David, of Billings, Mont.; five grandchildren, Seth Guilford and fiancée, Cecily Haskell, and Shem, Isaac, Israel and Judah Guilford; one great-grandson, Conrad David Guilford; two brothers, Ralph Terhune and wife, Dorothy, of Broken Arrow, Okla., and Richard Terhune and wife, Donna, of Dallas; and two sisters, Zelpha Smith, of Kansas City, Kan., and Delores Weir, of Tempe, Ariz.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Tom; two brothers, Jim and Carl; and four sisters Ruby, Norma, Mary and Dorothy.

Memorials may be given to Hospice of Central Iowa-Boone Office or Rocky Mountain Hospice of Billings, Mont.

Online condolences and a guestbook are available at www.schroedermemorialchapel.com.

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