Vick, Mildred Joyce (Johnson) -- 1922 - 2009

VICK, JOHNSON, LEE, MIKKELSON, TVETER, MCCLURG, BOE, JAYNE, WOMELDORF, PECINOVSKY, OSTRANDER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/20/2012 at 11:20:01

Mildred Vick, age 87, of Decorah, Iowa, died on Thursday, October 8, 2009, at the Aase Haugen Nursing Home in Decorah.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., on Monday, October 12, 2009, at the Glenwood Lutheran Church, with Rev. Douglas Mathison presiding. Burial will be in the Glenwood East Cemetery, rural Decorah, Iowa.

Friends may call on Sunday from 3:00-6:00 p.m., at the Schluter – Balik Funeral Home in Decorah and after 10:00 a.m., at the church on Monday morning. There will be a VFW Ladies Auxiliary service at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday

Memorials may be given in memory of Mildred to Winneshiek County Memorial Hospice, 907 Montgomery Street, Decorah, IA, 52101.

Mildred Joyce (Johnson) Vick was born on March 12, 1922, the daughter of Albert and Ida (Lee) Johnson, near Waukon, Iowa. Mildred was baptized on March 26, 1922, in Glenwood Lutheran Church and was confirmed on June 30, 1935, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Waukon. Mildred attended rural country school near Waukon and graduated from Waukon High School in May 29,1939. Mildred married Norman Vick on November 14, 1940, in Glenwood Township. They lived in Glenwood Township and Mildred was the telephone operator at the Nesset switchboard for the Glenwood Telephone Exchange for seven years. Mildred worked for twenty-seven years for DECO Products. In 1960, they moved to Freeport and then into Decorah in 1986. Mildred was a member of the Glenwood Lutheran Church, the Friendship Circle and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. Mildred especially loved to go fishing and to play cards with friends. But her greatest love was for her family, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.

Mildred is survived by her seven children: LeRoy (Bernice) Vick, Marion, IA; Carolyn (Norman) Mikkelson, Decorah, IA; Roger (Randi) Vick, Caledonia, MN; Ronald Vick, Prairie duChein, WI; Darrell Vick, Decorah, IA; Curtis (Jan) Vick, Decorah, IA; and Marcella (David) Tveter, Rosemount, MN. Nineteen grandchildren, thirty-seven great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Two brothers: Gordon Johnson, Marion, IA and Abner (Mary) Johnson, Watertown, SD. One sister: Ruth McClurg, Viroqua, WI and one sister-in-law: Helen Vick, Decorah, IA, along with many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews.

Mildred was preceded in death by her parents: Albert & Ida Johnson. Her husband: Norman on July 1, 1988. Her father & mother-in-law: Herfred & Mary Vick. One grandson: Travis Vick. Three brothers: Kenneth Johnson, Hartley Johnson and Donald (Darlyne) Johnson. Two sisters-in-law: Carolla Johnson and Irene Johnson. Two brothers-in-law: Clinton McClurg and Vernon Vick. Five sisters-in-law: Myrtle (Bennie) Boe, Hilda (Emil) Jevne, Eleanor (Walter) Womeldorf, Gladys (Don) Engen Pecinovsky and Cora (Gordon) Ostrander.

Source: Schluter - Balik Funeral Home database

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