Edmund "Ed" L. VORLAND

VORLAND, MCCLAMROCK, THOMPSON, JENSEN, NORRIS, CASH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/3/2006 at 11:52:50

Edmund "Ed" L. Vorland, 79, 516 S. 12th St. in Clear Lake, died Wednesday (Aug. 9, 2006) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. A funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church, 112 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Jeff Ungs officiating. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, Highway 122 W. in Mason City. Military honors will be presented by the Clear Lake VFW. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. today at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake. Memorials may be given to the Edmund L. Vorland Memorial Fund.

Ed was born June 29, 1927, at Eagle Grove, Iowa, the son of Helge and Louise (Thompson) Vorland. He attended school at Vernon schools near Renwick, Iowa. He farmed with his family and worked at the elevator in Hardy, Iowa. Ed served in the United States Army. He married Alice Mae Jensen on May 29, 1955, at Lake Lutheran Church, rural Goldfield, and they moved to rural Clear Lake where he farmed. He later farmed for Dr. Preston. He worked for Clear Lake Aluminum Co. and the City of Clear Lake until his retirement in 1993. Ed loved camping, fishing, yard work, flowers, watching birds, puttering around the garage and watching sports on TV. Ed enjoyed his Sunday morning coffee and doughnut with the family. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and the Clear Lake VFW.

Ed is survived by his three children, Gene Vorland and his wife, Cathy, of Clear Lake, Louise Norris and her husband, Charlie, of Mason City, and Norman Vorland and his wife, Julie, of Hanlontown; six grandchildren, Jennifer Cash and her husband, Todd, Jason Norris and his wife, Julie, Eric Vorland, Sara Vorland, Jacob Vorland and Alyson Vorland; two great-grandchildren, Katie and Madalynn Cash; four brothers, Glen Vorland and his wife, Mavis, of Chokio, Minn., Herman Vorland and his wife, Marge, of Hardy, Iowa, Richard Vorland and his wife, Virginia, of Clear Lake, and Kenny Vorland and his wife, Marlene, of Hardy, Iowa; two sisters-in-law, Shirley Vorland of Northwood and Florence Vorland of Arizona; and many nieces and nephews. Ed was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Alice (August 16, 1989); one sister, Pearl McClamrock; and three brothers, Nels, Howard and Eugene Vorland. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Mason City Globe Gazette 8/10/2006