Wilma F. (Swalve) ODEGAARD CLINE

SWALVE, CLINE, SANDERSFELD, ODEGAARD, RAWDING, SCOFIELD, SANKEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/10/2010 at 15:58:49

December 12, 2001
Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa

MASON CITY - Wilma F. Cline, 82, of Lake Geneva, Wis., formerly of Mason City, died Tuesday (Dec. 11, 2001) at Sienna Meadows Care Center, Lake Geneva, Wis. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. on Friday (Dec. 14, 2001) at Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E. Mason City, with the Rev. Douglas Anderson, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery on Mason City. Visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral chapel.

Wilma was born June 11, 1919, on a farm in Twin Lake Township near Goodell, a daughter of John and Wilhelmina (Sandersfeld) Swalve. She attended the rural school near her parents home and continued her studies at Klemme High School, graduating in May of 1937. After graduation she worked at Larsen's Meat Market in Klemme. From there she went to Omaha to work, and returned to Clear Lake in 1950 and worked at Damon's Department Store, in Mason City until 1957. She worked at Montgomery Ward for two years. In 1959 she married Harry L. Cline at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They lived in Mason City and she worked at Raizes' Department Store, until they closed. She then worked with her husband's business, Cline's Floor Covering, until his death in 1992. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. She loved crafts, making quilts, crocheting, and baking and cooking. She was very interested in her family. She especially enjoyed traveling and spent winters in Weslaco, Texas until Mr. Cline's health kept them at home.

Survivors include two sons, Randall Odegaard and his wife, Carol, of Lake Geneva, Wis., and Ronald Cline and his wife, Betsy, of Mason, Mich.; one daughter, Bonnie Rawding, of Mason City; five grandchildren, Christopher and Jennifer Odegaard, both of Lake Geneva, Wis.; Jason Cline, of Ypsilanti, Mich.; Alysia Scofield, of Durham, N.C.; Alana Sankey, of Cedar Falls; four great-grandchildren, Brynna Sankey, Ethan Sankey, Nancy Scofield, and Abraham Scofield; one brother, Raymond Swalve, in California. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, Harold; and her husband, Harry, in 1992. Hogan Bremer Colonial Chapel.