Selma Lucille (Wogen) SIME

WOGEN, SIME, WIIG, HARANG, HERSH, FLO

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/21/2010 at 19:40:07

LAKE MILLS, IA - Selma Sime, 92, of Lake Mills, died Monday (Feb. 25, 2008) at the Lake Mills Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 29, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Kiester, Minn., with the Rev. Richard Steffen officiating. Burial will be in Our Savior's Lutheran Cemetery, Kiester. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Mittelstadt Funeral Home, 902 East Main St. in Lake Mills, and will continue one hour prior to services at the church.

Selma Lucille (Wogen) Sime was born to Severin "Sam" and Berta Elisabet "Lizzie" (Wiig) Wogen on July 14, 1915, in Humboldt County. She was baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church near Thor on Aug. 29, 1915. Selma attended rural school in Humboldt, and in the sixth grade moved with her parents to the Lake Mills area. She was confirmed at Salem Lutheran Church in Lake Mills by the Rev. O.R. Sletten. She received her education in the Scarville and Lake Mills schools and graduated from Lake Mills High School in 1933. Selma taught in rural schools in Winnebago County for six years. On March 26, 1939, she was united in marriage to Milton "Jim" Sime at Bethel Lutheran Church in Vinje, by the Rev. S.J. Fretheim. They farmed in the Scarville-Vinje area for many years until retirement, when they moved to Lake Mills. She and Milton worked hard on the farm inside and outside. Together they earned statewide recognition and awards for their champion dairy herds. Selma and Milton were avid square dancers in the area and also in Pharr, Texas, where they spent 17 winters. Selma sewed many of their elaborate square dance dresses and shirts to match. Selma enjoyed working with young people and served as teacher in Sunday school and Bible school and was a 4-H leader for a number of years. She also served in the Farm Bureau Women's Group, Extension Council, and women's groups in her church.

She was a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She was well known for her good nature and for her delicious cooking and baking. In 2000 she moved to Mills Harbour. She enjoyed living there and made many friends. For the past year Selma had been a resident of the Lake Mills Care Center where she also enjoyed many friends. In July 2007 she was named Lake Mills Care Center Queen for the July Jubilee Parade.

Selma is survived by children, Beverly and husband, Arlyn Harang, of Camano Island, Wash., Larry Sime and wife, Sandy Hersh, of Littleton, Ma., Linda "Lin" Sime and husband, Steve Hering, of Eugene, Ore., Arlo Sime and wife, Susan, of Lakota, and Mark Sime and wife, Kimberly, of Mason City; 11 grandchildren; three step-grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Milton; brothers, Milford Wogen, Elvin Wogen, Stanley Wogen; and sister, Luella Flo. Mittelstadt Funeral Home & Cremation, Lake Mills.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
February 28, 2008