Lulu Mae (Evans) SELBY

SELBY, EVANS, SAVOY, BERNDT, TURNER, TEIGEN, GOODWIN, HIGGINS, CANNON, WITHROW

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/5/2011 at 12:10:48

April 29, 2010
Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa

November 20, 1922 -- April 26, 2010

BELMOND, IA — Lulu Mae “Lu” Selby, 87, most recently of Belmond and formerly of St. Paul, Grand Rapids and the Villa Apts in Apple Valley, Minn., died Monday (April 26, 2010) at the Belmond Medical Center. Public funeral services will be held at 5 p.m. today, Thursday, at the Andrews Funeral Home in Belmond. A visitation will follow the service from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home in Belmond. A funeral service will also be held on Friday at Central Presbyterian Church, 500 Cedar St., St. Paul, and the family will greet people at the church there from 10 to 11 a.m. Burial and committal services will be 2 p.m. Friday at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. The funeral procession for Lu will be gathering at Gate 2 Assembly area 1 upon arrival at Fort Snelling. The family suggests those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial in Lu’s name consider a charity of their own choice, the family or the Belmond Historical Museum.

Lu Evans, the daughter of Albert E. Evans and Irma (Savoy) Berndt Evans, was born Nov. 20, 1922, in Kansas City, Mo. Lu attended and graduated from Wilson High School and continued her education in the administrative/ secretarial program at Cables Secretarial College, St. Paul. Lu then worked for six years at Brown & Bigelow in St. Paul.

Lu was united in marriage Harold Selby and the couple’s union was blessed with three children, including Harold “Budd” Selby Jr., Donald Selby and Nancy (Selby) Turner, plus a “chosen” daughter, Rishelle Teigen.

Following their marriage, Lu worked outside the home and was being a full-time homemaker, wife and mother. For seven years she was employed at Robert Paul TV, Roseville, Minn. Lu’s energies, love and focus throughout her life was to provide for the needs of her family. Her wonderful, nurturing and motherly ways were perfect for the role in life that she truly relished. Lu always seemed to put the needs of others before those of her own and she received great personal satisfaction in caring for and serving others. She was very hospitable and was a hard worker. In earlier years of her life, Lu had been involved in the community as a Cub Scout den mother and was a Blue Bird leader for a time. She had spent time on one of the St. Paul-area PTAs, in the Order of the Eastern Star and had been a member of the Central Presbyterian Church, where she had been a youth leader over the years. Lu had numerous hobbies and favorite pastimes including sewing, including making Barbie doll clothes, reading, listening to music, working on countless craft projects, involvement in various Bible studies and taking excursions to Como Park and Zoo, where a favorite event including a ride on the carousel, a distinction that she even included on her 75th birthday. Lu and family also enjoyed outings to the family cabin at Coon Lake, East Bethel, Minn., while her first husband was alive. Harold Selby preceded her in death.

In 1996, Lu moved to Belmond, Iowa, where she immensely enjoyed the community and her involvement as a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Later she would return to Minnesota for a while before she would eventually return to Belmond as she had chosen to do in the later years of her life. Lu wanted to live in and was very comfortable in the surroundings of the Belmond senior community and very much enjoyed her time living at the Belle Haven Assisted Living Complex. Her family and all who knew her will remember Lu as a determined, efficiency-minded lady who loved others and was a caring wife, mother and adoring grandma.

Lulu’s memory will continue on in the lives of her surviving family, including her sons, Harold E. “Budd” Selby Jr. and wife Shawn Goodwin, Silver Spring, Md., Donald Selby and wife Daree, Wyoming, Minn., daughter Nancy Turner and husband Larry, Belmond, Iowa, and “chosen” daughter Rishelle Teigen and husband Greg, Andover, Minn.; her grandchildren, Chris (Dean) Higgins, Belmond, and their family, Jayden, Katelyn, Tony, Zach and Keaton; Robyn and Logan Selby, Wyoming, Minn.; and Rishelle’s children, Callie, Tommy and Esteban, Andover, Minn. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, Harold E. Selby Sr., and her grandmother, Lulu M. Cannon Withrow Savoy. Andrews Funeral Home, Belmond, is handling funeral arrangements in Belmond and in St. Paul.