Viola Mae (Dannen) JASPERSEN

JASPERSEN, ABBAS, DANNEN, WEINGARTEN, CHRISTIANSON, SMEBY, GILBERTSON, HUNTBATCH, PROCTOR

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/7/2017 at 15:47:22

April 24, 1925 ---- June 23, 2017

Viola Mae Jaspersen, age 92, of Thornton, Iowa, was called to heaven Friday, June 23, 2017 at the Sheffield Care Center, Sheffield, Iowa where she had been a resident. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM, Thursday, June 29, 2017, at St. Pauls' Lutheran Church, Thornton, IA. Pastor Rhea Evanson will be officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery, Thornton, IA. Visitation will be on Wednesday at the church from 4 to 7 PM and will continue one hour prior to the services at church Thursday. Funeral arrangements are through the Andrews Funeral Home in Belmond.

Viola was born April 24, 1925 at a farm in Franklin County, fairly near where her future husband had been born in 1924. Viola was the fifth child born to Otto and Mattie (Abbas) Dannen. Viola was baptized at the Zion Reformed Church near Chapin, Iowa. Viola attended Swaledale School where she was involved in basketball and choir. On April 27, 1942, she was united in marriage to Harold Jaspersen at Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake, Iowa and they were able to spend 74 beautiful years together.

Viola and Harold were the parents of two daughters, Darlene (husband Dr. Franklin Weingarten) of Portland, Oregon, and Jane (husband Eugene Christianson) of Thornton.

Viola and Harold worked hard side by side and were eventually able to buy their farm near Thornton. For several years Viola was the school secretary at Thornton and then helped Harold start Jaspersen Insurance and Real Estate in 1959. Viola was an excellent seamstress and cook. Viola and Harold loved to fish with family and friends and spent many summers at their cabin in Northern Minnesota and winters in Escondido, California. Viola was devoted to her family and her church. She was presently a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Thornton.

She always seemed to take time to write just one more letter to family and friends and encourage them to celebrate their lives. She was truly a beautiful lady inside and out with a wonderfully loving soul and heart warming personality. Her love for life, caring for others and her gentle demeanor will also be etched in the hearts and minds of all who had the opportunity to be a part of her life journey.

Viola's memory will live on in her surviving family: her daughter Darlene (husband Dr. Franklin) Weingarten of Oregon, and their children David of Guam, Ariel of Oregon and Aaron of Oregon; her daughter Jane (husband Gene) Christianson, (Thornton) and their son Tom Christianson and (wife Kristen) of Belmond and precious great-grandsons Court, Drew, and Jonah Christianson and their son Tim Christianson (wife Brigid) of Sheffield and precious great-granddaughters Delaney and Brynn Christianson. Viola is also survived by brothers-in-law Arlo (wife June) Jaspersen of Albert Lea, MN and Herluf Jaspersen, Peculiar, MO; sisters-in-law Marlys Jaspersen of Cedar Rapids, IA, Verna Smeby of Northwood, IA; brother-in-law Earl (wife Sharlene) of Clear Lake, IA, and sister-in-law Esther Gilbertson of Billings, MT; as well as many nieces and nephews. Viola was preceded in death by her parents; husband Harold W. Jaspersen on July 31, 2016; two brothers Else (Wife Irene) and Engle (wife Gladys); two sisters Marie (husband George) [Proctor] and Florence Huntbatch (husband Gibson). Andrews Funeral Home, Belmond, IA.

Mason City Globe Gazette -- Mason City, IA
June 28, 2017