Hillyda Everena Worra (1885-1954)

BIRGO, CHRISTENSON, SCATES, WORRA

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:45

The Wright County Monitor
Clarion, Iowa
Thursday, August 19, 1954
Page 3, Column 2

Funeral services for Miss Hillyda Worra were held Friday afternoon at the Holmes Lutheran church, Rev. B. F. Molatre of Eagle Grove and Rev. Roy Quill, pastor of the Clarion First Lutheran church officiating. Burial was in the Lutheran cemetery at Holmes.

Miss Worra died Tuesday night of last week at the home of her sister, Miss Esther Worra where she had lived for more than six years.

Pontiac, Livingston county, Ill., was the birthplace of Hillyda Everena Worra, daughter of Hellick and Serena Worra. At the age of six years, she moved with the family to Holmes where she spent her childhood, attended grade school and two years at the Eagle Grove high school.

In 1903 she moved with the family to Madison, Minn., where she completed her high school training and taught school for one year. Then she went to Minneapolis where she spent several years as a seamstress and artist. She accepted a position as stenographer for the Railroad Express Co. in Chicago, later being transferred by the company to Phoenix, Ariz., to be with the company for several years before going to California to work as cashier for 20 years in “The Little Cake Shop" in San Francisco.

While there she devoted much of her spare time as instructor in a Negro children mission, a work she was deeply interested in, giving it up only to serve five years during World War II at the Iowa ordinance plant at Burlington.

After the war she accepted a position as matron at the I.O.O.F. Old Folks home at Mason City, a position which she held until her health began to fail when she went to North Dakota to spend two years with her sister at Belfield before coming to Clarion where she spent the remaining days at the Ramsay apartment.

She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith, and was a member of the First Lutheran faith, and was a member of the First Lutheran church of Clarion.

Mrs. Theo. Koltvet with Olga Ulstad as accompanist, sang “Day by Day” and “I Won’t Have to Cross the Jordan Alone.” Pallbearers were N. B. Anderson, Theo. Koltvet, Lauritz Stavnheim, Raymond Thompson, Pete Enge and Sonny Pate. There were many flowers and memorials.

Relatives from a distance attending the funeral included Mrs. Henry Christenson, Clarice Christenson and Mrs. E. Christenson of Sibley, Ill., Mrs. Louise Worra, Olaf Worra, Mrs. Lucille Scates and Terrill Scates, all of St. Paul, Minn., and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Birgo of Northfield, Minn.