Funeral services for 97-year-old Mildred Wegner of Butterfield, Minnesota, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning, December 9, 2016, at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. James, Minnesota, with Reverend Robert Hellmann officiating. The church is located at 315 9th Street South.
Burial will be in St. Matthew’s Lutheran Cemetery, adjacent to Butterfield City Cemetery, south of Butterfield, south of Watonwan County Road #5 and southeast of Minnesota State Highway #60.
Visitation will be at Sturm Funeral Home-St. James Chapel, on Thursday, December, 2016, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The funeral home is located at 906 10th Avenue South. A second visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral services from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.sturmfh.com.
Arrangements are with Sturm Funeral Home-St James Chapel.
Mildred Wegner passed away on Friday, December 2, 2016, at the Benedictine Living Community in St. Peter, Minnesota.
Mildred Ruth (Van Brunt) Wegner was born in Truman, Minnesota, the daughter of Gilbert and Anna (Bachelor) Van Brunt, on January 29, 1919. Mildred grew up in Truman and was a graduate of Truman High School in 1937. After high school, she attended Mankato Commercial College in Mankato, Minnesota, and graduated in 1938.
Mildred was working at the Truman Light Company when she met Herbert Wegner. On Feb 9, 1941, Mildred was united in marriage to Herbert Wegner at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1942, the couple moved to rural Butterfield, where they farmed and raised turkeys.
Mildred was confirmed at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Butterfield in 1942.
Mildred and Herbert had three children, Dennis, Pat and Pix. Mildred was a loving homemaker and also worked at the Madelia Turkey Plant in Madelia, Minnesota; Scherr Tumico in St. James and Butterfield Produce in Butterfield.
Mildred was active in her church and served as Treasurer for St. Matthew’s Ladies Aid and AAL (Aid Association for Lutherans) group and helped make hundreds of quilts that were given to service men and lap quilts for the elderly. She was also active in the ladies’ Watonwan County Extension group and had learned the art of net darning and gave classes in it. In her free time, Mildred loved baking, cooking, sewing and crafts. She had a collection of angels, many of which she made and gave to everyone. She was an angel herself, for she had the disposition of one.
Mildred is survived by her children, Dennis (Sandra) Wegner of New Ulm, Minnesota, Patricia (William) Gray of Butterfield and Priscilla “Pixie” Wegner of Comfrey, Minneosta; grandchildren, Dean Wegner of Aurora, Colorado, Michael Wegner of Comfrey and Cristoffer Bertilson (Shawn Belanger) of International Falls, Minnesota; eight step-grandchildren; one great-grandchild, Isabelle Filipa-Wegner of Rosemount, Minnesota; sister-in-law, Marilyn “Mickey” Wegner of Arlington Heights, Illinois and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Wegner; parents, Gilbert and Anna Van Brunt; brother, Willard (Sadie) Van Brunt; seven brothers-in-law; three sisters-in-law; six nieces and six nephews.
