Selma Wiens

Funeral services for 96-year-old Selma Wiens of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, December 16, 2017, at Community Bible Church in Mountain Lake. The church is located at 500 Klein Street.

Interment will be in the Carson Mennonite Brethren Cemetery, located on the north side of 350th Street, east of 520th Avenue, in rural Delft, Minnesota.

Visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral service from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Online condolences to the family may be sent to www.sturmfh.com.

Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel is handling the arrangements.

Selma Wiens passed away today (Friday, December 8, 2017), at the Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake-The Village.

Selma Lena Wiens was born to Peter W. and Lena (Ediger) Wiens on November 19, 1921, in Carson Township near Bingham Lake, Minnesota. Her parents moved to rural Hampton, Nebraska when she was three weeks old. Her father passed away in 1925 from complications of the flu, and her 10-day-old brother died a week before that. Selma attended a rural school during grades one through eight and graduated from Henderson (Nebraska) High School in 1939. She moved back to Minnesota, near Delft, right after graduation. She worked as a hired girl for different farm families in the area and for several months in the kitchen of the Bethel Hospital in Mountain Lake as a fill-in for girls on vacation.

Selma went to California in 1945 and worked as a maid and housekeeper in a private home in Dinula. She returned to Minnesota in 1947. She enrolled at Mankato State Teacher’s College in the fall of 1947 and received her two-year certificate in 1949. Selma taught in rural schools at Gibbon, Minnesota and Mountain Lake. Working toward her Bachelor of Science Degree during summers and off-campus night classes, she received her degree in 1958. She taught at Windom Public Schools in Windom, Minnesota for 32 years and retired in 1984.

Selma accepted Christ as her Savior at age 13 and was baptized at age 17, joining the Carson Church as a member.

In 1950, she moved with her mother to a new home in Mountain Lake where she resided until April 15, 2005.

She enjoyed traveling, making numerous trips to California, went to the World’s Fair in New York in 1965, and to Nova Scotia in 1978. Numerous trips were made to Nebraska, some to Oklahoma, and one to Saskatchewan, Canada. Selma enjoyed going to the Mennonite Brethren Conferences and attended the Central District Conference and the United States General Conference in Reedley, California after retiring. She loved to work as a volunteer at Care and Share in Mountain Lake and helped there until moving to assisted living at the Eventide in Mountain Lake in 2005.

Selma was on the Laker Apartments board for 20 years and also worked with the MinnKota Auction in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for many years. Her activities at the Mennonite Brethren Church, now Community Bible, included choir, Kings Daughters, AWANA and food committee.

She is survived by nieces and nephews, Darla (Mike) Jackson, DeVon (Lynette) Wiens, Dawn Alfaro, Lynette Wiens, Charie (Mike) Wall, Gwen Wiens, Chuck Wiens, Twyla Wiens, Rhonda Wiens, and Curt (Cindy) Wiens and sister-in-law, Burdine Wiens.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Peter W. and Lena (Ediger) Wiens; brothers, Leander, Waldo and Alvin “Duke” and sisters-in-law, Helen Wiens and Rachel Wiens.

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