Selma
Waldal, 90
Plummer
- Selma "Sally" Waldal, died 
Friday, February 8, 2002 at Hillcrest Nursing Home
in Red Lake Falls.
Funeral
services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today
(Wednesday, February 13) at Immanuel Lutheran
Church in Plummer with Rev. Frank Ehling
officiating. Linda Olson will be the organist, and
Merlin and Judy Carlson will be the vocalists.
Casketbearers will include Sally's nephews, Mike
Seeger, Steve Seeger, Brad Seeger, Larry Waldal,
John Waldal, and Paul Waldal. Burial will be in
Emardville Cemetery in Plummer.
Visitation
was held from 6 to 8 p.m. with a 7 p.m. prayer
service Tuesday February 12, at Johnson Funeral
Home in Red Lake Falls. Visitation will also be
held for one hour prior to services at the
church.
Selma
Josephine Waldal was born on February 27, 1911 in
Emardville Township near Plummer, the daughter of
Alfred J. and Clara (Olson) Waldal. She attended a
rural school and later the Northwest School of
Agriculture in Crookston.
Selma
did sewing for people in Oklee and from 1945 to
1949, owned and operated a dress making shop in
Portland, Ore. During the war, she worked at Boeing
and then returned to Red Lake Falls where she
operated a dress shop for a few years. She also
worked as a seamstress at Narverud Cleaners in
Thief River Falls. Later on, Selma moved to
Chicago, Ill., where she worked as a dress fitter
for Marshall Fields for 18-1/2 years.
Before
returning to Plummer in 1989, Selma lived in
Tucson, Ariz. for 9-1/2 years. She then moved to
Riverside Apartments in Thief River Falls where she
resided for 9-1/2 years before moving to Hillcrest
Nursing Home in Red Lake Falls on May 29,
1998.
Selma
enjoyed traveling, journeying to Sweden, Norway,
and Denmark several times. She also enjoyed writing
letters and sewing.
Survivors
include two brothers, James (Lydia) of Vancouver,
Wash. and Lawrence of Plummer; six sisters, Clara
Auch of Bradbury, Calif., Marie Seeger of Red Lake
Falls, Beatrice (Clayton) Larson of Plummer,
Rosella (Kenneth) McDonald of Marrillville, Ind.,
Helen (Wayne) Ober of Flat Rock, Mich. and Carolyn
(Wesley) Myhre of Brooks; and several nieces and
nephews.
Selma
was preceded in death by her parents; a brother,
Alvin Waldal; her stepmother, Rose Waldal; a
sister-in-law; and two brothers-in-law.
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