Erma
Wilde, 85
Thief
River Falls - Erma Wilde, 85, died Monday,
September 24, 2001 at Oakland Parking Nursing Home
in Thief River Falls.
Funeral
services will be held at 
11
a.m. on Friday, September 28, at Ebenezer Lutheran
Church, rural Oklee, with Rev. Robert Dahlen
officiating. Burial will be in Ebenezer Cemetery in
Mayfield Township of Pennington County.
Visitation
will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. with a 7 p.m. prayer
service on Thursday, September 27, at Green Funeral
Home in Thief River Falls and for one hour prior to
services at the church Friday.
Erma
Viola Bakken was born on March 17, 1916 on the
Bakken homestead in Star Township of Pennington
County, the daughter of Carl and Sina (Brakke)
Bakken. She was confirmed at Ekelund Lutheran
Church on July 6, 1930. She attended Little Oak
school in Hickory Township of Pennington County.
Erma worked as a cook for threshing crews and met
her husband while working as a caretaker for a
family in Highlanding.
On
March 14, 1941, she was united in marriage to
Fredrick Clifford Wilde at the Lutheran parsonage
in Thief River Falls.
Erma
was active at Ebenezer Church and with Ladies Aid
and Aid Association for Lutherans.
She
enjoyed rural farm life, baking bread, canning,
crocheting, sewing and sharing her many talents
with her children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Erma
is survived by her husband, Fredrick of Thief River
Falls; four daughters, Sharon (Roger) Forsberg and
Diane (Douglas) Torblaa, both of Thief River Falls
and Lois (Lynn) Anderson and Carol (Budd) Mermon,
both of Lake Park; three sons, Ralph and Leslie
(Trudy), both of Thief River Falls, and Dale (Rose)
of Detroit Lakes; 27 grandchildren; 37
great-grandchildren; a sister, Mabel Olson of
Keewatin, and a daughter-in-law, Sheryl Wilde of
Oklee.
She
was preceded in death by a son, Dennis; a grandson,
Joshua Wilde; her parents; six sisters, Hannah
Arveson, Jennie Sunsdahl, Selma Nash, Lila
Martinson, Palma Strand and Esther Solseng; and a
brother, Alvin Bakken. A00003B2001SP26
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