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Death: Clarkfield, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
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Source:
Granite Falls Advocate Tribune, June 10, 2010:
Ione E. (Wentz) Schwartzwalter, 88, died on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at the Clarkfield Care Center.
Funeral services were held on Monday, June 7 at Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Streeter, North Dakota, officiated by Pastor Darwin Kopfmann. Interment was at Friedens Cemetery in rural Streeter, North Dakota.
Ione was born December 18, 1921, in Streeter, North Dakota to George and Margaretha (Graf) Wentz. She attended school in Streeter and graduated in 1940. In the fall of 1940, she started work at the Bank of Steele in Steele, North Dakota.
She married Emil Schwartzwalter July 28, 1946 at Steele. They lived and farmed five miles west of Streeter. In 1963, they moved to Steele where Ione again worked at the bank. In 1967, they moved to Fargo where she helped her husband operate the Norge Laundry and Dry Cleaning Village. In 1975, she worked at the South Fargo Ben Franklin Store as an assistant manager until the store closed in 1997. In August 2006, she moved to Arnegard, North Dakota to live with her daughter Merna, (Jim) Bredwick. She moved to the Clarkfield Care Center in Clarkfield in April of 2010 due to ill health.
Ione was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church in Fargo. She was a charter member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post #265 in Streeter and served as its first president. She was a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary and a member of the Streeter Happy Homemakers Club.
Ione is survived by son Gregory (Linda) Schwartzwalter of Moorhead; four daughters: Myra (Lynn) McCarty, Maxbass, North Dakota; Merna (Jim) Bredwick, Arnegard, North Dakota; Melanie (Jon) Loy Worthington; Melita (David) Hildahl, Clarkfield; sister LoEtta Feigert, Bismarck, North Dakota; brothers Ed (Bev) Wentz, Sun City, Arizona; Ray (Lois) Wentz, Jamestown, North Dakota; LeRoy (Velma) Wentz of Lemmon, South Dakota; 10 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren; Stephanie (Jon) Gilbraith, Audrey and Nathan, Glenburn, North Dakota; Robert Cox, Jamestown, North Dakota; Chelsea, Watford City, North Dakota; Greta (Kentucky) Sago, Kaden, Rylan, Trevin, Colson, Aubryn, Sidney, Montana; Clay and Colby Schwartzwalter, Moorhead; Phillip (Maari) Loy, Fargo, North Dakota; Eric and Heather Loy, Worthington; Jenna and Spencer Hildahl, Clarkfield; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; five brothers; four sisters; and a granddaughter.
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