{"id":15035,"date":"2023-08-21T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=15035"},"modified":"2023-08-29T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:18:38","slug":"wilma-marie-clausen-sumner-iowa-august-21-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2023\/08\/wilma-marie-clausen-sumner-iowa-august-21-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilma Marie Clausen,  Sumner, Iowa, August 21, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15064 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clausen-Wilma-news-pic-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clausen-Wilma-news-pic-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clausen-Wilma-news-pic-250x362.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clausen-Wilma-news-pic-68x98.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/clausen-Wilma-news-pic.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wilma Marie Clausen died Monday, August 21 at the age of 96.\u00a0 She was born on May 28, 1927, in Butterfield, Minnesota.\u00a0 Her parents were Elsie Becker Seavert and Louis Seavert.\u00a0 She attended Northwest Institute of Medical Technology on Minneapolis and became a lab and x-ray technician. On January 18, 1948, she married Robert (Bob) Clausen at Salem Lutheran Church in Comfrey, Minnesota.\u00a0 They settled in Comfrey and Wilma worked at Comfrey Hospital as an office nurse.<\/p>\n<p>Bob and Wilma\u2019s brother, Allen, purchased a grocery store in Comfrey. After fifteen years, the couple moved to Luverne, Minnesota, and purchased a hardware store. In 1969, Bob and Wilma moved to West Union, Iowa, where Bob secured work.\u00a0 In 1971, Wilma worked at the Super Valu grocery store and retired in 2002. Wilma enjoyed golfing, reading, playing Scrabble and Bridge.\u00a0 She and Bob travelled following their children, seeing historical sites in the States and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving Wilma are her children Linda (Steve Eberlein) Las Cruces, New Mexico; Neal (Ann), Blooming Prairie, Minnesota; James, Sumner, Iowa; and Julie (Ron Peters), Prior Lake, Minnesota.\u00a0Also surviving are six grandchildren:\u00a0 Sean Griffin, Oakland, California; Michael Griffin Lansing, Michigan, Amanda Clausen, Minneapolis; Trenton Clausen, Des Moines, Iowa <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15065 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clausen-Wilma-younger-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clausen-Wilma-younger-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clausen-Wilma-younger-250x363.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clausen-Wilma-younger-68x99.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Clausen-Wilma-younger.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/>and Madison Clausen, West Union, Iowa; honorary grandson is Dalton Wenthe.\u00a0 Wilma was preceded in death by her husband, Bob and grandson, Christopher Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>A Graveside Service will be held at 1:00 pm on Saturday, September 9, 2023 at West Union Cemetery, West Union, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials may be given to your local library in Wilma&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham-Wood-Grau Funeral Home of West Union, Iowa is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilma Marie Clausen died Monday, August 21 at the age of 96.\u00a0 She was born on May 28, 1927, in Butterfield, Minnesota.\u00a0 Her parents were Elsie Becker Seavert and Louis Seavert.\u00a0 She attended Northwest Institute of Medical Technology on Minneapolis and became a lab and x-ray technician. On January 18, 1948, she married Robert (Bob) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1114],"class_list":["post-15035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-clausen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15069,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions\/15069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}