Irene Stadheim

The Funeral Service for Irene V. Stadheim, of Albert Lea , will be held at 11:00 A.M.

on Thursday, June 3, 2010, at Grace Lutheran Church . The Reverend Todd Walsh will officiate. Interment will be in Hillcrest Cemetery . Visitation will be one hour

before the service at the church. Bonnerup Funeral Service is assisting the family with arrangements. Irene died on Friday, May 28, 2010, at ThorneCrest Retirement Community. She was 99. She was born on June 1, 1910, in Hampton , Iowa , the daughter of Ford and Carrie (Nelson) Miller. Irene was baptized by the Reverend Earle Shields at the Methodist Church in Austin , Minnesota. Irene graduated from Austin High School in 1927. She was united in marriage to Orville Stadheim at the Little Brown Church in Nashua , Iowa . Irene had worked at George Hormel Co. in Austin for 12 years and Wilson & Co in Albert Lea for two and a half years.

She was a Charter member of Grace Lutheran Church where she had served on

the Altar Guild and had worked many years on funerals and weddings. Irene enjoyed working on flowers and playing the organ by ear. She is survived by sister’s-in-law: Altine (Stadheim) Johanson and her husband Armand of Bloomington, MN, Marilyn (Stadheim) Renne of Edina, MN, and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1994, her sister Mrs. Gladys Palo, three brothers, Orvie, Howard and Harold and a brother and sister in infancy.