Clara Mistelski  Lemmon, SD

Funeral services for Clara Mistelski, age 103, of Lemmon, will be 11:00am Saturday, February 12, at the Prince Of Peace Chapel of the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon. Charlotte Kvale will officiate with burial in Greenhill Cemetery at Lemmon.

Special music will be provided by Marcia Klitzke, organist and Darrel Klitzke, soloist.

Serving as casketbearers are her great-grandsons, Doug, Jeff, and Ryan Mistelski, Gary and Doug Ellison, and Ken Bachman.

CLARA BELL MARTIN was born March 1, 1901 in Paris, Illinois to John and Elizabeth (Trott) Martin. Her family came by train to Sioux Co., ND in 1913 where they homesteaded 8 miles northeast of Thunder Hawk. She attended school in Paris and near the family homesteaded northeast of Thunder Hawk. She grew up on the family farm and babysat neighboring children. Clara was united in marriage to Oswald S. Geiger on October 31, 1917 in McIntosh. Oswald passed away in Minneapolis, MN on June 20, 1921. On June 5, 1922, she was united in marriage to Henry Mistelski at Morristown. They farmed and ranched north of Thunder Hawk until 1929. They moved to California for a short time and then purchased a place north of Morristown. Henry passed away on November 29, 1959 in Elgin, ND. Clara continued to live on the place until entering Five Counties Nursing Home in Lemmon in May 1993. She passed from this life there on Wednesday evening February 9, at the age of 103 years, 11 months, 8 days.

She was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church in Morristown until its closing. Clara loved fishing and making quilts.

Surviving family members include her son and daughter-in-law, Calvin and Neva Mistelski, Morristown; two daughters and son-in-law, Rachel Miller and Irvin Stelter Elgin, ND; Bernice Rheinsburg, Medford, OR; one step-daughter, Eva Cochran, Howard Lake, MN; one sister, Margaret Wiley, Paris, IL; seven grandchildren, numerous great, great great, and great great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Oswald and Henry, one son Elmer Olwald Geiger in 1918; one daughter, Henrietta "Etsy" Wilson in 2003; one granddaughter, Joyce Lanfear in 1940; two sisters, Mamie Stout in 1952, Barbara Ann Peters in 1965; five brothers, John Arthur Martin in 1914; William Franklin Martin in 1970; Grant Leon Martin in 1969, Theodore Martin in 1915; and James Allen Martin in 1915.

Visitation will be Friday, 1:00 to 7:00pm; Saturday 9:00 to 11:00am, at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon.