Obit: Zier, Wilma Anna (1911 - 1992)

Contact: Linda Mertens

Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Zier, Ahrens, Kramer, Sabaska, McCarron, Johnson, Murray, Weingartner


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Wilma Anna Zier (30 Dec 1911 - 2 Dec 1992)

Wilma Anna Zier, 80, Dorchester, died on December 24, 1992, at the Colonial House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Colby. Services were held at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dorchester with the Rev. Daniel Ahrens officiating. Burial was in the Dorchester Memorial Cemetery.

Wilma Zier was born December 30, 1911, at Weyerhaeuser to the late Frank and Lena (Kramer) Sabaska. She married Clarence Zier on June 5, 1937, at Watertown. A graduate of Weyerhaeuser High School, she worked in Evanston, Ill. After her marriage she and her husband moved to Nebraska where he taught school. They returned to live in Dorchester in 1951.

She was a member of the Dorchester Senior Citizens Club, the County Line Homemakers and St. Peter Lutheran Church, where she taught Sunday and Vacation Bible School. She was a volunteer at the Bethesda Thrift Store in Wausau for over 10 years.

She is survived by two sons, Sam (Linnea) of Abbotsford and Dan (Diane) of Dorchester; three daughters, Janis McCarron of Colby, Mrs. Rebecca (Sid) Johnson of Tucson, Ariz., and Mrs. Debra (Louis) Murray of Black River Falls; one brother, Sam Sabaska of Salinas, Cal.; two sisters, Mrs. Lucille (Roy) Weingartner of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Connie Johnson of Duluth, Minn.; and nine grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband, Clarence, on October 25, 1989; three sisters and infant twin granddaughters.