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- Bio: Avis Weringa
- Avis M. Weringa, age 83 of Elmore, Minnesota died Thursday, September 15, 2011 at St. Luke's Lutheran Care Center in Blue Earth, MN
- Services will be Monday September 19th 10:30AM at Shiloh Lutheran Church in Elmore, MN with burial in St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery in Lakota, IA. Visitation will be one hour prior to services.
- Avis (Johnson) Weringa was born October 13, 1927 in Rake, Iowa. She was the daughter of John and Bertha (Olson) Johnson. Avis was one of eight children.
- On November 14, 1946 Avis married Albert Weringa at the Zion Lutheran Church in Rake, IA. From this union, they were blessed with eight children.
- Avis was a dedicated homemaker and she also spent time working at Walker Deluxe in Lake Mills, IA; St. Luke's Lutheran Care Center in Blue Earth, MN and cooked at the Elmore Senior Center. In her spare time, she enjoyed sewing, cooking and fishing. Music and singing were also a passion of hers. Avis loved her grandchildren and great grandchildren and felt any time spent with family was time well spent. Family meant everything to her.
- Those left to cherish her memory are her children: Terry (Linda) Weringa of Elmore, MN; Cinda Hagedorn of Elmore, MN; Tom (Dawn) Weringa of Elmore, MN; Steve Weringa of Elmore, MN; Scot Weringa of Elmore, MN; Carla (Harold) Prokop of Elmore, MN; Brad Weringa of Blooming Prairie, MN and Eric (Michelle) Weringa of Winnebago, MN. Twenty grandchildren and twenty two great grandchildren. Three sisters: Bernice Engebretson of Forest City, IA; Audrey Boekelman of Titonka, IA and Judy Sorenson of Manhattan, KS.
- She was preceded in death by her parents, her loving husband Albert; two brothers, two sisters and a granddaughter.
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