Olga Wendel

Funeral services for Olga Wendel were held Saturday, January 29, 2005, at 11:00 a.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church at Postville, Iowa. The Reverend Allen Hermeier officiated assisted by Greg Hamm. Organist was Joann Martins. The Casket Bearers were: Philip Storla, Sigurd Ness, Richard Storla, DuWayne Storla, Curtis Storla, Rudy Hesla. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery. The Schutte Funeral and Cremation Service of Postville was in charge of arrangements.
Olga Signora (Storla) Wendel was born July 13, 1903, in Paint Creek Township, Allamakee County, near Waterville, Iowa, to Ole O Storla and Julia (Paulson) Storla. She passed away Wednesday, January 26, 2005, in the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon, Iowa.
She was baptized in the East Paint Creek Synod Lutheran Church at Waterville, and confirmed there in the Norwegian Language. She became a member of the Waterville Lutheran Church in 1944 and was presently a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville. Olga attended the rural Storla School north of Waterville.
On August 31, 1927 Olga was married to Earl Gustave Wendel at the home of her parents. To this union a son, Kenneth was born. They lived on a farm near Churchtown, Iowa. In 1934 Earl and Olga moved to a farm north of Waterville. In 1963 they moved to Postville where they helped their son on his farm.
Olga was a homemaker all of her life. She loved to raise flowers, including glads and had a big garden. She was a seamstress and made clothes for family members. Olga enjoyed tatting, crocheting, embroidery work and piecing and stitching quilts. She was an excellent cook, especially Norwegian foods, which included lefse, meatballs, sandbakkels, Berlin Kranser, Rulepolse, and Falligman Bagelse, "scratch" cakes, doughnuts, and rolled sugar cookies. She also collected china cups and salt and pepper shakers.
Surviving is her son, Kenneth (Marcella) Wendel, Postville, three grandchildren, Susan (Bruce) Snively, West Union, Ronald Wendel, Ketchikan, AK, and Sandra (Dennis) Bahls, Elkader; six great grandchildren: Ann McNeil (fiancé, John Cannon), Cedar Falls, Matthew Wendel, USN, Saratoga Springs, NY, twins, Jonathon and Courtney Wendel, both of Ketchikan, AK, Melissa (Chris) Hines, Cedar Rapids, Jordan Bahls, Ames.
Also surviving is a brother, Ove (Mildred) Storla, Dubuque, Nieces and Nephews and cousins: Philip Storla, Waukon, Joyce Kuhse, Postville, Marian (Jack) DeValk, Germantown, WI, and Elaine Fox, Milwaukee, WI, Helen (Jerry) Behrens, Colgate, WI, Chester (Marilyn) Johnson, Salt Lake City, UT, Richard (Patsy) Storla, Lynnville, NC, Janet (Steven) Blom, Janesville, WI, DuWayne Storla, Cuba City, WI, Carol Storla, LaCrosse, WI, Curtis (Dede) Storla, Harpers Ferry, IA, Rudy (Marian) Hesla, Waterville, IA.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Earl, who died August 15, 1974, her parents, three brothers, Olvin, Hartvig, and Clarence Storla, four sisters, twins, Thora Johnson and Sophia Gulrud; Pauline Johnson, and Helen Storla, and a grandson-in-law, Edward McNeil.