Florence A. Teter, 85 of Wolbach died Monday, April 13, 2015 at the Greeley Care Home in Greeley.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Wolbach. Vicar Marcia Dorn will officiate. Interment will be in Hillside Cemetery in Wolbach.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at the church in Wolbach.
Memorials are suggested to Trinity Lutheran Church or the Wolbach Park Fund.
Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Teter was born November 8, 1929 in Wolbach to Algie and Lollie (Anderson) Wibbels.
She attended Star School to the 8th grade and Wolbach High School where she graduated in 1947. Florence then took Normal Training in Wolbach and taught school for 3 years in a country school near Wolbach. She began attending the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
She was united in marriage to Stuart Teter on December 27, 1950 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Wolbach.
The couple first lived in Lincoln so Florence could finish her semester at UNL. When Stuart entered the military, Florence lived with her parents for a short time before joining Stuart at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. When Stuart was deployed to Japan, Florence returned to Wolbach.
When Stuart returned from the service, the couple lived east of Wolbach for a year, they then moved to a farm 9 miles west of Cedar Rapids where they lived for 14 years. In 1967, Stuart purchased a garage in Wolbach and the couple moved to Wolbach where they have lived since.
Florence cooked in the Wolbach schools from 1967-1975.
Florence liked flowers and working in her garden. She also enjoyed embroidering, quilting, camping and taking walks. Florence was a good cook.
The family took several trips to Disneyland and Disneyworld.
She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, the church circle and Ladies Aid of Wolbach and the Ray Mapes American Legion Auxiliary of Wolbach.
Survivors include her husband, Stuart of Wolbach; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Rodney and Charlotte Teter of Las Vegas, Kurt and Diane Teter of Wolbach and Chris Teter of Wahoo; three daughters and sons-in-law, Gayle and Steve Grossart and Rhonda and Mark Allen all of Wolbach and Jane and Butch Spence of Elkhorn, IA; seventeen grandchildren; twenty seven great-grandchildren; one brother and sister-in-law, Melvin and Beverly Wibbels of Boise, ID and a sister-in-law, Cathy Wibbels of Columbus.
She was preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Ray, Leonard and Edsel Wibbels.