Viola Bartels
April 19, 1927 — August 26, 2016
Viola Bartels, 89, of Grand Island died Friday, August 26, 2016 at the Nebraska Veterans Home in Grand Island.
Services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday at Christ Lutheran Church in St. Paul. Reverend Thomas Clark will officiate. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery in St. Paul.
Visitation will be on Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. until service time at the church.
Memorials are suggested to the family’s choice.
Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Bartels was born April 19, 1927 in Scotland, South Dakota to George and Alvina (Schmidt) Bender.
Viola was raised in Scotland and attended Scotland schools where she graduated in 1945.
She was united in marriage to Bernard J. Bartels on April 20, 1947. She spent most of her 68 years of marriage in Nebraska. This union was blessed with five sons, Stephen, James, Dwight, Timothy and Brian.
Viola spent her time being a homemaker and raising her family.
During her lifetime, they lived in Tobias, NE, Danbury, IA, Bradshaw, NE and Wagner, SD because of her husband’s employment. After Bernard’s retirement the couple lived in Albion and St. Paul.
The couple moved to the Nebraska Veterans Home in Grand Island on March 29, 2011.
She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in St. Paul.
Survivors include five sons and three daughters-in-law, Stephen and Terry Bartels of Greeley, CO, James and Sharleen Bartels of St. Paul, Dwight Bartels of Manhattan, KS, Timothy Bartels of Champion, NE and Brian and Stacy Bartels of Jewell, IA; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three step grandchildren; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Robert and Madelyn Bender of Holt, FL and Raymond and Yvonne Bender of Spearfish, SD; and two sisters and brothers-in-law, Donna and Paul Phillips of Yankton, SD and Judith and Willard Bartels of Tobias, NE.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Bernard on November 18, 2015; a sister, Shirley Bender and brother, Wayne Bender, who both died in infancy; and a great-granddaughter.