Thelma Spilman

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Thelma Spilman

Thelma in 1937 at the "Home Place" Clear Lake, IA Courtesy of Anne Cooper


Another photo from 1937 Courtesy of Anne Cooper

Thelma Duregger, 93, of Apple Valley 405 27th Ave. S., Clear Lake, Iowa died Friday March 1, 2013 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services will be 10:30a.m. Wednesday March 6, 2013 at the Galilean Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, Iowa with Rev. Scott McCluskey officiating. Interment will be in Clear Lake Cemetery, Clear Lake, Iowa. Visitation will be Tuesday from 4:00p.m.-6:00p.m. at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel and then one hour before the service on Wednesday at the church. The family suggests memorials to Thelma Duregger memorial fund.

Thelma was born Sept. 16, 1919 on the family farm south of Clear Lake, Iowa the daughter of Daniel and Alphena (Thompson) Spilman Jr. She attended Eden Farm School.
Thelma married Virgil (Jiggs) Duregger on Aug. 20, 1939. They began a family and lived and worked in the Clear Lake area.

She enjoyed cooking, cleaning, reading newspapers, playing cards , her pets and raising her children. She was well known as a gracious hostess and entertaining relatives and friends. She loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Thelma is survived by her three children Sam Duregger, Westminster, Colorado, Steve ( Deb) Duregger, Clear Lake, Iowa and Anne (Dennis) Cooper, Clear Lake, Iowa; three grandchildren Paul (Kellie) Cooper, Clear Lake, Iowa, Allison (Jon) Klaassen, Forest City, Iowa and Stephanie Duregger, Clear Lake, Iowa; seven great-grandchildren Ashlin Cooper, Olivia Cooper, Addison Cooper, Owen Cooper, Sam Klaassen, Kate Klaassen and Tess Klaassen; sister Betty Thomas, Clear Lake, Iowa; brother Daniel T. Spilman, Rockwell, Iowa; sisters-in-law Audrey Spilman, Alma Spilman, Phyllis "Till" Spilman Clear Lake, Iowa; many nieces and nephews and Russell Rayburn whom she loved as a son. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Virgil of 59 years; four brothers Dale, Orval, Wayne and Sam Spilman; two sisters Helen Duregger and an infant sister Anna. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. 4th St., Clear Lake, Iowa 50428. 641-357-2193. Colonial Chapels.com

Thelma married Virgil Duregger and together they had three children:

  1. Sammy Duregger

  2. Stephen Jay Duregger (Debbie)
    a. Stephanie Duregger

  3. Anna Alphene Duregger (Dennis Ray Cooper)
    a. Allison Renee Cooper (Jonathan Dean Klaassen)
        A. Tina Marie Klaassen
    b. Paul Andrew Cooper
     

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Daniel Spilman 1848-1915 - Life in England before going to the United States.
-Birth Certificate,   Sloop Walcot, Whitton Windmill, Map of North Lincolnshire to America 1870.
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Letters from America back to England
-Dan's marriage to Thea Anderson and his farm in Clear Lake, IA
  Marriage Certificate, 1912 plat map, Photo of Thea, Thea's death certificate
-Dan and Thea Spilman's children  photos 1893, 1898, 1961