Evelyn Bomstad

Evelyn M. Bomstad, age 88, of Willmar, died Wednesday morning, March 12th, at the Bethesda PleasantView Nursing Home.
Services will be held at 11 A.M., Saturday, March 15th, at the First Baptist Church in Willmar. The interment will be in the Cloverleaf Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 5-7 P.M. Friday at Peterson Brothers Funeral Home and at the church 1 hour prior to the service.
Evelyn May Bomstad was born August 14, 1919, in Clear Lake Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, the daughter of Cyrus K. and Anna F. (Ludemann) Winter. In 1922 the family moved to Villard, Minnesota, where she grew and received her education. Evelyn graduated from Villard High School in 1937, earned a two-year teaching degree from St. Cloud State College and then taught school at District 83 near Lake Lillian. On December 22, 1940 she married Maurice Bomstad in Blomkest and in 1941 they established a home in Willmar. She was a teacher in the Willmar Public Schools, drove the Bookmobile and worked for the Kandiyohi County Library until her retirement in 1981. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Willmar where she served on the C.E. Board, was a member of the women's circle, taught classes, and was the church librarian.
She is survived by five children; Gary (and Lois Pinsent) Bomstad of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Linda (and John) Taylor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Nancy (and Rev. Ronald) Snyder of Willmar, Susan (and Leland) Granlund of Roseville and Dale (and Debra) Bomstad of Willmar. Also surviving are thirteen grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren, one brother, Walter (and Kaye) Winter of Villard, one sister, Hazel (and LeRoy) Krueger of Morris and sister-in-law, Violet Winter of Sterling, Colorado, besides other relatives and friends. Evelyn was preceded in death by her parents; husband (Maurice in 2006), one daughter (Judith Mclver), one grandson (Bradley McIver) and two brothers (Wesley and Fred Winter).