Sylvia Granberg

Sylvia Augusta Granberg, age 95, of New London, died Wednesday morning, March 10, at the Glen Oaks Care Center in New London.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM on Monday, March 15, at Faith Lutheran Church in Spicer. Interment will be in the Spicer City Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Monday. Funeral arrangements are with Green Lake Funeral Home in Spicer.

Sylvia was born February 2, 1915, in Chippewa County, Minnesota, to Dirk and Minnie (Prekker) Gaasterland. She grew up in the Clara City area and was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Clara City. At the age of eight, she moved with her family to Pennock, Minnesota, where she attended school through eighth grade. She was confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Raymond. When she was eighteen, her family moved to Spicer, Minnesota, where she joined the Zion Lutheran Church, which later became Faith Lutheran Church. Here she met and married Reuben Jacobson on June 16, 1936. They lived in Spicer their entire married life, except for eight months when they lived in Cyrus, Minnesota. Reuben died in 1976. On January 3, 1984, Sylvia married Harold Granberg of Eagle Lake, Minnesota, and they made their home in Spicer. Harold died in 2002.

Sylvia taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School for many years, held offices in the ladies' organizations of the church and was on the Church Stewardship Committee. She was co-organizer of the Brownie Troop in Spicer and chaired the March of Dimes' cancer and heart campaigns for many years. She worked as a reporter for the New London-Spicer Times and West Central Tribune for several years.

In her earlier years, Sylvia enjoyed knitting, fishing, traveling, cooking and baking, especially making homemade doughnuts. She also enjoyed walking and visiting with her friends. Sylvia loved to laugh.

She is survived by several nieces and nephews; three stepchildren; eight step-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; several grandnephews, grandnieces, great-grandnephews and great-grandnieces besides other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; both husbands, Reuben Jacobson and Harold Granberg; two sisters, Henrietta and Katie and two brothers, Cornelius and Peter.