Luella Wyborny Kaldenberg

Luella Wyborny Kaldenberg, 97, of rural Rock Falls, died Monday, June 2, 2008 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.  Funeral services will be held 10:30 AM Thursday at the Old Stone Church, Rock Falls, with Rev. Jim Turner officiating.  Interment will be in Rock Falls Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 PM Wednesday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Avenue and continue at the church one hour prior to the service.  Memorials may be given to the Old Stone Church, Rock Falls Cemetery or Hospice of North Iowa and directed to 7 East Jackson, Rock Falls, Iowa 50467.  On October 17, 1910, Luella Doris Christiansen was born to Carolina (Wohlert) and John Christiansen.  She was the 4th daughter, joining sisters Elsie, Minna, and Viola, later 2 brothers, Leonard and Clarence completed the family.  When Luella was 7 years old her mother died.  Two years later her father married Meta Peterson.  Meta had 3 sons, Arnold, Arthur, and William (Bill).  She attended country school through 8th grade and the Rock Falls High School.  June 2, 1928, she married Herbert Wyborny of Plymouth, Iowa and to that union six children were born, Roger, Novella, Marjorie, Arlo, Randy and James.  Luella and Herbert were farmers.  Luella always had a large garden and canned enough garden products to last a year or longer.  She helped her husband during spring planting and fall harvesting by milking cows and feeding all the farm animals.  She drove the horses to bring in the wagon loads of corn from the fields and helped unload them.  She sewed all her clothes and the clothes for her daughters as well as patched the overalls and darned the socks.  She did quilting, embroidering, crocheting and crafts.  Luella was a member and very active and deeply cared about her church, the Old Stone Methodist Church in Rock Falls.  For many years, she taught Sunday School and was Sunday School Superintendent.  She also was head of the Bible School for several years.  Luella was a member of the United Methodist Women and served as officer of many of the positions.  She was chairperson of many of their fund raising projects.  Luella got great enjoyment from her beloved L.U.G.A. 500 card club that was organized by her mother.  She joined this club after she was married.  She also belonged to the Rock Falls Senior Citizens, Rock Falls Garden Club, and the Rock Falls Birthday Club.  She enjoyed inviting friends and family over for meals and playing board games or card games with them.  She spent a lot of time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  She often baby sat them and she enjoyed playing all kinds of games and putting puzzles together with them.  She taught them to sew, crochet, and embroidery and went to many of their sporting events, musicals, and dance recitals. 
 
She is survived by 4 children; Roger (Shirley) Wyborny of Rock Falls, Novella (Don) White of Rock Falls, Randy Wyborny of Longmont, CO, James (Christi) Wyborny of Nora Springs; daughter-in-law, Sharon Wyborny of Mason City; son-in-law, Duaine Moore of Scottsdale, AZ, brothers, Clarence (Evelyn) Christiansen of Mason City and Leonard Christiansen of Mason City; 14 grandchildren, Vicki (Brian) Pederson, Mark (Lucia) Wyborny, Becky (Russell) Kidd, Tim (Donna) Moore, Monte (Dianne) Moore, Debbie (Don) Risius, Gregg Wyborny, Jeff Wyborny, Lisa Gibson, Anne Wyborny, Eric Wyborny, Libby Wyborny, Aly Wyborny and Kizzy Wyborny; 25 great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.
 
She was preceded in death by her parents, step-mother, husbands, Herbert Wyborny in 1969 and George Kaldenberg in 1982; daughter, Marjorie Moore in March of 2006; granddaughter, Beth White Ollanik in July of 1997; son, Arlo Wyborny in April of 2004; sisters, Viola Bailey, Minna Stupka and Elsie Tibbits.

Cemetery:
Rock Falls Cemetery

Visitation:
From 5:00 to 7:00 PM Wednesday at Major Erickson Funeral Home

Service:
10:30 AM Thursday at the Old Stone Methodist Church, Rock Falls.