The Hartley Sentinel-The Everly/Royal News - Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

A memorial service for Wilma P. “Willy” Grauer was held Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Sanborn. Pastor Joseph Bangert officiated. Interment was in Roseland Cemetery at Sanborn. Sanborn Funeral Home assisted with the arrangements.

Wilma Pearle “Willy” Grauer, youngest of seven children of Robert A. and Ruth I. (Mitchell) Ferris, was born in rural Cherokee, Afton Township, on Aug. 7, 1935.

She received her early education through the country school system, attending Afton #2 along with four of her siblings. While in third grade her parents purchased a farm in Grand Mea...