Obituaries

 

Melba Jonas

PORTAGE  --  Melba Jonas, age 93, of Portage, went to be with her Lord Jesus on January 15, 2016.

Melba was born in Portage, on March 21, 1922. She was the daughter of Edmund and Ella Marquart of Cambria. She was baptized on April 16, 1922, and confirmed in the Lord on April 14, 1935, in Cambria. She was a graduate of Randolph High School and attended Spencerian Business College in Milwaukee. On November 11, 1943, she married Walter Jonas in Friesland, and after the war, they lived their entire life in Portage. She worked as an accountant and secretary and joined City Bank and Trust Company of Portage (now US Bank) in March of 1963. She held numerous positions from secretary to the executive officer, as well as becoming personnel officer of the bank in 1972, assistant cashier in 1973 and vice president in 1975 from where she retired after 21 years. After her retirement, she devoted much of her time to various volunteer work and to her family. She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Portage.

She is survived by one son, Douglas (Laurie) and three grandsons, Mark, Kevin (Lauren) and Andrew; two great grandsons, Drake and Dean; one sister, Norma Krueger; and many nieces and nephews. Melba was preceded in death by her husband, parents and one sister, Gertrude Anderson.

Thank you to all the angels dressed as staff at the Heritage House of Portage where she has resided for the past eight years, and to St. Croix Hospice for all of their help. You are all such a blessing!

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, January 19, 2016, from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at Pflanz Mantey Mendrala Funeral Home in Portage and on Wednesday, from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Funeral services will be held at the church at 12:00 noon, with Rev. Greg Hovland presiding. Interment will take place at Randolph Cemetery at 2:00 p.m.

Memorials may be given in her memory to St. John’s Lutheran Church in Portage.

 

 

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