Nancy Roberg

Nancy Frances (Lundwall) Roberg, age 101 of Iron River, MI, died Sunday March 7, 2010 at the Iron County Medical Care Facility, Crystal Falls, MI. Born: October 12, 1908 in Iron Mountain, MI The daughter of the late Oscar and Teckla (Ekquist) Lundwall lived in Stambaugh as a child, moving to Michigamme, MI with her family, where she graduated from high school in 1926. In 1928 she attended the Michigan School for the Deaf and Blind to become a certified teacher for the deaf. Nancy taught at the school in Flint, MI for five years and then for the Lutheran School for the Deaf in Detroit, MI for eight years. She later worked for Borg-Warner Corporation in Detroit as personnel director. She then taught school in Stambaugh for two years and then worked for the Iron County Department of Social Services until her retirement in 1973. Nancy married Rhinehart Roberg of Roberg's Bakery in Stambaugh in 1951 and the couple celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary in 1976. Rhinehart preceded her in death in 1979. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Iron River, former president of LCW at the church and active on the building committee for the educational wing at church. She was preceded in death by her brothers Lloyd, Ray, Ward, and Kenneth; and sisters Hazel Lundwall, Doris DeVowe, Janet Curtis, Margaret Wiggins, Alice Dishaw and Violet Chiolak She is survived by her stepdaughter, Mary Ann (Roberg) Reed of Las Vegas, NV; stepsons Rhinehart Roberg of Azuza, CA and Jim Juneau of Amasa; brother, Marlin Lundwall of Bergland, MI; sister-in-law Joyce Davies of Stambaugh, MI; granddaughter Terri Klymshyn, two great grandchildren, Lauren and John Klymshyn of Valencia, CA, and many nieces and nephews. Visitation: Wednesday March 10, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Iron River. Funeral Service: Wednesday March 10, 2010 at 11 a.m. at the First Lutheran Church of Iron River with Rev. Bonny Kinnunen, pastor, to officiate. Interment: Stambaugh Cemetery, Iron River Funeral arrangements by the Jacobs Funeral Home, Iron River.