- Date Of Birth: March 21, 1926
- Date Of Death: May 10, 2016
- State: Iowa
Mildred Bormann, age 90, of St. Joe, passed away Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at the Humboldt North Care Center in Humboldt. Mildred Elizabeth Bormann (Mame to her family and Millie at work at the bank) was born March 21, 1926, at the farm home of her parents, Henry Bormann and Victoria Josephine (Dora) Kenkel Bormann, in Riverdale Township, Kossuth County, Iowa. Mildred died on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at the Humboldt Care Center North.
Mildred grew up on the family farm, feeding chickens and gathering eggs, pulling cockleburs, picking up rocks, herding cattle on the lane and the road past the farm, gardening, housework, and helping to take care of her younger siblings. Mildred went to school in St. Joe, graduating from high school in 1943. After high school, Mildred worked as a “hired girl,” helping mothers of newborns care for their babies. From 1951 until 1957 Mildred worked with the school lunch program in St. Joe. In 1957, Mildred began work at the Security State Bank in Algona, which changed ownership many times over the years. Mildred worked her way up to the position of Assistant Vice President and worked there until her retirement. Mildred never married; she was a career woman who loved the banking profession.
Mildred was a lifelong member of St. Joseph Parish in St. Joe. Starting in 1971 she also did the bookkeeping for St. Joseph Parish for many years. She was a charter member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas in St. Joe. Mildred stayed on the farm and took care of her dad and mom when they were elderly. After the death of her parents, Mildred and her brother Kenneth acquired the family farm and she continued to live on the farm until she moved in with her sister Dorothy and brother-in-law Jim in Humboldt in 2004. In 2005 Mildred became a resident of the Humboldt Care Center North. Mildred loved to travel. She made three trips to Europe, one of them including travel to the Holy Land. On the last trip, in 2000, she went with her sister Dorothy and some cousins and included the Passion Play in Oberammergau in Germany and a visit with relatives in Luxembourg.
She traveled to many of the states in the U.S. and visited her sister Dorothy in Arlington, Virginia, and Dorothy and brother-in-law Jim in Atlanta, Georgia, and Fountain Valley, California. She went on many bus tours sponsored by the local banks. Mildred also enjoyed long walks, reading, music, crossword and jigsaw puzzles, sewing, embroidering and crocheting, stamps and coins, scrapbooks, card games, ceramics and family antiques. She kept up the family history and genealogy.
Mildred was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Kenneth Gerald Bormann, her brother Robert and sister-in-law Phyllis Bormann, her sister Mary Lou Lappe, her brother Herbert Bormann, her sister Eunice and brother-in-law Bernard Streit, and her nephew David Bormann. Mildred is survived by her brother Joel and sister-in-law Kathleen Bormann of Schaumburg, Illinois, and her sister Dorothy and brother-in-law James Shomaker of Humboldt, Iowa. She is also survived by her brother-in-law Joseph Lappe of Wesley, Iowa, and her sister-in-law Marlene Bormann of Humboldt, Iowa. Mildred was Aunt Mame to 24 nieces and nephews and was a great-aunt and great-great-aunt to many more.
