Wilda Pfeifer, age 87, of Luverne, MN, died on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, at the Good Samaritan Society – Mary Jane Brown Home.
Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 24, at the Fillmore Methodist Church in Fillmore. Burial will be at Mount Moriah Cemetery in rural Coffeen. Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne, MN, is assisting the family with arrangements.
Mrs. Pfeifer as born on March 13, 1935, to Floyd and Rhoda (Spears) Hill in the farm home in Montgomery County. She attended Alexander Country School through the eighth grade and then completed her education at Fillmore High School in Fillmore.
Following graduation, Mrs. Pfeifer attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. She then taught elementary school in several schools in Fayette County and later northern Illinois and Iowa. Mrs. Pfeifer spent most of her career teaching second grade and later, junior high school art class. Upon the death of her father in 1975, she resigned from her teaching position at Green, Iowa, to become a companion and caretaker to her mother. She also worked as a substitute teacher in Hillsboro and Ramsey, Illinois.
She married Roy Pfeifer on Jan. 11, 1985, and the couple moved to Coffeen. At this time, she took a clerking job at a grocery store in town. Mrs. Pfiefer was active in the Fillmore United Methodist Church Women’s group, Royal Neighbors, Red Hat Society, Senior Citizens Club and Bunco Group. She enjoyed embroidery work, making quilts, traveling and spending time with her family. In January 2022, she moved to Luverne, MN, and became a resident of the Good Samaritan Society – Mary Jane Brown Home.
Mrs. Pfeifer is survived by her sister, Melba Boeve of Luverne, MN; sister-in-law, Opal Lawrence of Hillsboro; and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband on June 17, 2004; parents; infant sister, Frances Hill; brother, Sollie Hill; aunts and uncles; three nephews; and one niece.
Memorials may be directed to the Alzheimer’s Association or the American Diabetes Association. Condolences may be left online at www.hartquistfuneral.com.
