Hildegard Cecelia Wetzel

December 24, 1915 - June 20, 2011

Hildegard Cecelia Wetzel Hildegard Cecelia Wetzel was born in San Luis Obispo, California to Herman Boehner and Clara Pannier on December 24, 1915. She attended parochial school and graduated from the public high school. She was a member of the national honor society. Like most people of her generation during the great depression, she helped her family earnings by packing oranges. She married Theodore John Wetzel on March 22, 1942 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Orange, California. She moved to the family farm near Sherwood, Oregon. Ted and Hildegard worked together on the farm for nearly forty years. Hildegard enjoyed oil painting, singing in the church choir, and cutting patterns and sewing dresses. Hildegard was preceded in death by her husband Ted and two sisters, Dorthea Mack and Ursula Mundhenk. Surving and left to honor her memory are; her siblings Tusnelda Riley, Arno Boehner, and Alvin Boehner all of Orange, California, and Naomi Loeffler of Minnetonka, Minnesota; children, Nelson Wetzel of Gresham, Cheryl Wetzel of Australia, Lloyd Wetzel of Sherwood, and Glen Wetzel of Sherwood; grandchildren, Annette Wetzel Ramirez of Troutdale, Adam Wetzel of Gresham, David Wetzel of Sherwood and Susan Wetzel of Sherwood; and great-grandchildren Liam and Lucas. A memorial service was held at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Sherwood on June 25, 2011. Arrangements in the care of Attrell's Sherwood Funeral Chapel.