Sheila Sliefert

Sheila Elaine Sliefert was born June 14, 1943, the daughter of Ejner and E. Maxine Andersen Grau. She passed away, Tuesday, December 17, 2013, at the Dunlap Nursing and Rehab Center in Dunlap, Iowa, at the age of 70.
Sheila was born in Storm Lake, Iowa. She was baptized on August 8, 1943, and confirmed on May 26, 1957, at Nain Lutheran Church in Newell, Iowa. Sheila received her elementary education in the Providence Consolidated Schools and graduated from Newell-Providence Community High School in 1961. Sheila attended Grand View Junior College in Des Moines for one year and then earned her Associates Degree from Western Iowa Tech and Des Moines Area Community College.
After high school, Sheila worked at Commercial Bank in Storm Lake, Iowa, for one year. She was united in marriage to Gaylord Sliefert on April 20, 1963, at Nain Lutheran Church and the couple lived in Storm Lake, Iowa before moving to Miles, Iowa where Sheila worked at the Victor Record Newspaper part time. The couple was blessed with the birth of three children. They moved to Titonka, Iowa, then moved to Charter Oak, Iowa, and Sheila worked at S & S and started at Wesco Industries in Denison on February 7, 1977. She worked her way up at Wesco to Director of housing until her retirement in 2001.
Sheila was a very social person and an active member of the United Methodist Church in Dow City, Iowa, where she served as Lay Leader, Board Chairman, Worship Chairman, Organist, Soloist, Certified Lay Speaker, and Sunday School teacher. Sheila was very professional when it came to music. She enjoyed crafts, crocheting, and reading about a very wide variety of subjects. Shopping for jewelry was another favorite activity Sheila enjoyed in her spare time. After their retirement, Sheila and Gaylord were able to travel extensively, visiting most of the U.S. states, Spain, Alaska, Portugal, Mexico and the Carribean.
Sheila was preceded in death by her parents and one daughter-in-law, Amy Sliefert. Survivors include her husband, Gaylord of Dow City; her three children: Michael Sliefert of Bellevue, Nebraska; Lorie Sliefert of Friend, Nebraska; and Dawn Malloch of Omaha, Nebraska; two granddaughters, Amanda and Alaina Sliefert of Bellevue, Nebraska; other relatives and friends.