Sister Ingeborg Blomberg, age 99, of Albert City, Iowa passed away quietly on Saturday, August 23, 2014 at the Pleasant View Home in Albert City following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be Saturday, August 30, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. at the Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Albert City. Burial will follow in the Fairfield Township Cemetery in Albert City. Visitation will take place Friday, August 29, 2014 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at the Sliefert Funeral Home in Albert City. The Sliefert Funeral Home in Albert City is in charge of the arrangements.

Sister Ingeborg Blomberg was born January 13, 1915 to Carl W. and Olga Blomberg on a farm near Albert City, Iowa. She was baptized on February 3, 1915 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. In 1919, the family moved to a farm near Pine City, Minnesota where she received schooling along with her siblings in a small country school. In 1929, the family returned to Albert City, Iowa.

Ingeborg was confirmed at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in 1930. At the age of twelve, Ingeborg expressed her desire and hope to become a nurse and a deaconess someday. In 1934, she graduated from the Albert City High School. She was employed as the Albert City telephone operator for several years. In 1945, she received her nursing degree from Iowa Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Des Moines, Iowa. Two years later, she entered the Immanuel School for Deaconess training. In 1950, she received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Omaha. In June of that same year, she was consecrated as a Lutheran Deaconess to serve the Lutheran Church in Word and Service and as a symbol thereof, received the Deaconess Cross and title of Sister.

In 1951, Ingeborg entered the University of Minnesota Master’s program graduating in June 1953, with a degree in Hospital Administration. She returned to Omaha as the Assistant Hospital Administrator for Immanuel Hospital. In the ensuing years, she fulfilled her duties and responsibilities in administration of the Immanuel Medical Center. Among her responsibilities were organizing and moving the patients to the new facility when the hospital was relocated five miles away. She was also responsible for opening the Child Care center for children of Immanuel employees. On occasion, she filled in for the chaplain giving the morning devotions over the speaker system for the patients. Her service within the diaconate included serving on the Board of Directors of the ELCA Deaconess community and on several committees. As an administrator, she was active in the American Hospital Association, Nebraska Hospital Administrators, and the Omaha Hospital Association. In 1982, she received an Honorary Doctorate degree from Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska. She retired from her position as a vice-president of Immanuel Medical Center in 1987.

Family has always been an important part of Ingeborg’s life. Her extended family was always involved in many special occasions throughout her years in Omaha. Ingeborg enjoyed traveling with friends visiting the Holy Land, Jordan, Germany, Seminar on the sea in the Caribbean, Sweden, Norway, Hawaii, and Alaska. In October 2004, Ingeborg moved back to Albert City and resided at Countryside Living.

Ingeborg will be lovingly remember by her sister, Vivian Wilbur of Albert City, Iowa; many nieces and nephews; cousins, Florence Porath and Melvin Aronson; extended family; and special friends.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Olga; brothers: Art, Emil, Calvin, Kenneth, George, Andrew, Herbert, Richard; sister, Evangeline; nieces, Josephine Stola and Caroline Cannon; nephews, Gregg Blomberg and Gary Blomberg.