Camella Genevieve (Thomton) Nokleby

Camella Nokleby, formerly of Montevideo and Starbuck, died on Sunday, August 5, 2001 at the Glenwood Retirement Village in Glenwood, MN at the age of 87.

Funeral services were conducted on Friday, August 10, 2001 at 10:00 A.M. at Jevnaker Lutheran Church in rural Montevideo with Rev. Gregory Gabriel officiating.  Burial was in the church cemetery.

Camella Genevieve (Thomton) Nokleby was born on May 9, 1914 in Yellow Medicine County, MN to Oscar and Hilda (Wilson) Thomton.  She was baptized and confirmed at Bergen Lutheran Church.  Following the death of her mother when she was 10, a family friend, Aagot Olson,  helped raise her.  On  March 17, 1935 she was united in marriage to Minfred Nokleby at the Hazel Run parsonage.  They farmed in Mandt Township, Chippewa County, MN for many years.  They later lived in California, Arizona and Washington before retiring in 1976 to Starbuck, MN.  They moved to Montevideo in 1989 and in December of 1998 they moved back to Starbuck. She has been a resident of the Glenwood Retirement Village for the past 1 ½ years.  She was a lifelong Lutheran and was currently a member of Jevnaker Lutheran Church. She was active in church women’s groups and enjoyed sewing, crocheting, cooking and had the gift of hospitality.

She is survived by two daughters: Dee Weisel and her husband Paul of Lowry, MN and Helen Berheim and her husband Don of Starbuck, MN;  six grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; two sisters: Hazel Enstad of Alexandria, MN and Peggy Nelson and her husband Melvin of Willmar, MN; one sister-in-law, Latona Thomton of Marshall, MN;  as well as by numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Minfred in 1999; one brother, Clarence Thomton; and an infant sister, Gladys.