Vera Nobiling

Vera Velma (Pacholke) Nobiling, age 89, passed away at the Hiawatha Care Center, Hiawatha, Iowa on September 26, 2010. Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll with Rev. Richard Francis of the United Church of Westside officiating. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 9:00 A.M. on Thursday until the time of service. Burial will be in the Westside Cemetery. Organist for the service will be Mrs. Ellen Severin. Casket bearers will be Eric Elben, Grant Nobiling, Mark Nobiling, and Robert Rickers. Born on September 25, 1921, in rural Westside, Iowa, she was the daughter of Emma (Dahlke) and Frank Pacholke. She grew up in Westside, Iowa, was baptized and confirmed in the Evangelical faith and graduated from Westside High School in 1939. Vera was married to William Vernon Nobiling on January 22, 1944. While William served in the U.S. Army during World War II, Vera worked in the Pentagon, Washington, DC. When married, they returned home and farmed east of Arcadia until 1979 when they moved to town. In 1970, she worked as a certified nursing assistant at the Carroll Health Center, Carroll, Iowa. Upon retirement from the health center in 1985, Vera worked as an in-home care worker for elderly people in her community until 1989. Vera remained in Arcadia until relocating to Osceola, Iowa, in 2004. In 2008, Vera moved to the Hiawatha Care Center. Vera is survived by her children: Jerry Nobiling and his wife, Shelley, of Jesup, Iowa, and Jane (Nobiling) Elben and her husband, Joel, of Indianola, Iowa; three grandchildren: Jaime (Nobiling) Troyer and her husband, Kyle, of Independence, Iowa; Grant Nobiling of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Eric Elben of Des Moines, Iowa; and three great-grandchildren: Cameron, Ava, and Madelyn Troyer. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Edith Pacholke of Illinois. Vera was preceded in death by her husband, William Vernon Nobiling in 1985; her parents Emma and Frank Pacholke; her brothers: Kermit and Frank Pacholke; and her sisters: Lydia Dieselhorst and husband, Louis; Alma Rickers and her husband, Raymond; Agnes Nissen and her husband, Marvin; and Dorothy Schluter and her husdand, Edward.