Mildred "Midge" Kelber

Mildred “Midge” Kelber, 87, was “absent from the body and present with the Lord, 2nd Cor. 5:8”, on Saturday, November 11, 2006 at Mercy Capitol Hospital. Funeral services will be held by Hamilton’s Funeral Home on Lyon, at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 15, 2006 with burial at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be at Hamilon’s on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 from 4:00 P.M. on.
She was born to Othel A. Green, Sr. and Rose (Moll) Green on November 8, 1919. As a small child she was baptized at Grandview Baptist Church where she was a chartered member.
At “20” she married her first husband Robert L. “Bob” Sommars, I, they had five children. She later married her second husband, Francis D. “Bud” Kelber. One child was born to their union.
Midge could sew like an expert. She made her children many outfits, coats and costumes. She never used a pattern and didn’t own a sewing machine during those years, she sewed by hand. Her pieces were beautiful and looked very professional. She was an excellent cook and baker, again to her credit, she never followed a recipe.
She never learned to swim but she loved to fish from a boat. Her and Bud enjoyed many camping trips with their friends. Midge had many friends of all ages and leaves wonderful memories to all who loved her. Her most recent being the staff at Mercy Capitol, where she was a patient for over two years and received over and above supreme care and Midge developed deep affection for the personal kindness they always extended to her.
She was preceded in death by her parents, all of her siblings, four sisters: June Green, Dorothy Newton, Fern Leininger and Mary Jane Iacovette, three brothers: Othel “Oats” Greene, Jr., Richard “Dick” Greene and Kenneth Greene, her husbands, her son, Ted R. Sommars, and her great granddaughter, Paige Renee Barnes.
She is survived by daughters, Sharon L. Barnes and Rochelle S. “Shelly” Clark of Des Moines, Ia., sons, Robert L. “Bob” Sommars, II, Tim Sommars of Des Moines, Ia., and Jeri L. Sommars of Ankeny, Ia., step sons, Roger Kelber of Albion, Ia. and Ronnie Kelber of White Bear Lake, Minn., twenty three grandchildren and thirty three great grandchildren.

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