Funeral services for Evelyn M. Matthies of Albert Lea will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zion Lutheran Church of Albert Lea. Rev. Paul Aldrich will officiate. Visitation will be held Monday from 5-7 p.m. at the Bonnerup Funeral Service, and one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery, Albert Lea.

Matthies passed away suddenly at her home in Albert Lea on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. She was 87 years of age.

Evelyn was born April 28, 1915 the daughter of Emil L. and Emma L. (Nehring) Matthies, in Buena Vista County, Grant Township, Storm Lake, Iowa. She was baptized on May 23, 1915 at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Storm Lake. She attended parochial and public schools in Iowa until 1928.

Evelyn and her family moved to Minneapolis that year. In Minneapolis she also attended parochial and public schools and was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church. She was then confirmed on March 24 1929 at Immanuel Lutheran.

She was a hairdresser for 15 years and later worked as a hotel clerk in Minneapolis. Evelyn moved to Albert Lea in 1952 to care for her ailing mother. Following her mother’s death, she tended the home for her father until his death in 1970. She worked at the First National Bank which later became Norwest Bank, and is now Wells Fargo Bank. She served the bank in several capacities and retired in 1980.

While living in Albert Lea, she was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, Mary Circle, Wa-Tan-Ye service club and the Thirty-Thirty Bowling League. She was treasurer at one time for the Albert Lea Women’s Bowling Association.

Evelyn is survived by her brother Ervin and his wife Lois Matthies of Albert Lea, two nieces Bonnie Borchert Kuechenmeister of Walla Walla, Wash., and Emily Larson of Newark, Ohio. One nephew Kenneth Borchert of Duluth, Minn. She is also survived by two great nieces and four great nephews.

Evelyn was preceded in death by her parents and one sister Elvira D. Borchert.

She will be missed by her family and many friends.

Ephesians 2:8 ” For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God”