Ursula "Pat" Klatt
Ursula ‘Pat’ Klatt, 94, of Grand Island, died Thursday, March 4, 2010 at Tiffany Square Center.
Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Grand
Island. The Reverend William Pavuk will officiate. Burial will
be in the Grand Island Cemetery.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 4-7 p.m. at All Faiths Funeral Home.
Mrs. Klatt was born May 14, 1915 at Wakefield, NE the daughter of Herman and Meta (Utemark) Wriedt.
Survivors are a niece Wanda Barrett Larson of Grand Island that helped care for her and nine other nieces and nephews, her brother-in-law’s family from Hastings and special friends Darla and Merle Galvan of Grand Island.
Her husband Stewart, parents, three brothers and two sisters welcomed her into heaven.
Ursula attended elementary school at District 83 in Dixon County. She graduated from Emerson High School in 1932 at Emerson, NE. Her further education was completed at Wayne State College, University of Kearney and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She married Stewart Klatt on June 17, 1947 at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Emerson. The couple resided at South Sioux City until June 1949, at which time they moved to Grand Island.
Mrs. Klatt was a 40-year career teacher in the Nebraska Public Schools. Her teaching years were in high schools at Hildreth and Dakota City where she also served as principal. She was at Walnut Junior High School for 27 years as a teacher of English and Journalism and advisor for the school publication, the WALNUT CRACKER.
Mrs. Klatt was a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church at Emerson where she received her lifetime membership in ELCA, St. Mark’s in South Sioux City and St. Pauls in Grand Island.
Included among her memberships are teachers’ honorary, Delta Kappa Gamma, National Association of Teachers, Nebraska Education Association, and the local GIEA, in which she served on numerous committees. Ursula had a great love for playing the organ.
In lieu of flowers, memorials
are suggested to St. Pauls Lutheran Church, the Ursula Klatt Scholarship
at Wayne State or donor’s choice.