Elvera R. Mantifel's Obituary
Known to her family as Mom, Gramma and Gigi, and to her friends as Weya, Elvera Peterson Mantifel had a long list of people in her life who loved her. Elvera Peterson Mantifel entered this world on November 17, 1924 to Frank and Sophie Peterson. She left our world on late in the evening on Sunday, April 11, 2010.
Surviving her husband Bill Mantifel, Elvera lived a full and happy life tending to family matters and caring for her five sons and stepdaughter B Byron, Bob, Greg, Dennis, Doug, and Judy, as well as her many neices and nephews whom she loved like her own.
Elvera lived in Tacoma, Washington most of her life. She moved from North Dakota to Washington State as a young girl and Tacoma is the place she always thought of as "home." After battling health problems for the past three months, Elvera passed peacefully in her sleep with her family bedside during her final moments.
Elvera Peterson Mantifel is survived by her siblings and their spouses, Duane and Martha Peterson, Glenn and Nancy Peterson, Irene Treakle, Wilma Brown and Viola Sinness. She is also survived by her four loving sons and their spouses, one stepdaughter, and one daughter in-law. They are Bob and Susan Wingate, Greg and Jannice Wingate, Dennis and Anna Wingate, Doug and Lori Wingate, Judy and Dennis Cutting, and Cheryl Wingate. As well, she is survived by thirteen grandchildren B Kristen MacDonald, Divia Wingate, Denielle Heany, Michael Wingate, Ashley Wingate-Kestler, Krystal Wingate-Benham, Jason Wingate, Katie Wingate, Nicole Wingate, Ryan Wingate, Shawn Cutting, Stephanie Kyelberg, and Stormie Swanson. She had sixteen great grandchildren B Shelby, Byron, Cambria, Hannah, Nathan, Gavin, Finneas, Alexi, Nevaeh, Olivia (who hadn't yet the honor of meeting one another), Bo, Ty, Brock, Beck, Jackson and Dylan.
Services will be held on Friday, April 16, 2010 at Mountain View Funeral Home at 4100 Steilacoom Blvd. SW in Lakewood, Washington. Services will begin promptly at 11 a.m. There will be a reception immediately following and will be held in the Garden Chapel at Mountain View Funeral Home.
The family prefers you spend your gifts as donations to either the American Heart Association or the Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care.
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