HURON — Selma M. Laabs, age 94, of Huron, passed away on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at Huron Regional Medical Center.
Her funeral service will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 10, at Riverview United Methodist Church with burial to follow at Restlawn Memory Gardens Cemetery in Huron. Her service will be live-streamed through www.riverview-virgilumc.org.
Visitation, with her family present, will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, April 9, at Welter Funeral Home in Huron. A prayer service will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday night at the funeral home.
Selma M. Johnson was born on February 17, 1927, in Jasper, Minn., to parents Albert and Anna (Hansen) Johnson. She attended District 29 Country School in Brookings County and high school in Jasper, where she lived with her Grandma Hansen, graduating in 1945.
Selma married Harold E. Laabs on Jan. 1, 1946, in Hendricks, Minn. Harold and Selma lived at Clara City, Minn., and White, before moving to Huron in the fall of 1946. In 1963 the couple moved to Carpenter and then moved back to Huron in 2007.
Through the years, Selma worked at various stores and restaurants. She worked at Armours and Co, Hagar’s Produce, Montgomery Ward, Tempo and finally her favorite place, Huron Regional Medical Center for 20 years, from where she retired.
She then began her volunteer years at many places in the Huron community. She volunteered at Huron Nursing Home/SunQuest Heathcare Center with various jobs including training new nurses’ aides. She was a Pink Lady at HRMC for many years and was voted Pink Lady Volunteer of the Year in 2016. Also, in her career she worked at Loopy’s Dollar Store straightening shelves and Burnison’s Plumbing and Heating doing janitorial work.
Selma loved helping people and spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved to teach them to play dominoes and checkers. She loved having friends over for coffee, sharing her cookies, caramel rolls, sending cards to family and friends, and having family and friends just stop in to visit. Many friends were lucky enough to receive a jar of homemade jelly.
Selma and Harold were members of United Methodist Church of Carpenter and Riverview United Methodist Church in Huron.
Grateful for having shared in her life are her two daughters, Bonnie (Douglas) Pribyl and Marilyn (James) Schnetzer, all of Wolsey; six grandchildren, Jennifer (Allen) Pickard, Matthew (Sabrina) Pribyl, Kathy (Matthew) Micheel, Vicki (Randy) Nelson, Joseph (Kelsey) Schnetzer and Teresa (Andrew) Urban; 14 great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn and Tucker Micheel, David and Kassandra Pickard, Selma, Rustin, and Beau Nelson, Jonah and Calab Pribyl, Simon, Kenzy, and Logan Schnetzer, Eva and Oliver Urban.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harold in 2008; and her granddaughter, Karen Rae Schnetzer.
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