Velma Mathilda (Landherr) Matheis, 96, of Adams, passed away Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at the Adams Health Care Center.

She was born Dec. 8, 1918, in rural Rose Creek, Marshall Township, to Aloysius and Elizabeth (Huemann) Landherr. She attended school in Johnsburg and then went on to do housework for various families before working a short time at Hormel. She was married to Joseph Nicholas Matheis on June 6, 1944, at St. John’s Catholic Church in Johnsburg, Minnesota, and together they farmed in the Johnsburg area until they retired in 1976, and moved to their new home in Adams. Velma remained in her home following her husband’s death in 2006, until she moved to the Adams Health Care Center Assisted Living apartments in September of 2013. Velma was a cook at St. John’s elementary school for several years and was also a clerk at Freund’s Store in Johnsburg for a number of years, but her greatest joy was being a farm wife and mother to her five children. She did beautiful embroidery work her entire life and loved making quilts for all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Joe; son, Richard; grandson, Ryan Gordon; brothers and sisters-in-law: Wilmer and Evangeline Landherr, Eugene and Nancy Landherr; sisters and brother-in-law: Rosella and Bob Jorgenson, Elizabeth (Betty) Landherr, and Louise Landherr.

Survivors include her children: Gerald and Carol Matheis, Joyce and John Wagner, Shirley and Roger Gordon, and Carol and Terry Kiefer, all of Adams; eleven grandchildren, twenty-one great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild; sister-in-law, Evelyn Matheis of Moorestown, New Jersey; Dorothy Gerber, who was always called her “oldest daughter”; and many nieces and nephews.

A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Adams with Father Swaminatha Pothireddy officiating. Interment will be in the St. John’s Catholic Cemetery in Johnsburg. Visitation will be at the Adams Funeral Home on Tuesday, Dec. 16, from 4 to 7 p.m. with a rosary service at 4 p.m. There will also be visitation at the Adams Funeral Home on Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.