She enjoyed the time she spent with her family and friends and will be dearly missed by all who knew loved her. In 2010, she took her very first plane ride in order to attend a Norwegian Festival (Norsk Hostfest) in Minot, ND. She also enjoyed gardening, cooking, quilting and dancing. Playing music for Darlene was a natural talent since she played it by ear.
She was a member of the Leland Ramblers with her late husband they shared their musical talents for many years throughout North Iowa. Music was a large part of Darlene’s life she played the accordion, guitar, organ and sang. Darlene was a lifetime member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, member of the Red Hat Society, Leland Women’s Study Club and the Sons of Norway. Following retirement, she stayed active with her own sewing business (Darlene’s Country Sew) and as a food sampler at Bill’s Family Foods. Darlene worked for the Winnebago County Extension, Winnebago County Courthouse, GTE Telephone and eventually People’s Natural Gas until her retirement. To this union three sons were born, Bennie, Dennis and Terry. Tweeten on Maat the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Her family moved to rural Forest City in 1942, she graduated from Forest City High School in 1953. Darlene L, Tweeten was born Jin rural Rockwell, Iowa, the daughter of Wallace and Ida (Oppedahl) Torkelson.
Memorials may be directed to the Darlene Tweeten memorial fund in care of the family. Interment will be held in Oakland Cemetery in Forest City. Thursday at Cataldo Schott Funeral Chapel, 505 North Clark St. Visitation will be held from 4:00-7:00 P.M. Funeral services will be held 10:30 A.M., Friday, December 18th at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City with Rev.
Tweeten, 79 of Forest City, died Monday, Decemat St.
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