Erma Louise Sophie Zobel, 91, of West Point, died May 25, 2005 at Majestic Bluffs Assisted Living Center in Yankton, S. D. Services will be 10:30 am. Saturday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in West Point with Reverend Robert Hedtke officiating. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Osteoporosis Foundation or Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be 9:00 am. until 8:30 pm. Friday at Stokely Funeral Home. Those wishing to leave on-line condolences may do so at www.stokelyfuneralhome.com. Erma was born August 2, 1913 in rural Seward County to Henry and Anna Andersen Gieselman. She grew up on the farm there and graduated from Seward High School in 1930. She worked at a jewelry store in Seward and helped on the family farm. On December 31, 1939, she married William A. Zobel, Jr. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Seward. The couple lived in Ohio and Delaware before moving to the farm north east of West Point in 1946. They moved into West Point in 1950. Erma was a member of and active in St. Paul Lutheran Church in West Point, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League and Hospital Auxiliary. She enjoyed flower and vegetable gardening, sewing, and playing cards. In August of 2004 she moved to Yankton. Survivors include daughters Judith Zobel of Wayne, Karin (Marvin D.) Ehlers of Yankton, son Don of Miami, AZ, sister Arline Walford of Seward, grandchildren Christina (Jason) Sternhagen and David Ehlers, and a great grandson Grant Sternhagen. She is preceded in death by her husband, William, sisters Emily Riggert, Alice Sassani, Florence Nieman and Lucille Beck, daughter-in-law Louise Zobel, great grandson Nathan, and 2 infant brothers.