The funeral service for Earline Ness, of rural Albert Lea, will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday at First Lutheran Church in Albert Lea.

The Rev. Dan Baker will officiate. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery.

Friends may visit with family one hour before services at the church.

Earline died on Sunday, March 11, 2007, at Albert Lea Medical Center.

She was 88.

She was born on Oct. 2, 1918, in Garden City, the daughter of William and Louisa (Schickling) Rollings. Willard and Earline would have celebrated 65 years together this year.

Following their marriage they made their home in rural Albert Lea where they had still been residing.

Earline spent her years raising her three girls.

She was a member of First Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her husband Willard; three daughters: Judy and husband Jim Cederberg of Northfield, Linda Ness and husband Munir Cochinwala of Basking Ridge, N.J., Virginia &8220;Ginny&8221; and

husband Larry Larson of Albert Lea; and grandchildren: Anna (Nate) Heard, Rachel Cederberg, Manette and Tarra Ness-Cochinwala and Garrett and Nicole Larson.