TUPELO – Wylma Rose Ommen, 71, died Friday, May 8, 2009, at the North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A South Dakota native, she was born February 25, 1938, to the late Floyd Cecil Paige and Jennie Carolyn Palmer Paige, and raised by her adopted father Harry Hutten. After attending Lerreto Heights in Denver, Colo., she then went on to graduate from McKennan Hospital School of Nursing in Sioux Falls, S.D. For over 20 years she was employed as a Registered Nurse for the North Mississippi Medical Center. She was a member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church where she loved singing in the choir. She especially enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and her family.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church with Rev. Richard Kreitenstein officiating. Burial will be in Tupelo Memorial Park. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.

Survivors include her mother, Jennie Hutten, of Aberdeen, S.D.; two daughters, Pamela Kay Fancher (Mark Allen) of Mooreville and Patricia Lynn Mueser (Daniel John) of Cashmere, Wash.; two sisters, Kay Remily (Clarence) of Aberdeen, S.D. and Marion Forrester (Loy) of Nebraska; two brothers, Anthony Hutten (Cheryl) of Clayton, N.C. and Richard Hutten (Kathleen) of Charlotte, N.C.; four grandchildren, Martin Fancher (Lisha), Christine Fancher, Ashley Nicole Mueser and Alexander David Mueser; and one great-grandchild, Christian Fancher.

She was preceded in death by her father Floyd Paige; Stepfather, Harry Hutten; her husband, Keith Ommen; and one son, David Eric Ommen.

Pallbearers will be Martin Fancher, Cameron Webb, Caleb Fancher, James Fancher, Alexander Meuser and Glenn Benfield.

Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home and will continue one hour prior to service time on Monday.

Memorials may be to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Tupelo.

Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com