KEYSTONE - Mildred Rose Vileta Seeck, age 86, died Monday, September 17, 2007 at the Keystone Nursing Care Center in Keystone following an extended illness.
     Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM, Thursday, September 20, 2007 at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel in Keystone with Pastor Norm Bennett officiating.  Interment will be held at the Keystone Cemetery.  Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 7 PM on Wednesday
     Mildred, lovingly known as "Millie", was born May 9, 1921 on a farm south of Elberon to William and Rose (Sikir) Vileta.  On July 24, 1946 she married Wilbert L. Seeck in the Congregational Church parsonage in Belle Plaine.  The couple farmed 5 ½ miles northwest of Keystone on the Seeck farm recognized as an Iowa Century farm in 1991.  They retired to Keystone in 1980 and Wilbert preceded her in death on May 27, 1983.                          
     During War II, Millie worked at Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids including a role as a "Rosie, The Riveter".  She was active in the Merkel-Bockholt American Legion Auxiliary and Kane Homemakers.  She attended Salem United Methodist Church in Van Horne. 
     A talented accordianist and pianist, Millie played with the Fullmer's Accordian Band in the '40s at dances in eastern Iowa and also on the radio.  In later years she volunteered at the Keystone and Belle Plaine Nursing Homes and entertained residents with polkas, waltzes and other music that she played "by ear".  Millie had a "green thumb" and was an avid cat lover.
     Millie is survived by her children, Ellen and Max Culver of Bloomington, IL, Dean and Leanna Seeck of Austin, MN, and Dale and Jennie Seeck of Keystone; her grandchildren, Derrick and Andrea Seeck of Keystone, Dana and Lonnie Schoenmann of Elberon, Dwayne Seeck of Coon Rapids, Kelli and Chad Hill of Colorado Spring, CO, Kristi Seeck and fiancé, Patrick Edmonds of Albertville, MN, and Kati Seeck of Brainerd, MN.  She was also the proud Great Grandmother of Jonathan and James Hill, Lee Schoenmann, Avery King and Delaney Seeck.  Also surviving are brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, John and Joan Seeck and Dutch and Mardean Kromminga of Keystone.
      In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her son, David W. Seeck on July 20, 2001; her brother, Emil Vileta and his wife, Helen; her brother, Milvoy Vileta; her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Lavon and Ralph Selk; her nephew, John Vileta and her niece, Shellie Kromminga.
     Her memory will be treasured by her family, her wonderful friends, great neighbors, and her loving nieces and nephews.