Funeral services for Vida B. Tukua will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, August 29, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Richland. The Reverend Charles Espe will officiate. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will take place at St. Peter’s Cemetery, New Richland. Friedrich Funeral Home, New Richland is in charge of arrangements
Vida passed away on August 6, 2014 at A & D Residential Care, in Antioch, CA. She was 93 years old.
Vida was born on August 9, 1920 to Peter and Bertha (Siffing) Hansen in New Richland. Vida grew up in New Richland, and graduated high school in 1938. Following her schooling, she moved to follow Gilman Tukua to California where he was stationed before the war. The couple married on June 8, 1942, in Carson City, NV. When her husband returned from the war, they moved to different areas of the country, until returning back to California.
She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, in New Richland, St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Garden Grove, CA and Red Hill Lutheran Church in Tustin, CA. Religion was very important to Vida. Vida was a stay-at-home mother, taking care of her two sons. She always greeted the boys after school with a fresh batch of cookies, kept the house very clean, and always took her family to church on Sunday’s. Family was the most important thing to Vida. She was very close to her siblings while she was growing up, and was a wonderful mother and grandmother to all of her family.Vida is preceded in death by her husband, Gilman; parents, Peter (Bertha) Hansen; siblings, Orvin, Clayton, and LuDell Hansen; and grandparents, Christian (Mary) Hansen and Henry (Hattie) Siffing.
She is survived by her two sons, Jule (Jerri) Tukua, and Dennis (Karen) Tukua; grandchildren, Aaron Tukua, Sarah Price, Rebecca Tukua and John David Ryan; great-grandchildren, Anna Marie Price and Kylie Brooke Ryan; as well as many other loving relatives and friends.