CARL E.  KLINGBORG , 91, of Aurelia, Iowa, passed away Sunday, August 25, 2019 in the Sunrise Manor Retirement Home in Sioux City, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held Friday, August 30 ^th , at 11 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, Iowa. Pastor Kim Dewey will officiate. Burial will be in the Quimby Cemetery with military rites held at the graveside.. There will be a family prayer service at 10:45 a.m. at the church on Friday. Visitation will be on Thursday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. with the family present from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com

Carl was born May 6, 1928 in Silver Township, Cherokee County, Iowa to Ernest and Anna (Carlson) Klingborg. The family moved to Grand Meadow Township in 1931. He attended Grand Meadow Consolidated School until the 9 ^th grade and then moved to Quimby School District graduating in 1946. He helped his parents on the farm for one year and then started working at the Simonsen Mill & Rendering Plant in their office until being drafted into the U.S. Army in November of 1950 for 2 years. After being honorably discharged from the Army, he started farming in 1953. He was married to Charlotte Taggs on January 18, 1965 at Pocahontas, Iowa. They were blessed with two sons; James Arnold and Donald Wayne. He retired from farming in 1989 and moved to Aurelia to a new home that his wife designed and decorated in 1996.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, Iowa, a lifetime member of the Aurelia American Legion. He enjoyed woodworking, traveling and camping when the boys were younger, playing cards, watching the Iowa Hawkeyes on television, going to WinnaVegas Casino, walking and playing bingo at Sunrise Retirement Community.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Charlotte on April 29, 2018, sister Greta Magnussen and her husband Ivar in Sweden, two brothers Oscar Klingborg and his wife Leoma, and Axel Klingborg; four brothers-in-law Ray Fielder, Glen Scott, Eldon Davis, Vernon Strope, and a great grandson Damon Coll.

He is survived by his two sons: James (Sheila) Klingborg of Correctionville, Iowa; Donald (Karre) Klingborg of Sioux City, Iowa; three grandsons and one granddaughter: Trinity (Cati) Klingborg of Linn Grove, Iowa; Robert Klingborg of Correctionville, Iowa; Kyle Erb of Iowa City, Iowa; Amber Ferch of Correctionville, Iowa; three great granddaughteras: Lexie Jellison of Clarence, Iowa; Heaven Harper of Schleswig, Iowa; Carly Spanier of Wisconsin; one great grandson: Nikoli Klingborg of Linn Grove, Iowa; one sister: Elsie Stevenson of Holstein, Iowa; four sisters-in-law: Joyce Fielder of Storm Lake, Iowa; Wilda Scott of Verona, Missouri; Ruth Davis of Storm Lake, Iowa; Estelene Strope of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; special niece Gunnel Magnussen of Vetlanda, Sweden; also many other  nieces, nephews, great nieces, nephews, and many friends around the area, especially at Sunrise Retirement Community.