Hazel H. Walberg, age 89 of Annandale died Sunday, December 26, 2010 at the Annandale Care Center.

Funeral Services will be held 1:00 p.m. Thursday, December 30, 2010 at the Dingmann Funeral Care Chapel, Annandale. Pastor David Nelson will officiate and burial will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, Annandale. Friends may call from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday and one hour prior to services Thursday, both at the funeral home.

Hazel Helen Walberg was born November 12, 1921 in Middle River to Arthur and Emma (Alama) Nicka. She was united in marriage to Donald Walberg on September 28, 1940 in Minneapolis. Together, they lived in the Minneapolis and Annandale area until moving permanently to the Annandale area in 1985. Hazel worked as an assembly worker for International Paper Company in Golden Valley for many years.  She loved to create rugs and sell them at craft shows; she did everything from cutting the material to setting up the loom and weaving the rugs. She enjoyed ice fishing and playing cards.

She is survived by her daughter & her daughter's husband, Carol & William Barrett of St. Michael; sisters, Irene Ervasti of Annandale, Delores McPadden of Annandale and Dorothy Kotila of Cokato; sister-in-law, Dorie Nicka; three grandchildren & their spouses, Rochelle & David Rasset, Melissa MacDonald and Amber & Wesley Arnold; and five great grandchildren, Brittany and Tom MacDonald, Hope Lind, and Gabriel and Arwen Arnold. She is preceded in death by her parents, Arthur and Emma; husband, Donald; brothers, Kermit, Harvey, Marshall, Donald and Leonard Nicka; and sisters, Violet Saksa, Gladys Johnson and Darlene Lantto.

Pallbearers will be Jim Kotila, Toby Kotila, Jeff Nicka, John Nicka, Tom Gallagher, Murray Muff and Larry Graunke. Arrangements are entrusted to Dingmann Funeral Care, Annandale.