Delores Mae Zollman was born on July 3, 1932 in a rural farm house, northwest Long Island, Kansas to Raymond (Ray) Edward Nyland and Angeline Adriana Van Greuningen Nyland. She was baptized and received full membership in the Christian faith at the Prairie View Reformed Church in Prairie View, Kansas. Delores married Carl John Zollman on July 15, 1952 at the Reformed Church in Prairie View, Kansas, and to this union three daughters were born: Peggy Jo, Connie Jean, and Carla June.

Delores attended Grade School and High School in Prairie View, Kansas where she graduated in the year 1950. She worked at her Uncle Walt's Grocery store when she was in high school. During High School she met her future husband, Carl, at a carnival. After graduation she worked for the telephone office (Southwestern Bell) in Norton, Kansas. She married her high school sweetheart in 1952 and they made their home in rural Phillips County.

Delores was an active member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Stuttgart. She was a busy homemaker and farmer's wife. She made her very popular Grandma Zollman pancakes for the grandkids. She was a self-taught seamstress and made all three wedding dresses for her three daughters including bridesmaid, flower girl dresses, and mother of the bride dresses. She worked at Dorothy's Fabric and The Pin Cushion where she continued to make outfits for her grandchildren and many beautiful outfits for her only granddaughter, Stephenie. She made lovely and endearing quilts for each daughter and each grandchild.

Delores is survived by her husband Carl of the home; her three daughters Peggy (Howard) King of Phillipsburg, Kansas, Connie (Steve) Henderson of Ankeny, Iowa, Carla (Jim) Maneth of Great Bend, Kansas, seven grandchildren; Hadley (Abby) Henderson of Webster City, Iowa, Justin (Erin) King of Overland Park, Kansas, Stephenie (Chris) Johnson of Moorhead, Iowa, Aaron (Jenna) Andrews of Great Bend, Kansas, Jordan King of Austin, Texas, Nathan (Tracey) Andrews of Ellis, Kansas, and Trevor (Michel) Maneth of Gardner, Kansas; fourteen great grandchildren Collin Bailey, Caleb King, Grayson Henderson, Landon Johnson, Nora Andrews, Everett Henderson, Logan King, Lydiah Johnson, Pyper Maneth, Ella King, Ryker Maneth, Presley Henderson, Carter Andrews, and Creed Andrews. She is also survived by one brother; Larry (Sharon) Nyland of Phillipsburg, Kansas, and one sister; Wanda (Wayne) Schneider of Prairie View, Kansas and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; Ray and Angeline Nyland and father and mother-in-law; Karl and Elizabeth (Barbara) Zollmann and sister and brother-in-law;Rex and Martha Kellogg.

As per request by Delores and found in her Bible…

"Death is nothing at all. I have slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiarly name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity of sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed, at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without trace of shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as if ever was, there is an unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.

All is Well. - Canon Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918

Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 27 at 10:00 a.m. in the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stuttgart, with Pastor Joel Hiesterman officiating.  Burial will follow in the Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 9:00 to 9:00 August 25 ^th &  9:00 to 6:00 August 26th.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery Fund.