Valeta Glow Wells

DeForest, WI: Valeta Glow Wells, 84, of DeForest, Wisconsin, passed away Thursday, September 18, 2025, at Parkside Senior Living in DeForest. A funeral service will be held Friday, September 26, at 1:30 PM at First Community Church of Hope in Doon, Iowa with Pastor Jim Sweers officiating. The service will be recorded and available for viewing at https://www.porterfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/valeta-wells following the service. Burial will follow at Hillside Cemetery of Doon. Porter Funeral Home of Rock Valley, Iowa has been entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

Valeta Glow Wells, affectionately known as Val, Punk, Punky, Velvetta, Valerie, Spitfire, Grandma, Me Ma, and Oma, was born Monday, April 14, 1941, at 4:00 PM in Sibley, Iowa to Peter and Elayne (Kruger) Siebrands. She passed peacefully surrounded by family on Thursday, September 18th, 2025, at Parkside Senior Living in DeForest, Wisconsin. She was united in marriage with Raymond A. Wells on October 9, 1960, and the couple shared nearly 65 loving and happy years together.

She was a school bus driver for the DeForest, Wisconsin School District for 10 years. Val enjoyed wallpapering for homes and businesses. Val also worked in several different office settings. She was an avid crafts maker and china painter.

Val is survived by her husband, Raymond; children Travis (James) Wells, Pueblo West, Colorado, Tanya (Mike) Boling, Concord, North Carolina, and Reid (Carrie) Wells, Oxford, Wisconsin; grandchildren, Shawn O’ Donnell, Lacie (Lane) Lederman, Chase (Courtney) O’ Donnell, Amanda Wells, and Dakota (Erika) Wells; great-grandsons, Luether and Layton Lederman; and brother, Butch Siebrands, Doon, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents, Peter and Elayne Siebrands.