Obituaries

Martha Baerg

Martha Baerg

Sep 10, 2014

Martha (Classen) Baerg was born on February 3, 1926 to Abe L. and Agnes (Bartel) Classen in Meade, KS. She was the oldest of 9 children. She passed into the arms of her loving Heavenly Father on September 10, 2014 at the Good Samaritan Village in Mountain Lake, MN at the age of 88 years, 7 months and 7...

Marian Fischer

Marian Fischer

Sep 9, 2014

Marian E. Portner Fischer passed away on September 9, 2014 at Divine Providence Community Home in Sleepy Eye with her family by her side. Marian E. (Portner) Fischer was born on May 12, 1929 in Brown County, MN at home to Theodore and Eleanor (Waibel) Portner. Marian married Ervin Fischer on June 6, 1950 at Cathedral of the Holy...

Eldon Ekstrom

Eldon Ekstrom

Sep 7, 2014

Eldon Ray Ekstrom was born in St. James, MN, on March 17, 1931, the son of Algort and Helen (Youngdale) Ekstrom. He was baptized at East Sveadahl Lutheran Church on April 15, 1931, confirmed on May 20, 1945 at East Sveadahl. Eldon graduated from St. James High School in 1949. He then attended the University of Minnesota School of...

Krista Gode

Krista Gode

Sep 7, 2014

On Sunday, September 7, 2014, Krista Lyn Gode, 29 of Sanborn joined the other angels in Heaven. Krista was born in Springfield, MN on October 16, 1984 to Jim and Monica (Schueller) Gode. She graduated from Red Rock Central in 2004. Krista enjoyed watching movies, bowling and working in her activity books. If Krista ever gave you a pat...

Roy Jacobsen

Roy Jacobsen

Sep 4, 2014

Roy Albert Jacobsen was born on September 27, 1917 in Eden Township, the son of Hans and Stella (Johnson) Jacobsen. Roy graduated from Sleepy Eye Public High School in 1936. Roy farmed the family farm near Evan all his life and in 1965 started working for Kraft Foods in New Ulm part time. He continued to work for Kraft...

Sally Carlson

Sally Carlson

Sep 3, 2014

Sally Marguerite Carlson was born on January 26, 1934 to Clifford and Esther(Swenson) Patterson in Hibbing, MN . She attended Hibbing Public Schools graduating in 1952. Sally attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a degree in Journalism in 1956. It was there she met her husband, John "Jack" Carlson and the two were married July 7, 1956....

Randall Berkner

Randall Berkner

Sep 2, 2014

Randall John Berkner, 89, of Sleepy Eye, MN died Tuesday, September 2, at the Divine Providence Community Home in Sleepy Eye. Randall (Randy) was born on March 5,1925 in Osakis, MN to Harold and Catherine (Huiras) Berkner. As a small child, the family moved to Sleepy Eye where his father started a family farm. He attended St. Mary's Catholic...

James Schultz

James Schultz

Sep 1, 2014

James D. Schultz passed away at home on September 1, 2014 after a brief battle with cancer. He was born on September 17, 1933 in Mt. Lake, MN, the son of David I. and Marie (Heide) Schultz. He graduated from Mt. Lake High School in 1951. After graduation he moved to St. Paul where he attended St. Paul Bible...

Babette Marks

Babette Marks

Aug 29, 2014

Babette Nadine Marks was born on August 5, 1960 in Redwood Falls, MN to Gerald and Oradell (Haenze) Fischer. After graduating in 1979 she moved to Hutchinson, MN and worked at Burns Manor, Nash Finch for 18 years and WalMart until her health failed. She liked to play bingo, loved animals, especially her cat Archie and collected Winnie the...

Verna Armbruster

Verna Armbruster

Aug 28, 2014

Born in Sanborn, Minnesota on June 21, 1922, Verna Amanda (Leopold) Armbruster was the 7th of 9 children of John and Hulda (Ringle)Leopold. She graduated from Sanborn High School in 1939. She passed away peacefully at Divine Providence Nursing Home in Sleepy Eye on August 28, 2014. She married Floyd Armbruster in New Ulm on June 7, 1942. Floyd...

Donald Radel

Donald Radel

Aug 28, 2014

Donald Paul Radel, age 89, of Evan, MN, died Thursday, August 28, 2014, at Autumn Grace Senior Living in Mankato, MN. Don was born on March 25, 1925 in New Ulm, MN, the son of Paul and Elma (Neumann) Radel and grew up in rural Sanborn, MN. He served as a World War II combat soldier in Europe and...

Claire Seibert

Claire Seibert

Aug 27, 2014

Claire Russell Seibert, son of Charles and Pearl Seibert, was born June 10, 1917 in Kanawha, Iowa. In 1919 the Seibert family moved to Madelia. He graduated from high school in Madelia, and had one year of accounting at Mankato Commercial College. He worked for Lockheed in Burbank, CA, before enlisting in the Air Corps on Aug. 13, 1942....

Olga Fast

Olga Fast

Aug 27, 2014

Olga Anna Sawatzky Fast, age 95, was born on November 7, 1918 in St. James, MN to Cornelius Susan A. (Enns) Sawatzky. Olga and her husband Alvin served as missionaries in Cuba for 15 years, in Venezuela for 25 years and finally in Hialeah, FL for 15 years in church planting and prison ministry. They retired in 2001 to...

Dorothea Tomschin

Dorothea Tomschin

Aug 25, 2014

Dorothea DeJean Tomschin was born May 25, 1927, in St. Paul, MN, the daughter of John and Ruby (Morrau) Miller. She graduated from Humboldt High School and then attended nursing school at Mounds Park and Midway Hospital. Dorthea received her Registered Nurses degree in 1948. On September 25, 1948 she was united in marriage to Clarence Tomschin in St....

Irene Seifert

Irene Seifert

Aug 23, 2014

Irene Bertha Seifert was born on March 8th, 1922 in Sleepy Eye, MN the daughter of John and Philemina (Heller) Sellner. She attended St. Mary's School in Sleepy Eye. Irene married Sylvester Seifert on October 28, 1947 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. They made their home on a farm East of Evan of 48 years, moving...

Angeline Pankratz

Angeline Pankratz

Aug 22, 2014

Angeline Pankratz was born August 24, 1927, to Hubert and Teresa (Windschitl) Kotten in Brookville Township, Redwood County, MN. She graduated from St. Raphael Catholic School and Springfield High School. She was employed as a reporter and bookkeeper at the Advance Press prior to her marriage to Henry Pankratz on February 14, 1950. They celebrated their golden anniversary in...

Jesus Vidales-Ramirez

Jesus Vidales-Ramirez

Aug 22, 2014

Service Information 12:00 pm Saturday, August 30, 2014 Sturm Funeral Home, St. James Chapel 906 - 10th Ave. S. St. James, Minnesota, United States 56081

Celestine Sieve 'Sally' Maiers

Celestine Sieve 'Sally' Maiers

Aug 19, 2014

Sally (Celestine) Sieve Maiers was born on November 23, 1917 in Iona, MN to Mathias Theresa (Wermerskirchen) Entinger. She grew up on a farm in Iona Township. After graduating from St. Columbia High School in 1936, she attended Brady Rogers Beauty College in Minneapolis; where she worked for a time. On June 23, 1941 she married Paul Sieve in...

Linus Krzmarzick

Linus Krzmarzick

Aug 18, 2014

Linus G. Krzmarzick, 93, of Sleepy Eye died peacefully surrounded by family on Monday, August 18, 2014 at Divine Providence Community Home in Sleepy Eye. Linus George Krzmarzick was born May 11, 1921 in Prairieville Township to Joseph and Emma (Hartneck) Krzmarzick. He attended school District #36 and St. Mary's school in Sleepy Eye. On October 21, 1942, Linus...

Doris Helleloid

Doris Helleloid

Aug 17, 2014

Doris May (McCracken) Helleloid was born on July 24, 1921, in Hibbing, MN. During elementary school she lived in North Carolina when her father was a professor at Guilford College. They later moved to Minneapolis where she graduated from Washburn High School and earned a bachelor's degree in Home Economics from the University of Minnesota. She took a teaching...