Obituaries
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Althier Heller
Aug 15, 2014
Althier Elaine Heller was born May 9, 1927, near Darfur, the daughter of Herman Adella (King) Heller. She grew up in the Darfur area attending school in Butterfield, moving to St. James when she was 16 years old. She was Baptized at St. John's Lutheran in Darfur and Confirmed at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Butterfield and later joining...
Fred Junker
Aug 15, 2014
Fred Ben Junker was born August 19, 1931, the son of Ben Fred Junker and Margaret Korfe Junker. He attended school in District 181 in Comfrey, MN. When Fred was 12 years old, he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior at the Fall Gospel Tabernacle in Delton Township and he dedicated his life to serving the...
Melvin Rose
Aug 14, 2014
Melvin A. Rose was born on June 20, 1927, in Sleepy Eye, MN, the son of Arthur and Lillian (Janisch) Rose. He served in the U. S. Army from October 12, 1945 until his honorable discharge on February 15, 1947. Melvin was united in marriage to Josephine Tauer on June 16, 1956 in Sleepy Eye. He has lived in...
Avis Boston
Aug 14, 2014
Avis Darlene Miller was born on June 28, 1923, at Lake Benton, MN, the daughter of James Grace (Sandage) Miller. Avis grew up in Lake Benton where she graduated from Lake Benton High School in 1941. She continued her education for one year at Normal Teacher training at Ivanhoe and became a country school teacher. Avis had a passion...
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