Obituaries
Barbara Kunz
Mar 15, 2013
Barbara Lea Kunz was born to Maynard and Donna (Harris) Firchau on May 21, 1945 in Madelia. She attended and graduated from Madelia High School. On February 1, 1964, Barb was united in marriage to Bernard Kunz in Madelia. The couple was blessed with three children - Tammy, Amy and BJ. Barb was a night cook at The Triangle...
Robert Denn
Mar 13, 2013
Robert was born November 28, 1933 in Madelia to Jacob and Martha (Ganzel) Denn. He completed the first 8 grades at Oliver Country School just a mile and half from his home. He claimed to have graduated from there as the second smartest kid in his class. There were only two. He graduated from Garden City high School in...
Victor Mausling
Mar 10, 2013
Victor was born November 3, 1930 to Carl and Mathilda (Rathke) Mausling Sr. on the farm in South Branch. He helped his father on the farm before joining the US Army. After his honorable discharge on April 27, 1962, he became a master plumber. He worked for Latimer James Plumbing Co. in St. James for some time. In the...
Viola 'Vickie' Selland
Mar 9, 2013
Memorials may be made to: Mayo Clinic for Alzheimer's disease research. Vickie was born in Philadelphia, PA to Austrian immigrants Joseph and Theresa (Lackner) Steiner. Her birthday was on January 13th (in 1920, although she'd have liked no one to know). Seven of her siblings remained in Philly however, Vickie chose a different path and joined the Navy as...
Fern Larson
Mar 8, 2013
Fern was known as Grandma to many. Fern worked as a cook for the Butterfield-Odin School District in the 1960''s and 1980''s. She also worked at the Butterfield Cafe in Butterfield and at Tony Downs Foods in St. James. Fern enjoyed reading, watching television, and making needle art crafts and sharing them with many. She was a fantastic cookie...
Frieda Sellner
Mar 8, 2013
Frieda C. Sellner was born on April 23, 1912 in Sleepy Eye, MN, the daughter of John and Minnie (Seidl) Haala. She grew up and attended school in Sleepy Eye. Frieda married Roman Sellner on June 7, 1932 at St. Mary''s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. From the age of 9 years old to her retirement at the age...
Lucy Hennies
Mar 6, 2013
Lucy was born on April 22, 1937 to Louis Sr. and Frances Kokesh. She was raised in Minnetonka and later attended college at Mankato State, with a degree in Education. She student taught in Madelia and later became a teacher. During this time she met her husband, Kenneth Hennies and they were united in marriage on July 9, 1959....
Margie Nelson
Mar 5, 2013
Margie Ann Stolze was born July 23, 1933 in St. James, MN, the daughter of Elmer and Louise Stolze. Margie grew up on the family farm just outside of St. James. She attended rural school. On April 7, 1951, she was united in marriage to Dale W. Nelson at Camp Rucker, AL, where they lived while Dale was in...
Leo Ludewig
Mar 4, 2013
Leo was born May 29, 1931, in Sleepy Eye, the son of Vitalis and Emma (Treml) Ludewig. He attended school in Mulligan Township. He served in the Army during the Korean Conflict and was stationed in Ulm, Germany, for 18 months. He married Bernice Hillesheim on Nov. 16, 1954, at St. Mary''s Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. He was...
Lorraine Roiger
Mar 4, 2013
Lorraine Angeline Roiger was born on August 28, 1927 in Mulligan Township, Brown County, MN, the daughter of John R. and Anna M. (Sellner) Windschitl. Lorraine married Arnold Joseph Roiger on August 28, 1958 at the Church of the Japanese Martyrs in Leavenworth. They lived and farmed in Albin Township from 1960 to 1992 when Arnold passed away. Lorraine...
Joseph Hacker
Mar 3, 2013
Joe died on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at the Sleepy Eye Medical Center at the age of 54 years. Joseph Clement Hacker was born on July 24, 1958 in Sleepy Eye, MN to Clement and Lucille (Wersal) Hacker. Joe attended St. Michael''s Elementary School and Cedar Mountain High School, before attending Willmar Area Vocational School for Auto Mechanics. He...
Henry Baerg
Feb 28, 2013
Our wonderful husband, brother, and friend, passed into the arms of his loving heavenly Father on Thursday February 28, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Village in Mountain Lake, MN. He had attained the age of 88 years, 7 months, and 12 days. Henry was born July 16, 1924 to Jacob J. and Maria (Penner) Baerg of Butterfield, MN. He...
Victor Christensen
Feb 23, 2013
Victor Walter Christensen, age 94, passed away at the Veteran''s Hospital in Minneapolis on February 23, 2013 as the result of complications from a fractured hip. He was born November 18, 1918 in rural Sleepy Eye to Christian and Emily (Petersen) Christensen. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Matthew''s Church in Evan. He attended country schools in the...
Daniel Conrad
Feb 19, 2013
Daniel Emery Conrad, 58, of Casper, Wyoming, died February 19, 2013, at Wyoming Medical Center. Dan was born January 22, 1955, in Rochester, Minnesota, to Dennis and Evelyn Conrad. Dan graduated from St. Mary's School in Sleepy Eye, MN, in 1973. He then attended the Fluid Power Program at Granite Falls Technical College, graduating in 1975. He worked in...
Ardis Hanson
Feb 19, 2013
Ardis Ingeborg Warling was born May 7, 1917, on the family farm near LaSalle, MN, the daughter of Carl and Anna (Hurtig) Warling. When she was only two years old her mother passed away. She was baptized and confirmed at East Sveadahl Lutheran Church. She attended country school in the LaSalle area, through 8th grade. On February 27, 1941,...
Marvelyn Pedersen
Feb 19, 2013
Marvelyn Viola Pedersen was born on August 14, 1917 in Tyler, MN to Otto and Mary (Matthews) Welsand. The family, including her identical twin sister Marjorie and younger sister Corrine lived on a farm 4 miles east of Arco, MN. Marvelyn graduated from Arco High School in 1935. She was united in marriage to Eigil Pedersen on June 28,...
Karen Pyan
Feb 17, 2013
Karen Fern Trebesch was born on May 20, 1939 in Sleepy Eye, MN to Theodore August and Lena A. (Alt) Trebesch. She attended St. John's Lutheran School through 8th grade and then attended and graduated from Sleepy Eye Public School. Karen attended two years at Mankato Business School. She was diagnosed with polio in 1952. She married Rolland Pyan...
Lena Ewert
Feb 14, 2013
Lena was born to David H. and Agatha (Baerg) Ewert on June 14, 1923 in Mountain Lake. She received her elementary education in District 16C school and completed her high school requirements while attending Tabor Academy in Hillsboro, KS. She studied at Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis, graduating in 1947. Lena worked with MCC as an RN...
Janice Johnson
Feb 14, 2013
Janice Marie (Carter) Johnson Janice was called to rest February 14th, 2013 at the age of 69 in Fairmont, MN, after a hard fought 3 year battle with breast cancer. Janice was born to Leonard and Olga (Graf) Carter in Fairmont, MN on May 8th, 1943. She lived in Fairmont until 1953 upon moving to Windom where she was...
Adeline Nelsen
Feb 12, 2013
Adeline was born on May 23, 1913, the daughter of John and Emelia (Rothmeier) Groebner. She worked for several families as a live in help and for a short time, a waitress at a cafe in Springfield. Mostly, she helped on the Groebner family farm until she was united in marriage to Adolph Nelsen on February 14, 1939 at...
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