Obituaries

Richard Doll

Richard Doll

Dec 15, 2010

Richard A. "Dick" Doll passed away December 15th, 2010 at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Home at the age of 81. He was born in New York Mills, MN on September 28th, 1929. He graduated from high school in Verndale, MN He was in the U. S. Army stationed at Camp Roberts in California. On June 14th, 1952 he married...

Ervin Maxwell

Ervin Maxwell

Dec 15, 2010

Ervin Kenneth Maxwell, age 83, of Sleepy Eye, MN passed away peacefully Dec. 15, 2010 and the Golden Living Center in Franklin, MN. Funeral service will be held Wednesday Dec. 22 at Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye at 1:00 pm. Interment will be at St. Mary's Cemetery in Sleepy Eye. Email condolences may be sent at www.sturmfh.com Arrangements are...

Matthew Turbes

Matthew Turbes

Dec 14, 2010

Matthew Aaron Turbes was born on February 28, 1974 in Sleepy Eye, MN, the son of Stanley Karen (Maanum) Turbes. He attended Sleepy Eye Public School and graduated in 1992, attended Vo-Tech school for auto technician in Jackson for one year and then in Willmar for one year. After school he worked for Herb's Repair in Sleepy Eye for...

Ione Simenson

Ione Simenson

Dec 14, 2010

Ione Simenson, age 89, of St. James, died on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James. Ione Eleanor Mickelson was born in St. James, MN, on September 29, 1921, the daughter of Oscar and Ida May (Barge) Mickelson. Ione grew up in St. James where she graduated from high school in 1939. She...

Marilyn Dull

Marilyn Dull

Dec 14, 2010

Marilyn June Dull was born on August 13, 1948 to Henry and Verna (Wiebe) Rahn in Mountain Lake, MN. She was their second child. She has thirteen siblings, many in the Mountain Lake or the Minneapolis area. She attended Mountain Lake Christian School, Mountain Lake Public School, Liberty University and Grace University. She met Terence G. Dull in Lincoln,...

Anna Rogotzke

Anna Rogotzke

Dec 12, 2010

Anna Lynne Rogotzke was born to this earth on December 12, 2006. She was reborn as a child of God through the Word and waters of baptism on December 31, 2006, and she was born again to eternal life in heaven on her fourth birthday, December 12, 2010. Each day of her short life she brought much joy to...

Doris Sammons

Doris Sammons

Dec 10, 2010

Doris Sammons, age 87, died on Friday, December 10, 2010, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James. Private inurnment services will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana, at a later date. Doris Dreher was born March 23rd, 1923, in Spencer, Indiana to Daniel Dreher and Floe Patrick Dreher. She was the youngest of 5 children. Doris graduated from...

Paul Hintgen

Paul Hintgen

Dec 6, 2010

Visitation will continue one hour before services at the church on Friday. Paul Hintgen died on Monday, December 6, 2010, at the St. James Medical Center in St. James. Paul Francis Hintgen was born in St. James on January 8th, 1945 to Lyle and Mary (Carlson) Hintgen. After graduating from St. James High School in 1963 he moved to...

Barbara Larkin

Barbara Larkin

Dec 4, 2010

Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church on Friday. Barbara Larkin, age 73, of Mankato died at her home on Saturday, December 4, 2010. Barbara Jean Larkin was the fourth of five children born to Anson Beatrice (Thompson) Larkin, on July 14, 1937 in Minneapolis, MN. No one knows a lot about how her early...

Loretta Quiring

Loretta Quiring

Dec 3, 2010

Loretta Frances Quiring was born on December 11, 1917, in Westbrook, MN, the daughter of John and Amelia (Guggesberg) Baumann. She was united in marriage to Laurence Quiring on May 1, 1943 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lamberton, MN. The couple farmed in Highwater Township from 1944 until they retired and moved into Lamberton in 1976. Loretta was...

Marie Sawatzky

Marie Sawatzky

Dec 3, 2010

Marie Sawatzky, age 91, of St. James died on Friday, December 3, 2010, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James. Marie Quiring was born October 1, 1919 at Mt. Lake, MN, the daughter of Bernard and Hattie (Haygood) Quiring. Marie attended rural school while growing up loving and working on the family farm. On May 20, 1938,...

George Zeidler

George Zeidler

Dec 2, 2010

Visitation will be one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday George Zeidler, age 97, of St. James, died on Thursday, December 2, 2010, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James. George Henry Zeidler was born November 4, 1913, to parents John and Mary (Westerman) Zeidler of rural St. James. George was a twin...

Patrick Ladd

Patrick Ladd

Nov 30, 2010

Patrick Henry Arnold Ladd was born on December 9, 1957 in Sleepy Eye, MN, the son of Watson Mary (Remus) Ladd. He grew up in Sleepy Eye and graduated from St. Mary's High School. He served in the U.S. Army for three years, during which he was stationed in South Korea. As of the last three years he was...

Hildagard Forster

Hildagard Forster

Nov 29, 2010

Hildegard Barbara Seidl was born on March 10, 1915 in Sleepy Eye, MN, the daughter of Joseph Katherine (Suess) Seidl. She grew up and attended grade school in Sleepy Eye. She married Raymond J. Forster on November 23, 1939 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. Hildegard worked at AJ Pietrus, Piehl Produce, cleaned house for people and...

Roy Suker

Roy Suker

Nov 29, 2010

Roy William Suker was born on April 2, 1917 in Lakefield, MN, the son of Ben Mayme (Wolf) Suker. Roy married Viola Sandhoefner on July 22, 1942 in New Ulm, MN. Roy lived in Sleepy Eye his entire life, except for three years when he served in Italy and North Africa during World War ll. He loved to cook,...

Althea Stoneberg

Althea Stoneberg

Nov 28, 2010

Althea Mabel Lindstrom, daughter of Carl and Agnes (Topper) Lindstrom, was born January 15, 1917 in Odin Township, MN. She grew up on a farm near Butterfield. On December 20, 1941, she was united in marriage to William Pankratz in Mountain Lake. After their marriage they farmed their entire working years in Butterfield and the Mountain Lake area. William...

Violet Panitzke

Violet Panitzke

Nov 27, 2010

Violet Panitzke was born July 13, 1914, to Peter and Elva (Rosenkranz) Sorensen in West Point, NE. Violet loved to tell stories of her life in the early 1900's. She remembered her family moving to Minnesota when she was 5 years old. They traveled by train, and horse and wagon. Violet's family farmed near Evan, MN and she and...

Elfrieda Torssell

Elfrieda Torssell

Nov 26, 2010

Elfrieda Caroline Torssell was born in Fond du Lac County, WI, the daughter of Edward and Josephine (Steffes) Nickel. She married Neil Torssell on December 28, 1946 in Milwaukee, WI. She has lived in Minneapolis, MN, Tomah, WI, Fort Atkinson, WI, and in 1956 they moved to Sleepy Eye. Elfrieda worked with Neil at Tre-Mar Photography in Sleepy Eye....

Mable Bloemke

Mable Bloemke

Nov 26, 2010

Mable L. Bloemke was born on March 10, 1913 in Willow Creek, MN, the daughter of Albert and Bertha (Beckman) Hoffmann. She grew up in Sanborn where she attended school. She was united in marriage to Henry Bloemke on May 28, 1932 at Zion Lutheran Church in Sanborn. She lived most of her married life on the farm, except...

Loren Gatzlaff

Loren Gatzlaff

Nov 24, 2010

Loren Ervin Gatzlaff was born December 7, 1927, on the family farm in Stately Township the son of Ervin and Adeline (Parr) Gatzlaff. He was united in marriage to Marjorie Buhr on February 19, 1951, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Springfield. Loren farmed his entire life on the family farm before retiring in 1987. He was a member...