Obituaries
Jerome Sellner
Oct 23, 2007
There will be a parish prayer service at 7pm Friday at the funeral home. Jerome J.J. John Sellner was born in Brown County, MN to George F. Julia (Hillesheim) Sellner on March 29, 1929. He attended Country School District #11 until 6th grade and St. Mary's Catholic School. Jerome served in the U.S. Army from 1951-1953 during the Korean...
Esther Nelson
Oct 23, 2007
Esther Pankratz was born August 24, 1923 at the Mt.Lake Hospital to parents John and Helena (Entz) Pankratz. She grew up on the family farm NW of Mt. Lake with 11 brothers and sisters. She attended Country School Dist. 47. She was baptized in 1940 at the Berfelder Church in Mt. Lake, confirmed in 1948 at Trinity Lutheran Church...
Leonard Brown
Oct 21, 2007
Leonard Lloyd Brown was born January 9, 1926, on the family farm near Sanborn, MN, the son of Herman and Louise (Essig) Brown. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in July of 1951 and served in Korea until July of 1953. Leonard was united in marriage to Geraldine Gramentz on March 10, 1954, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church...
Norma January
Oct 20, 2007
Norma Idalia Esparza was born May 31, 1966 at Brownsville, Texas to parents Roberto and Lidia (Arreola) Esparza. Norma grew up in Matamoros, Tams, Mexico. She graduated from high school in Mexico and received her teaching certificate in fashion design at Academia Mexico. She worked as a kindergarten aide in Mexico for a couple years before working as a...
Lila Birkholz
Oct 20, 2007
Lila Agnes Birkholz, daughter of Matt O. and Anna (Blackstad) Evjen was born on November 6, 1913, in Madelia, MN. She was the oldest of three children. Raised on a farm east of LaSalle, she was baptized and confirmed at Lake Hanska Lutheran Church. She graduated from Madelia High School in 1931 and from Mankato Normal School in 1932....
Irene Utz
Oct 18, 2007
She was born January 26, 1914, in Leavenworth Township, Brown County to Joseph and Emma (Hartnick) Krzmarzick. She attended St. Mary's Catholic School and graduated in 1931. She then attended Normal Training at Sleepy Eye Public School, teaching in rural school in Brown County for 6 years. One June 12, 1939, she married Otto G. Utz at St. Mary's...
Frederick Bruckbauer
Oct 14, 2007
Fred was formerly of Madison, WI, he had been a Naples resident the past seven years. He was born in New Ulm, MN the son of Wendelin Delores (Krambeer) Bruckbauer. Fred graduated from St. Marys in 1956. Fred attended the University of Minnesota where he pitched for the Gophers. He later became the first native Minnesotian to pitch for...
Marcella Sorensen
Oct 11, 2007
On October 11, 2007 God welcomed Marcella Eleanor Nelson Sorensen to His home. Funeral services for Marcella, age 91, of Sioux Falls, SD, formerly of Litchfield, MN and St. James, MN will be at 11 AM, on Saturday, October 20 at Augustana Lutheran Church in St. James with Rev. Greg Hall officiating. Her burial will be at Mt. Hope...
Odelia Pihlstrom
Oct 9, 2007
Odelia Dee Catherine Pihlstrom was born February 19, 1926 in Mulligan Township, Brown County, the daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Zwaschka) Helget. She attended school in Mulligan Township, St. Paul Catholic School in Comfrey, and graduated from Good Council Academy in Mankato, MN. Dee worked in Minneapolis following her graduation. On January 16, 1948 she was united in marriage...
Robert Greminger
Oct 8, 2007
Robert Dean Greminger was born December 1, 1942 in Detriot Lakes, MN to parents Wesley and Amanda (Dey) Greminger. Bob grew up in the Moorhead area. He served two years in the Army during the Viet Nam era. Upon completion of his military obligation he moved to Mt. Lake where he worked at Land O Lakes for many years....
Jacob Curry
Oct 5, 2007
Jacob Lee Curry was born March 18, 1991 at Montgomery, Alabama to parents Kenneth and Kimberly (Bean) Curry. Jake grew up in Prattville, AL, where he attended school until 2006 when he moved to St. James where he attended St. James High School. Jake loved to play baseball and go fishing. He also enjoyed hunting both deer and birds...
Marie Clevenger
Oct 3, 2007
Marie Ruth Quiring was born January 12, 1918 on the family farm in Mt. Lake Township, Cottonwood County, Minnesota to parents Rev. H.H. Quiring and his wife Anna (Schultz) Quiring. Marie Ruth attended grades 1-6 at Dist. 65 Country School from 1924 to 1930, she then attended grades 7-9 at Mt. Lake Bible School and grades 10-12 at Mt....
Virginia Berg
Oct 2, 2007
Virginia Angeline Berg was born on January 13, 1941 in Redwood County to George and Elizabeth (Sturm) Hammerschmidt. She was raised in Springfield and attended St. Raphael's Catholic School and Springfield High School. She married Gary Berg of Comfrey in 1959 and the couple had seven daughters. Virginia worked at the Comfrey Hospital for 17 1/2 years, was a...
Ralph Moody
Oct 2, 2007
Ralph Moody, 83, of Sanborn, MN, died Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at his home in Sanborn, MN. Ralph Clarence Moody was born to Ellis and Theresa (Schnobrich) Moody in Stately Township on January 31, 1924. He attended country school and then worked on the family farm. Ralph was confirmed at Christ Lutheran Church in Stately Township on April 10,...
Bonnie Sharp
Sep 30, 2007
She was born in Bertha, MN to Amherst D. Wait and Ellen N. Marsh on January 11, 1943. After moving to Bovey, MN at an early age she attended school and graduated from Grand Rapids Public School. Upon graduation she moved to southern Minnesota where she met and married Robert J. Sharp of Lake Crystal, MN her loving and...
Gilbert Stern
Sep 29, 2007
Gilbert Edward Stern was born August 4, 1921, in Willow Lake Township, Redwood County, the son of Albert and Martha (Rosenau) Stern. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Sanborn. Gil attended Country School #85 and Zion Lutheran Parochial School in Sanborn. He was united in marriage to Levora Hansen of Walnut Grove on October 15,...
Adeline Ubl
Sep 28, 2007
Adeline was born on July 22, 1916 in Wellington Township, Renville County, MN to the late Gustav Ida (Bulau) Grams. Adeline graduated from Fairfax High School in 1934 and then from St. Andrew's Nurse's Training in 1937. She married George W. Ubl on September 5, 1939. Adeline worked as an RN in hospitals, camps, private homes, doctor's offices and...
Eunice Green
Sep 28, 2007
Eunice Ella Green was born on September 8, 1926 in Mt. Lake, MN, the daughter of George and Louise (Marinou) Mohlenbrock. Eunice left home at an early age to work and live in Butterfield, MN. There is where she met George Schmidt and this union was blessed with three children. Following the death of her husband George Eunice married...
Michael Bauer
Sep 28, 2007
Michael, the son of John Hazel (Picker) Bauer was born December 1, 1946 in Sleepy Eye. He grew up and attended school in Sleepy Eye. Mike spent most of his life working at the family business, Sleepy Eye Greenhouse. He also worked at MN Valley Testing Laboratories and the New Ulm Journal. Mike was a member of the Eagles...
Merle Stoneberg
Sep 26, 2007
Merle Wayne Stoneberg, the son of Lawrence and Ada (Quackenbush) Stoneberg was born on May 5, 1919 in Stevens County, MN. He was baptized and later confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Donnelly, MN. Merle grew up in rural Donnelly, where he attended District 67 Country School, and graduated from Alberta High School in 1936. On October 19,...
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