Obituaries

Roman Roiger

Roman Roiger

Jun 29, 2019

Roman George Roiger was born May 17, 1922, in Bashaw Township on the Roiger homestead, son of John and Anna (Saffert) Roiger. He attended school at District 59 in Bashaw Township and two years at St. Raphael's in Springfield. He helped his father with the family farm. On May 17, 1943, he married Marjorie Fiedler at St. Mary's Catholic...

Evelyn Johnson

Evelyn Johnson

Jun 29, 2019

Evelyn Theona Hagen was born January 6, 1923, in Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, the daughter of Thom and Emma (Hagen) Hagen. She was baptized and confirmed at Albion Lutheran Church. She attended Country School Dist. 47, Brown Co. and graduated from St. James High School. She attended business school in Minneapolis. She worked at Cargill in Minneapolis for...

Wayne Cyril Hillesheim

Wayne Cyril Hillesheim

Jun 28, 2019

Wayne Cryil Hillesheim was born on October 3, 1942 in Sleepy Eye, MN to Clarence J. & Irene (Sherman) Hillesheim. He grew up in Sleepy Eye and graduated from St. Mary's High School. After graduation he entered the U.S. Navy and served for 20 years. Wayne attended vocational school for electrical training and appliance repair. He worked several jobs...

Myrtle Schultz

Myrtle Schultz

Jun 26, 2019

Myrtle Justina Fast was born on February 22, 1920 in the family barn in Carson Township, Cottonwood County, MN to John and Justina (Klassen) Fast. She attended country school through the 8th grade and then took a year off. She graduated from Mountain Lake High School in 1940 where she played in the band for the 1939 state basketball...

Martin Neid

Martin Neid

Jun 26, 2019

Marty was born on January 4, 1940 to Reinhold and Appolonia (Haala) Neid in Leavenworth, MN. Marty was united in marriage to Rita Pelzel in 1958, in Sleepy Eye. Marty and Rita spent the first years of their marriage running the family farm outside of Leavenworth, and raising their 5 children. Marty later went on to start up his...

Mildred Luebeck

Mildred Luebeck

Jun 25, 2019

Mildred Marie Luebeck peacefully passed away June 25 in Mountain Lake, MN surrounded by her family. Born to Nicholas and Mary (Meyer) Pete in Cordova Township, September 19, 1925, she resided in Mountain Lake for the past 26 years. A dedicated housewife and mother she was preceded in death by her husband Richard (Dick) Luebeck, her daughters Nancy Foster...

Lucille Marie Simonsen

Lucille Marie Simonsen

Jun 24, 2019

Lucille was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Lang) Soukup. She attended country school in Stark Township and also St. Mary's School in Sleepy Eye. She worked on the family farm with her parents helping with chores, fieldwork and caring for her nieces and nephews. She met her husband Maurice and married on June 1, 1950 at St. Mary's...

Kenneth Alan Case

Kenneth Alan Case

Jun 23, 2019

Kenneth Alan Case was born on April 25, 1951 in Sleepy Eye, MN the son of Wayne and Ethel V. (Paschke) Case. He married Betty Jean Gates on July 10, 1999 in Olivia, MN. Kenneth worked for 14 years in housekeeping at Jackpot Junction Casino in Morton, MN prior to having a stroke. He lived most of his life...

George Haler

George Haler

Jun 23, 2019

Marion George Haler son of Edward and Marie (Ries) Haler was born in St. James on August 31, 1934. He was baptized and confirmed at St. James Catholic Church in St. James. He attended Catholic and rural school and graduated from Butterfield High School in 1952. George was united in marriage to Sandra Froehling on September 27, 1959 at...

Roxane Schaffer

Roxane Schaffer

Jun 23, 2019

Roxane "Roxi" Lee Schaffer was born on December 20, 1956, in Winnebago, MN to Duane & Edna (Klyndle) Howe. She attended and graduated from school in Winnebago. She then spent her years training horses. She moved to Fairmont, MN and married David Schaffer. After David passed away Roxi moved to Sleepy Eye where she remained and managed the Family...

Ardelle Mavis Neufeld

Ardelle Mavis Neufeld

Jun 20, 2019

She was born Ardelle Mavis Loof on January 2, 1932, the daughter of Joe and Gertrude (Johnson) Loof. She was brought home from the hospital by horse-drawn wagon due to snow-covered country roads (and surprisingly was not the first baby born in Bethel Hospital in Mountain Lake that year). She was baptized as a baby in the former Christian...

Rodney Goertzen

Rodney Goertzen

Jun 19, 2019

Rodney Goertzen age 76, of Mountain Lake, Minnesota died on June 19, 2019, at Good Samaritan Village in Mountain Lake, MN. There will be no services. Arrangements are with the Sturm Funeral Home in Mtn. Lake, Minnesota. On line condolences may be left for the family at www.sturmfh.com.

Elden Dammann

Elden Dammann

Jun 17, 2019

Elden Dammann, age 88 of Springfield and formerly of Sanborn died on Monday, June 17, 2019, at St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield, MN. Elden was born on the family farm by Sanborn on July 7, 1930, to Herman and Mary (Radtke) Dammann, the 5th of 6 children. He served with the U.S. Marine Corp doing his basic training...

Lee Stern

Lee Stern

Jun 15, 2019

The Lord welcomed Lee Stern home to heaven on June 15, 2019. He died peacefully surrounded by his family at Oak Hills hospice care in New Ulm, MN. Lee Frederick Stern was born September 17, 1951, to Ewald and Alma (Pabst) Stern, in Springfield Minnesota. Lee attended Springfield Elementary School and Sanborn High School where he graduated in 1969....

Elsie Froslan

Elsie Froslan

Jun 15, 2019

Elsie Alvera Froslan, of Keller, TX passed away peacefully with family by her side on June 15, 2019. Elsie was born on August 19, 1921 in South Branch Township, MN, to Berdines and Minnie Knudson. Elsie met and married Adler Fjone in Montana, where she loved living on their farm. Together, they had one daughter, Harriet. Elsie was widowed...

Orlando "Lindy" Meyer

Orlando "Lindy" Meyer

Jun 11, 2019

Orlando "Lindy" Paul Meyer was born on December 1, 1925, in Moltke Township in Sibley County, MN, son of Paul W. and Rebecca (Melhop) Meyer. He grew attended St. Peters School in Moltke Township outside Gibbon, MN. He was drafted and served in the US Navy until the end of WWII. Following five years of working on wheat and...

Walter Harder

Walter Harder

Jun 10, 2019

Walter Peter Harder age 89, of Oak Park Heights, formerly of Mountain Lake, Minnesota died on June 10, 2019, at Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, Minnesota. Service with First Mennonite Church will be held at the Bethel Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, Minnesota, on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 10:30 am. Interment will be at the Mountain Lake City Cemetery in...

Rose M. Fromm

Rose M. Fromm

Jun 10, 2019

Rose M. Fromm, age 76, of rural Sleepy Eye, MN died on June 10, 2019, at her home. Visitation will be on Sunday from 3 to 8 pm and Monday from 7:30 to 10am at the Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye. There will be a Rosary at 3:00pm followed by Parish Prayer Service Sunday at the funeral home. Funeral...

Nicole Marie 'Nikki' Rodriguez

Nicole Marie 'Nikki' Rodriguez

Jun 4, 2019

Nicole Marie "Nikki" Forstner was born to Kenneth and Gina (Carey) Forstner on August 26, 1979 in Madelia. She was a graduate of Madelia High School in 1997. After High School, Nikki was employed as a caregiver at Woodstone Senior Living in New Ulm, MN. She was married in 2003 and had children, Payge, Brayden and Jordyn. She loved...

Pearl Haglund

Pearl Haglund

Jun 3, 2019

Pearl Frances Rettke was born to Henry Rettke and Elsie (Sanders) Rettke in St. James Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota, on March 11, 1924. She was the fourth of five children and the last surviving sibling. She had a difficult life, as at age fourteen her mom passed away and she became mother to her five-year-old brother. At age eighteen...