Obituaries
Edna Baker
Jan 7, 2009
Edna was born February 10, 1915 in La Salle County Illinois to Lydia (Roeder) Baker and Edwin B. Baker. At the age of four she moved to Minnesota with her parents. They lived on a farm just north of Marna, Minnesota. She went to a rural school for eight years, attended Blue Earth High School and graduated in 1933. In...
Dale Coy
Dec 29, 2008
Dale was born September 13, 1948, in Waseca, MN, the son of Lester and Mary (Barnick) Coy. He was raised and educated in the Elmore and Lakota, Iowa areas where he was a 1966 graduate of Lakota High School. He graduated with a degree in Agricultural Business from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa before serving in the U.S. Army....
Janice Anderson
Dec 28, 2008
January was born February 10, 1937, in Elmore, MN, the daughter of Albert and Elsie (Ahrens) Ehrich. She was raised and educated in Elmore where she was a 1955 graduate of Elmore High School. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Johns Lutheran Church rural Elmore. January was married to Fred FrogAnderson on April 28, 1956 at St. Johns Lutheran...
Mary E. Richter
Dec 26, 2008
Mary Ellen Adams Richter was born on March 16, 1912 in Algona, Iowa to William Wallace Adams and Mary Elizabeth Dutton Adams. She graduated from the Algona Normal Training class of 1930. In the fall of that year she moved to Springfield township in Kossuth County, Iowa where she taught rural school for two years. While teaching school, she met...
Astrid M. Ahrens
Dec 22, 2008
She was born December 10, 1915, the daughter of Jens and Louise (Fredrickson) Knoff, at Sims, North Dakota and grew up on a farm near Grafton, North Dakota. She graduated from Concordia College in Moorehead, MN and received her Masters Degree from Mankato State . She taught home economics and many other courses in her long teaching career. She taught...
Alice D. Franke
Dec 22, 2008
Alice was born June 3, 1915, in Blue Earth, the daughter of Fred and Lillian (Sommerfield) Oelke. She was raised and educated in Blue Earth where she graduated from high school in 1933. She attended cosmetology college and became a cosmetologist in Blue Earth. She was a longtime member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth where she was...
Gerald N. Hougen
Dec 11, 2008
He was born December 24, 1929, in Emmons, MN the son of Otis and Mildred (Peterson) Hougen. He was raised and educated on the family farm west of Blue Earth, where he continued to farm all his life. He served in the U.S. Army and was married to Jean A. Holmseth on July 9, 1955 at South Blue Earth Lutheran...
Eugene Hacklander
Dec 10, 2008
Gene was born April 3, 1935, in Blue Earth, the son Carrol and Ada (Osmundson) Hacklander. He was raised and educated in the farming community in Blue Earth where he was a 1953 graduate of Blue Earth High School. He graduated with a degree in Agriculture from the University of Minnesota and farmed near Blue Earth for many years. He...
Viola Berndt
Dec 7, 2008
Viola was born May 6, 1924, in Elmore, the daughter of Albert and Elsie (Ahrens) Ehrich. She was raised and educated in the Elmore area where she was valedictorian of the Elmore High School class of 1942. She was married to Arnold V. Berndt on December 7, 1947 at St. Johns Lutheran Church in Elmore. The couple farmed near Elmore...
Dr. David Patton
Dec 5, 2008
Dr. Patton was born on August 22, 1955, in Waseca, MN, the son of John and Carol Patton. He was a 1974 graduate of Blue Earth High School and graduated from St. Cloud State University in 1979 and the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in 1983. He performed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kaiser in San Francisco,...
Thilmer O. Silrum
Nov 28, 2008
Thilmerwas born January 21, 1914, in Bricelyn, MN, the son of Ole and Elizebeth (Gronfor) Silrum.He was raised and educated in Bricelyn where he attended country school. He was married to Mavis J. Johnson on March 8, 1940 in Blue Earth. Thilmer farmed near Bricelyn for more than 20 years before moving to Eau Claire, Wisconsin 1961. The couple returned...
Elmer M. Anderson
Nov 24, 2008
Elmer was born March 24, 1912, in Cope, Colorado, the son of Carl Christ & Josephine (Thorson) Anderson. He attended a country school. He married Harriet Lyon , September. 27, 1933. They spent their entire married life in the Blue Earth and Elmore area where they were involved in farming. He did seasonal work at a Pea Viner, and for...
Angelina Salas
Nov 17, 2008
Angelina was born March 22, 1933, in Yorktown, Texas, the daughter of Antonio and Eusbia (Garcia) Mindieta. She was raised in the San Antonio, Texas area, where she was married to Francisco Salas. They have spent 67 years together. The couple move to Blue Earth in 1973 where Angelina was a homemaker and worked seasonally harvesting local produce. Angelina is...
Betty Bromeland
Nov 15, 2008
Betty was born March 7, 1922, in Emerald Township, MN, the daughter of John and Anna (Amundson) Nelson. She was raised and educated in the Emerald Township area where she was confirmed at Dell Lutheran Church in 1936. She graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1939. In 1943 she graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in English...
Roy Taylor
Nov 13, 2008
Roy was born August 4, 1915 in Union township (Kossuth County), Iowa to Jay and Edith (Bahling) Taylor. He moved as a young child with his family to what would become the family farm Northeast of Elmore. On December 28, 1938, he married Cary Elizabeth Bruvold. The two farmed briefly in the Bricelyn area before moving back to the family...
Frances Smith
Nov 6, 2008
Marge was born October 11, 1922, in Ledyard, Iowa, the daughter of Timothy & Kathryn (McGuire) Doocy. She was raised and educated in Ledyard where she graduated from high school in 1940. She was married to James D. Smitty Smith on June 24, 1944 in Oklahoma. The couple lived in Lakota, Iowa, following their marriage for a few years before...
George W. Nichols
Nov 4, 2008
He was born on July 25, 1936 to Paul A. and Winnie (Kray) Nichols. He was raised on the family farm in Verona Township and graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1954. George married Patricia Lund in 1955 and they had 5 children together. George worked for Bartley Printing in Blue Earth for 31 years and later for Blue...
Floyd K. Zufall
Oct 29, 2008
His working life was spent in the Faribault County, MN area. He worked in the gravel construction business for his brother, was self-employed in TV repair and the gravel hauling business and spent the latter part of his career as a mobile crane operator. Following retirement he returned to the Washburn County area. Devoted husband and father he loved the...
Avis Boettcher
Oct 29, 2008
Mrs. Boettcher diedWednesday, October 29, 2008 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born January 16th, 1930 in Scanlon, Minnesota. She graduated from Elmore High School in 1948 and married Vernon Boettcher November 11, 1950. In 1953 they moved to Tacoma Washington where her husband served in the military. After returning to Elmore in 1955 they continued farming...
Edward Pfaffinger
Oct 25, 2008
He was born October 4, 1917, on the family homestead in Blue Earth, MN, the son of Joseph and Catherine (Bircheneder) Pfaffinger. He was raised in Blue Earth where he was a 1934 graduate of Blue Earth High School. He entered the U.S. Navy on March 16, 1945 where he became an electronics Technicians Mate 3rd Class. He returned from...
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