Obituaries
Joyce E. Ripley
Dec 26, 2007
Joyce Elizabeth More Ripley was born July 19, 1921, in Pilot Grove Township, Minnesota, the daughter of George H. and Alice (Lowery) More. She attended country school through the 8th-grade and graduated from Elmore High School in 1939. She was confirmed at the Elmore Methodist Church. After graduation she ran a dress shop in Elmore with her sister, Jean, for...
Dustin J. Volz
Dec 21, 2007
Dusty was born June 8, 1980, at Blue Earth, MN, the son John G. and Rita C. (Pries) Volz.He was raised and educated in Elmore where he was a 1999 graduate of Blue Earth Area High School. He attended South Dakota State University where he earned his bachelors degree in Animal Science in 2006. Since June 2006 he had worked...
Frances Rae Weis
Dec 21, 2007
Fran was born on February 9, 1933 in Saginaw, Michigan the daughter of Raymond and Cleoria Frances (Oberg) Emmerich. In 1946 she moved to Madison, MN then to Hampton, Iowa in 1950. After graduating from Hampton High School in 1951, she attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa for one year before transferring to ST. Joseph?s Mercy School...
Regina Mikolai
Dec 19, 2007
Regina (Reggie) was born on August 19, 1910 near East Chain, Minnesota, to Mary and Joseph Mikolai, the fifth of 11 children. She attended East Chain school. She worked at various jobs in Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado. She later lived in Blue Earth, MN until her mother died in 1970 when she moved to Minneapolis, where she lived until three...
Ronald Shure
Dec 11, 2007
He was born September 19, 1931, at Albert Lea, MN, the son of Martin & Winnifred (Hoveland) Shure.He was raised in Frost where he was a 1949 graduate of Frost High School. He served on a destroyer in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He returned to Frost where he worked for the P.H. Thompson Construction Company. He was...
Charlotte Robb
Dec 6, 2007
She was born February 1, 1924, in Algona, Iowa, the daughter of Oliver and Alice (Siep) Elmore.Charlotte attended country schools in Blue Earth. Following her education she did housekeeping and worked the Winnebago Canning Company before her marriage to Gerald T. Robb on March 3, 1950 in Mankato. She was a farm wife and homemaker for several years. Following her...
Duane L. Murphy
Dec 2, 2007
Duane Murphy was born on July 22nd, 1932 in Blue Earth to William and Isabelle (Willette) Murphy. He graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1950 and worked in the area until joining the army in 1954. He was discharged in 1956. He met and married Patricia Farrow on February 6th, 1958 at Sacred Heart Church in Ledyard, Iowa. They...
Agnes C. Bjorklund
Dec 1, 2007
Agnes was born April 20, 1910, in Blue Earth, the daughter of Otto and Hedwig (Kienast) Rajewsky.She was raised and educated in the Blue Earth area where she attended Blue Earth schools. She was married to Paul "Oscar" Bjorklund. Agnes had worked in the parts department of the Ford Tractor Dealer, at the Maid Rite, was a night operator with...
Bryon Hendrickson
Nov 30, 2007
was born February 3, 1950, in Albert Lea, MN, the son of Aldean and Mary Ann (Wilder) Hendrickson.He was raised and educated in Wells where he attended St. Casimir''s Parochial School through 8th grade and graduated from Wells High School in 1968. He was a math major at Mankato State University in Mankato, graduating in 1972. He came to Blue...
Clarice Amelia Abraham
Nov 25, 2007
Clarice Amelia (Malwitz) Abraham, daughter of Helena (Callies) and J. Frank Malwitz, was born in Howard, South Dakota (Minor County) and died Sunday, November 25, 2007 on the Abraham Century Farm in Elmore Township. She came into this world on June 2, 1923 and became a child of God through Holy Baptism at St. John''s Lutheran Church of Howard on...
Tessie Christensen
Nov 24, 2007
Tessie was born October 8, 1918, at Eden Township, MN, the daughter of Ferdinand and Anna (Schultz) Dittbenner. She was raised and educated in Eden Township, MN where she attended schools. After her schooling she was a caregiver for a local family before her marriage to Richard H. Christensen on March 29, 1940 in Morgan, MN. The couple farmed near...
Consejo Wentz
Nov 16, 2007
She was born April 26, 1931, in Frost, MN, the daughter of Ramon and Elutaria (Noriega) Cervantes.Teddy was raised and educated in the Blue Earth area where she was a 1949 graduate of Blue Earth High School. She was married to John F. Wentz on June 10, 1949 in Blue Earth. John worked for the U.S. Postal Service and Teddy...
Velma Stevens
Nov 15, 2007
She was born September 1, 1927, at Adams, Nebraska, the daughter of Rendit and Sarah (DeYoung) DeBoer. She was raised in Nebraska and Arkansas. In the early 1940''s she moved near family in the Fairmont area. She was married to Edwin H. Wiederhoft on December 14, 1946. Velma was a homemaker in Fairmont, raising six children. She later lived in...
Ellis J. Anderson
Nov 5, 2007
He was born August 4, 1920, at Gruver, Iowa, the son of James and Gertrude (Samo) Anderson.He was raised in Gruver, Iowa and later in Pilot Grove Township, MN, where her attended country schools. In 1936 he began farming in the Brush Creek area. He farmed with his brothers for several years before moving to Chester, Montana 1952. He was...
Robin Talle
Oct 27, 2007
Robin "Bob" Douglas Talle was born on Wednesday, January 2, 1939 to Herman and Lucy (Purdy) Talle in Grafton, North Dakota. He was baptized in the American Lutheran Church on March 31, 1939, sponsors were Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Gryte, Bernice Katz and William Hood. On April 26, 1953, Robin was confirmed at the Glenwood Lutheran Church, Glenwood, MN. On...
Lorene M. Clark
Oct 26, 2007
Lorene was born April 27, 1920, at Spencer, Iowa, the daughter of Emil and Flora (Bowman) Kark.She was raised and educated in Blue Earth where she was a 1938 graduate of Blue Earth High School. She attended the Minnesota School of Business in Mankato and was later married to DeVere E. "Potsy" Clark on February 9, 1940 in Blue Earth....
Cecil L. Gramblin
Oct 11, 2007
He was born September 13, 1932, in Webster City, Iowa, the son of Cecil E. and Anna N. (Crouch) Gramblin.Cecil is survived by his son, Son, Randy Gramblin of Blue Earth, daughters: Rhonda (& Mark) Beenken of Phoenix, Arizona, Janis (& Brian) Vorhes of Alleman, Iowa, Linda (& Mark) House of Frost, MN., his sister, Janice (& Jerry) Elm of...
E. Lorraine (Daly) Kraft
Oct 7, 2007
She was born December 31, 1908, at Pleasant Prairie Township, MN, the daughter of John C. and Edith (Boisclair) Daly. She was raised and educated in the Blue Earth area where she attended country school and graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1928. She took her normal training after high school and began teaching country school and later taught...
Richard E. Dahl
Oct 4, 2007
Dick was born May 18, 1944, in Blue Earth, the son of Casper L. and Lucille G. (Holm) DahlDick was raised and educated in the Pilot Grove area, graduating in 1962 from Elmore High School. He loved playing football and basketball in high school and stayed active with golfing and softball throughout his life. After graduation, he began farming in...
Warren Middleswarth
Sep 27, 2007
Warren was born January 22, 1945, at Portsmouth, Virginia, the son of William F. and Helen M. (Frink) Middleswarth. He was raised and educated in the Portsmouth, VA area and was later a 1964 graduate of Summerville High School, Summerville, South Carolina. He served 6 years with the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Vietnam. He returned from service in 1970...
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