Mildred Terhark Garbers
Jan 10, 2019
MILDRED IDA (JOHNSON) TERHARK GARBERS was born on October 17, 1929 to Earl and Pearl (Dyslin) Johnson on the family farm in Murray County, Minnesota. Growing up, Millie attended country school before moving to the Balaton Public School in Balaton, Minnesota. Millie graduated from Balaton in 1947 and moved with her family to a farm by Rock Lake. On January...
Pearl Nellie Schomacker
Jan 7, 2019
PEARL NELLIE SCHOMACKER was born to William and Hattie Boeve on June 19, 1929 on the family farm in Rock Rapids, Iowa. She was raised here and attended country school near Rock Rapids through the fifth grade. Her family then moved to a farm near Larchwood, Iowa, where she completed her schooling at Klondike country school. After her schooling, she...
Eldy Eugene Dahl
Jan 6, 2019
ELDEN EUGENE DAHL… better known as “Eldy”, “Big E”, or Little Man”... Passed away on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at the age of 85 at the Hospice Cottage in Luverne, Minnesota. He was born to Regina (Price) and William Dahl on July 30, 1933. He was raised with his four siblings in Pipestone, Minnesota and attended Pipestone High School. After...
Helena M. Mulder
Jan 6, 2019
Helena M. Mulder was born to Tom and Grace (Tinklenberg) Vanden Bosch on April 28, 1932 at their home in Battle Plain Township of Rock County, Minnesota. She was raised there and attended the Edgerton Christian School through the tenth grade. Helena spent her last two years of high school at Western Christian High School in Hull, Iowa, graduating in...
Eva Williamson
Jan 4, 2019
Eva Carol (Beck) Williamson was born to Christian and Ane (Madsen) Beck on June 16, 1917, on her grandparents’ farm, a little southwest of Ruthton, Minnesota. Eva’s sister, Edna, was born there two years later. They were raised in the Presbyterian faith. When Eva was six years old, the family moved to Illinois, but within a few years, the family...
Lloyd T. Vanden Bussche
Dec 31, 2018
** Private Family Service will be held. ** LLOYD "BUSH" THOMAS VANDEN BUSSCHE was born on December 9, 1957 to Walter and Loretta (Kruger) Vanden Bussche in Luverne, Minnesota. He was raised on the family farm and had a mind of his own from the age of two. During his younger years Lloyd often helped his parents on the farm...
Erich Mechling
Dec 31, 2018
ERICH "PAPA" GOTLIEB MECHLING was born to Gottlieb and Martha (Brinkman) Mechling on August 5, 1926 in Königsberg Ostpreuβen, Germany. After the loss of his parents and his four siblings as civilian casualties in WWII, Erich moved to Berlin to live with his aunt and uncle. In his mid-teens, Erich was drafted into the German Army and served as an...
Marian Lorenzen
Dec 28, 2018
MARIAN DOROTHY LORENZEN was born on February 3, 1931 to William and Lillian (Lauck) Kindt on the family farm in Rock County, Minnesota, where she was raised. She was baptized at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne, Minnesota on March 11, 1931 and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Hardwick, Minnesota on June 24, 1945. She began her education at...
Frances Jaacks
Dec 24, 2018
FRANCES DARLENE JAACKS was born to Arie and Janna (Groot) Rysdam on January 27, 1925 in Sanborn, Iowa. Three years later, the family moved to Holland, Minnesota and later to Pipestone, Minnesota. She attended Pipestone high school and graduated in 1942. On February 19, 1948, she was united in marriage to Harold Ashton Jaacks in the First Presbyterian Church in...
Wallace Schmuck
Dec 22, 2018
WALLACE ALVIN SCHMUCK was born on June 21, 1928 to Henry and Selma (Krumheuer) Schmuck on June 21, 1928 in Luverne, Minnesota. Wallace was confirmed in 1951 at Rose Dell Lutheran Church in Jasper, Minnesota. He attended school in Luverne, Minnesota. At age 15, Wallace began raising cattle, farrowing pigs, milking cows and farming the land with his 17-year-old brother,...
Laurita Shelstad
Dec 19, 2018
LAURITA CHRISTINA SHELSTAD was born to Thomas Sr. and Lorna Christina Henrietta (Reyelts) Hill on September 28, 1953 in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. Laurita was baptized in the Trinity Lutheran in Washington, DC and was later confirmed in the Trinity Lutheran church in Mt. Lake, Minnesota, where she was active in the church’s youth groups. She attended Mt. Lake High School...
Margaret A. Emery
Dec 17, 2018
MARGARET AGNES EMERY was born to Everett and Margaret (Van Klie) Bjerke on March 24, 1938 at the family home near Hadley, Minnesota. In 1948, the family moved to a farm near Lake Wilson, Minnesota. Marge’s schooling began in Chandler, Minnesota. She then attended a country school which consolidated with Edgerton Public School. After her schooling, she worked as a...
Dolores M. Faber
Dec 11, 2018
DOLORES MINNIE FABER was born on April 20, 1925 to Paul and Minnie (Koster) Trautman on the farm in Verdi Township, west of Lake Benton, Minnesota. She was baptized that very day and was later confirmed on June 25, 1939 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Verdi. She attended country school and graduated from Lake Benton High School in 1954. Dolores...
Rev. Kendrick L. Matthews
Dec 10, 2018
REV. KENDRICK LEON MATTHEWS graduated from this earth to join his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on December 10, 2018. He died peacefully at his home at the age of 70 years, three months, and three days and moved from a body that had been crippled by polio to the heavenly pain-free body that he had prayed for most of...
Beverly Mitchell
Dec 8, 2018
BEVERLY JULAINE MITCHELL... On September 12, 1944, BEVERLY JULAINE (Nelson) MITCHELL joined the family of Ole and Viola (Renken) Nelson and her five siblings, Charlotte, Norman, Ronald, Alice and Ole, Jr. They lived on a farm near Cazenovia, MN. Beverly was the third daughter born and learned a strong work ethic at an early age, with little time for play....
Sherry Karen Johnson
Dec 7, 2018
SHERRY KAREN JOHNSON was born May 6, 1933, in San Francisco, California. She was adopted at age two by Nona Nelson Preston Gray. They made their home in New York, New York until 1939, when she and Nona traveled by train to Tyler, Minnesota. They then made their home on the Marshfield family farm with her grandparents, Mr. And Mrs....
Rodney Glidewell
Dec 6, 2018
Rodney Neil Glidewell was born on August 17, 1939 to Buryl and Loretta (Farwick) Glidewell in Pipestone, Minnesota. He was baptized as an infant at St. Leo Catholic Church in Pipestone. As a child, Rod enjoyed fishing and helping out on the family farm. He was also a member of 4-H. He attended country school through the 7th grade and...
Gloria Shaffer
Dec 5, 2018
GLORIA SHAFFER was born July 11, 1925, in Irene, South Dakota, to Fred and Martha (Olson) Andersen. Gloria graduated from Luverne High School, in the Class of 1943. Following high school graduation, she attended business school in Chicago, Illinois, and then entered Brookings State in Brookings, South Dakota. Gloria then moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where she worked for...
Gregory Post
Dec 3, 2018
GREG POST, Age 62, of Pipestone, died on Monday, December 3, 2018 at the Pipestone County Medical Center in Pipestone. Greg is lovingly remembered by his two daughters, Tara Post and Trudi Kuehl; two grandchildren, Jordan (Danielle Volkmann)Richardson and Jazlyn Smith; three great-grandchildren, Daniel Richardson, Jayceon Allen, and Faelynn Richardson; one sister, Diane (Bill) Scheremet; four brothers, Dale (Delma) Post,...
Darlene Joann Matus
Nov 28, 2018
DARLENE JOANN MATUS was born on June 28, 1934 to Lloyd and Minnie (Henningsen) Emery in Luverne, Minnesota. Early in her childhood years, she moved with her family for a short time to live in Kansas while her father served in the United States Army. The family then returned to the Luverne area where she attended school and graduated from...
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