Elsie Mulligan
May 3, 2025
Elsie Joan (Heiden) Mulligan was born on February 26, 1934 to George and Lorna (Carter) Heiden, in Roosevelt, Minnesota. She moved to Luverne, Minnesota at the age of five and graduated from Luverne High School. During and after high school, she worked for Northwestern Bell Telephone. On July 25, 1953, Elsie married Eugene Mulligan at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in...
Gerald Totman
Jun 3, 2025
Gerald Totman, age 99, of Pipestone, Minnesota, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at the Good Samaritan Society in Pipestone. Arrangements have been entrusted to Hartquist Funeral Home.
Please return as Gerald's life history will be placed here once it becomes available.
Margaret "Margie" Anderson
Jun 3, 2025
Margaret “Margie” Mary Anderson was born on September 21, 1928 in Ellsworth, Minnesota to William and Margaret (Schommer) Bofenkamp. She was baptized at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Ellsworth. Margie grew up in Ellsworth with her nine siblings and graduated from Ellsworth Catholic School in 1946. Margie moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to attend nursing school to become an...
Gary Biever
May 30, 2025
Gary Earl Biever was born on August 8, 1942, to Earl and Eileen (Demuth) Biever at the Pipestone County Hospital in Pipestone, Minnesota. He was baptized on October 10, 1942, at St. Martin Catholic Church in Woodstock, Minnesota and made a confirmation of his faith on July 1, 1950, also at St. Martin. He played sports of all kinds during...
John Brands
May 27, 2025
John Brands was born on December 30, 1930, to Evert and Fannie (Driesen) Brands in rural Rock Valley, Iowa. He attended country school near Jasper, Minnesota and enjoyed fishing with his dad and riding bicycle whenever he could.
While courting his future wife, Mary, together they enjoyed spending evenings roller-skating and square skipping. John and Mary were united in marriage on...
Evelyn Rens
May 24, 2025
Memorials may be directed to Hills Christian School in Hills, Minnesota.
Evelyn “Evie” Rens was born on July 17, 1932 to John and Kate (Korthals) Vanden Oever in Hull, Iowa. She was raised on a farm outside of Hull and attended a country school through the 8th grade. Her teacher noticed she was very good at spelling and decided to enter...
Gerdena Van Eck
May 21, 2025
Gerdena Mae Van Eck was born on July 1, 1935 to Albert and Jenny Schelhaas (Beckering) at home on the family farm in Pipestone County near Edgerton, Minnesota where she was raised and attended Edgerton Christian School. She was baptized as an infant at the Christian Reformed Church in Edgerton and confirmed there in 1952. She was united in marriage...
Gail M. Hachmann
May 21, 2025
Gail Mathilda Hachmann was born November 14, 1936 on a farm in Sweet Township to Jacob and Mina Jacobson. Gail was baptized September 13, 1937 at Salem Church in Sweet Township. Gail grew up in Sweet Township attending District 35 Country School through eighth grade. Gail was confirmed May 27, 1951 at Salem Church as she continued to attend high...
Jeanette Smidt
May 21, 2025
Jeanette wanted to see Jesus. Her family came to know this well. Because God's timing didn't suit her she had to be content with knowing that at least Jesus was sitting right there beside her. She shrugged, and supposed God still had something for her to do. So she kept on going, doing what she thought she should, for as...
Elizabeth "Bette" Ziska
May 19, 2025
Elizabeth “Bette” Louise Ziska was born June 2, 1926 to Lloyd and Phoebe (Hill) Peterson in Stillwater, Minnesota. She graduated from Monroe High School in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1944. On November 16, 1946, Bette was united in marriage to William Ziska at St. Stanislaus Church in St. Paul. Bill and Bette would live in West and South St. Paul...
William "Bill" Johnson
May 19, 2025
William "Bill" Richard Johnson passed away peacefully with his beloved wife by his side on May 19, 2025.
William "Bill" Johnson was born on March 9, 1935, to H. Louis and Clara Dorethea (Sorensen) Johnson at the Naeve Hospital in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He graduated from Alden High School in Alden, MN, in 1953. In 1954, he entered the U.S. Army...
Barbara Hubner
May 15, 2025
Barbara Lee Hubner was born on January 27, 1936, to Roy James and Helen Lee (Berger) Langdon in Lincoln, NE. Her family moved to Chicago, IL when she was a small child. In 1947, her dad transferred to Sioux Falls, SD. At the age of 16, she lost her mom in a car accident. At 19, she met Louis Hubner,...
MaryLynn Portz
May 14, 2025
MaryLynn Elizabeth Portz was born to Adrian Henry and Irma Theresa (Pottebaum) Dreckman on February 8, 1946 in Le Mars, Iowa where she was baptized. She was raised in the area by Struble, Iowa until 1952 when she moved with her parents to Ruthton, Minnesota. While living in Ruthton, she was confirmed at St. Martin Catholic Church in Woodstock, Minnesota....
Larry Mortland
May 10, 2025
Larry Neal Mortland was born on June 17, 1942 to Neal and Louise (Nihart) Mortland in Tyler, Minnesota. Larry grew up on the Arco family farm. He was baptized, received his first communion, and was confirmed in the Catholic faith. Growing up, Larry worked on the family farm and did chores for many of the neighbors when needed. Larry attended...
Christopher R. Smith, Sr.
May 10, 2025
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred.
Christopher Robbin Smith, Sr., was born on July 6, 1972 to James and Ann (Ladwig) Smith in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Growing up, Chris moved with his family to various towns in Iowa and Alaska and attended school, later completing his GED. While growing up in Juneau, Alaska, Chris met Leslie Knapp. The couple was...
Barbara "Barb" Possail
May 10, 2025
Barbara Ann Possail was born on December 14, 1940 to Everett and Marjorie (Rokeh) Giles on a farm near Hendricks, Minnesota. She attended a country school in Brookings County through the 8th grade. She was confirmed in the faith in 1952 at the Methodist church in Hendricks. She began 9th grade in Hendricks for a few weeks until her mom and...
Carol Stroh
May 6, 2025
Carol Lou (Roberts) Stroh was born October 28, 1940 to J.W. “Buddy” Roberts and Elizabeth Ann (Wright) Roberts at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, Texas. She graduated from Sunset High School in Dallas, and worked at Dallas Title, Titche Goettinger, Republic National Life as a Death Claims Auditor, and Teletype Operator at LTV Aerospace.
On December 18, 1971 Carol married Harold...
Etienne "Gene" Thooft
May 3, 2025
Etienne Rene “E.R.” “Gene” Thooft was born May 14, 1930 to Ernest Joseph and Marie Virginia (Dobbelaere) Thooft in Limestone Township, Lincoln County, near Arco, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Eloi Catholic Church in Ghent, Minnesota. He grew up on the farm and attended 8 years of country school District #61 in Island Lake Township, Lyon County,...
Steven Nordmeyer
Apr 30, 2025
Steven Ronald Nordmeyer was born on Monday, August 23, 1948 to Ronald and Mavis (Enke) Nordmeyer at the hospital in Tyler, Minnesota. He was raised in Lake Benton, Minnesota and attended Lake Benton public schools. Growing up, he loved competing in football, basketball and track. Outside of school, Steve enjoyed hunting, trapping and fishing. As a teenager, he worked two summers...
Ruth Bowman
Apr 29, 2025
Ruth (Burggraaff) Bowman was born April 2, 1951, in Hull, Iowa to Richard Burggraaff and Antonia (Vander Schaaf) Burggraaff. Ruth was baptized in the First Reformed Church. She graduated from Boyden-Hull High School and later Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, with a bachelor’s degree in social work.
Ruth was a lifelong generous and caring person. Her life’s purpose was always to...
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