Merlyn Lopau
Nov 21, 2015
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE: Due to weather, Merlyn's memorial gathering has been changed to Thursday, December 3, 2015 from 4:00 - 8:00 PM. MERLYN WAYNE LOPAU was born on August 24, 1943 to Milton and Florence (Graphenteen) Lopau at Ashton Memorial Hospital in Pipestone, Minnesota. He attended country school through the sixth grade until his school consolidated with the Lake Benton...
Fred Robison
Nov 20, 2015
FRED THOMAS ROBISON was born on May 27, 1921 to Thomas and Nancy (DeShields) Robison in Okema, Oklahoma. He attended school in Sharon, Oklahoma. Following his education, Fred moved to Colorado and took a job picking peaches. He then moved to California where he worked at a sheet metal shop. Fred served his country in the United States Army Air...
Murlaine Hattie Henkel
Nov 20, 2015
Murlaine Hattie (Miller) Henkel was born July 30, 1929 to Nels and Hattie (Swan) Miller in Tracy, Minnesota. She was baptized and confirmed at Sillerud Lutheran Church, rural Balaton, Minnesota. She grew up in Balaton and graduated from Balaton High School. In 1947 she attended Johnsons Beauty Academy in Mankato, Minnesota. She started working in Tracy in 1948, but that...
Cornelius Verhey
Nov 19, 2015
CORNELIUS 'CORNIE' VERHEY was born to Klaas and Lucretia (Van Dis) Verhey on September 30, 1926 in Rock County, Minnesota. He attended country school through the eighth grade and then went to work on the farm with his dad. Cornie was drafted into the United States Army and served in Germany during the conclusion of World War II. Following his...
Margaret Nissen
Nov 19, 2015
Margaret Frieda Nissen… was born to Fred and Grace (Folkerts) Uilk on November 6, 1916 in Edgerton, Minnesota. She was raised in Pipestone County, Minnesota and attended school in Pipestone. After her graduation from Pipestone High School in 1934, she attended one year of normal school or teachers college. In 1935, she started teaching in a one-room country school near...
Anita M. (Godfrey) Cook
Nov 17, 2015
ANITA MARIE (GODFREY) COOK was born on March 7, 1942 to Otis and Lois (Schlicht) Godfrey at the Luverne Community Hospital in Luverne, Minnesota. She received her baptism and was later confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne. Following her graduation in 1960 from Luverne High School she attended beauty school in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She first became...
William "Bill" George Habben
Nov 14, 2015
William “Bill” George Habben was born April 12, 1926, to Herman and Viola (Hall) Habben in Balaton, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at the Balaton United Methodist Church. He received his education at the Burchard and Balaton High School. Following his education he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on April 7, 1944. He served as a rifleman...
Roger Steele
Nov 12, 2015
ROGER WILLIAM STEELE was born on June 27, 1936 to William and Margaret (Spoelstra) Steele on the family farm near Hatfield, Minnesota. He attended school in Pipestone. After completing his education he was united in marriage to Brenda Pankonen in Pipestone and from that marriage two sons were born. They moved to Mankato, Minnesota where Roger worked at Mankato Tent...
Teresa Marie Johnson
Nov 12, 2015
Teresa Marie Johnson was born April 29, 1922 to Ube and Martha (White) Lutterman in Ocheyedan, Iowa. She grew up on various farms until the family settled in rural Balaton. She attended country school through the eighth grade during the Great Depression years. She was a great help to her mother, helping raise the family during difficult days. She was...
Leona Maybelle Mckown
Nov 10, 2015
LEONA MAYBELLE MCKOWN was born on November 29, 1922 to Mabel Tuller Holden and O. Edwin Holden in Pipestone, MN. After finishing school in Pipestone, Leona moved to Washington DC to work for the U.S. Civil Service Commission for several years. She returned to her hometown later with a friend, and then moved to Seattle, WA. After working there she...
Harold Vandeberg
Nov 9, 2015
Please note: Burial will be held prior to Harold's funeral service. Harold VanDeBerg was born on October 19, 1936 to Henry and Della (Kroon) VanDeBerg in Sioux County, Iowa. Harold grew up in rural Sioux Center, Iowa. Harold was baptized on December 6, 1936 and later confirmed at the First Reformed Church in Sioux Center, Iowa. He attended Sioux Center...
Robert Severson
Nov 7, 2015
ROBERT LEE SEVERSON was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on November 27, 1950 to Bern and Mary Grace Severson and raised in Inwood, Iowa. Bob’s family moved from Inwood to Beaver Creek, Minnesota in 1960. Bob excelled in both football and wrestling in his high school years, graduating in 1969. Bob was trained in auto body mechanics at Mankato...
Norma Gertz
Nov 7, 2015
Norma Selma Gertz was born on September 28, 1934 to Arne and Hilda (Josal) Hoiland in Luverne, Minnesota. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. Norma grew up on the farm near Luverne and graduated from Luverne High School in 1953. Following her education, she was united in marriage to Karen Gertz on July 3, 1955 at Zion...
Joan Habben
Nov 7, 2015
Services are planned at a later date in Yakima, Washington. Joan Lee Habben was born September 10, 1945 to Paul and Ruth (Moore) Pollack in Fort Worth, Texas. The family moved to Yakima, Washington in the early 1950s where she attended school and graduated from Davis High School. There she met Larry Norman, whom she wed. Their union was blessed...
Darrell Larsen
Nov 6, 2015
Darrell Lee “Sam” Larsen was born to Soren and Stella (Andersen) Larsen on March 21, 1929 in Tyler, Minnesota, where he was raised and attended school. After his high school graduation, he began working as a carpenter with his father. On July 9, 1950 he was united in marriage to Carole Blaine in Lake Benton, Minnesota. Following their marriage, they...
Robert Jones
Nov 6, 2015
Bob Jones was born June 10, 1926, at Havelock, Iowa, to Wallace P. and Florence (Lewis) Jones. The family moved to South Dakota in 1928 and Bob graduated at Frankfort High School in 1944. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II and served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. After his...
Randy Satter
Nov 5, 2015
Randy Lee Satter was born on March 10, 1976 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Kenneth and Darlene (Nielsen) Satter. He was baptized into the Christian Faith at Valley Lutheran Church in Valley Springs, South Dakota. Randy was raised in Valley Springs and Brandon, South Dakota where he received his education, graduating with the Brandon High School class of 1994....
Milton "Tug" Fritz
Nov 1, 2015
MILTON 'TUG' WILLIAM FRITZ… was born on September 10, 1934 to Raphael and Dorothy “Ann” (Honermann) Fritz in Adrian, Minnesota. He was raised on a farm north of Adrian and attended country school for two years and then St. Adrian Grade School and High School. After his graduation from high school in 1952, he began working at the Adrian Coop...
Vernon Ploeger
Oct 31, 2015
VERNON ALBERT PLOEGER was born on July 10, 1920 to William and Elsie (Hintz) Ploeger in Aurora, South Dakota. He was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Elkton on September 26, 1920 and was confirmed on April 14, 1935 at 1st English Lutheran Church in Aurora, South Dakota. He attended school through the 10th grade in Bushnell, South Dakota. On...
Arnold "Bud" Wenzel
Oct 28, 2015
ARNOLD 'BUD' WALTER WENZEL was born November 26, 1924 to Karl Gustav and Frieda (Ahrendt) Wenzel in Denver Township, Rock County, Minnesota. He received his baptism on March 15, 1925 at the Zion Lutheran Church in Hardwick, Minnesota and was confirmed there on August 6, 1939. He attended country school through the eighth grade. On June 30, 1948 Bud was...
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