Mabel Green
Sep 6, 2011
MABEL GREEN was born on June 2, 1919 to Theodore and Julia (Bly) Thompson in Pipestone, Minnesota. She was raised on a farm near Ruthton, Minnesota where she attended school. After her high school graduation in 1937, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended the Minnesota School of Business. Upon completion of her education, she moved to Pipestone and became...
Arnold "Buzz" Dass
Aug 31, 2011
“Did you hear the one about…” Arnold “Buzz” Dass was born June 28, 1938 to John and Mathilda “Tillie” (Sterzinger) Dass on a farm in Lake Stay Township, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Dionysius Catholic Church in Tyler. He attended country school and Ivanhoe schools. Following a tornado in 1955, he attended school in Tyler and graduated...
Kathryn S. Stoakes
Aug 29, 2011
KATHRYN S. STOAKES was born on April 2, 1921 to William and Malinda (Bierkamp) Rathjen in Luverne, Minnesota, where she was raised and received her education. She was baptized and later confirmed at the First Presbyterian Church in Luverne. On April 13, 1941, Kathryn was united in marriage to Darrell J. Stoakes. Following their marriage the couple lived on the...
Sophie G. Carlson
Aug 23, 2011
SOPHIE GERTRUDE CARLSON, 90, of Pipestone, Minnesota was called from this life on August 23, 2011 after a courageous battle with cancer. Sophie was born to Ubbo and Helen (Rewerts) Weets on January 13, 1921 in Scotland, South Dakota. During her childhood and early teenage years, Sophie’s family moved from Scotland to Alpena and later Flandreau, South Dakota where she...
Kelly D. Staeffler
Aug 21, 2011
KELLY DEAN STAEFFLER was born April 30, 1967, to Gary and Jean (Ossefoort) Staeffler in Luverne, Minnesota at the Luverne Community Hospital. He was baptized at St. Catherine Catholic Church and later confirmed at St. John Lutheran, both in Luverne. He was raised in Luverne and graduated from Luverne High School in 1985. Following school he began employment at IBP...
Eleanor L. Loger
Aug 20, 2011
ELANOR LAURA LOGER was born to Herman and Laura (Koch) Hamann on February 24, 1923 on a farm in Spring Water Township of Rock County, Minnesota where she was raised and attended school. She was baptized and confirmed on June 29, 1941 at St. John Lutheran in Luverne, Minnesota. Upon completion of her education, she helped on the farm. After...
Leslie E. Ladd
Aug 18, 2011
LESLIE ELMOR LADD was born on May 13, 1913 to Lauren and Anna (Enright) Ladd in Cleveland Township, near Rock Rapids, Iowa. The family later moved to a farm four miles north of Hardwick, Minnesota. He attended District #75 country school for eight years and then attended and graduated from Luverne High School in 1932. Following his education he continued...
Loren Ossenfort
Aug 17, 2011
LOREN FREDERICK OSSENFORT was born on October 20, 1938 to Albert and Anna (Meyer) Ossenfort on the farm near Boyden, Iowa. He was baptized in November that year at St. John’s Lutheran Church near Boyden. When Loren was young, the family moved to a farm near Leads, Iowa where he attended school through the eighth grade. In 1952, the family...
Lillian Nielsen
Aug 14, 2011
LILLIAN NIELSEN was born to Niels Chris and Gladys (Flyger) Andersen on March 15, 1926 in Elkton, South Dakota. When she was two years old, she moved with her family to Ruthton, Minnesota where she was raised and attended school. After her graduation from Ruthton High School in 1944, she helped her parents at their telephone company as a switchboard...
Beth Hudson
Aug 12, 2011
BETH HUDSON was born to Joseph William and Emma Elizabeth (Kerkove) Haubrich on September 26, 1919 in Pipestone, Minnesota. She was raised on the family farm southeast of Pipestone where she attended country school. She continued her education at the high school in Pipestone. After her graduation in 1936, she worked at the Montgomery Ward Store in Pipestone for a...
Elsie Baerenwald
Aug 11, 2011
ELSIE BAERENWALD was born to Fritz 'Fred' and Martha (Schroeder) Heitritter on August 12, 1910 in Hull, Iowa. She was raised on the family farm in Sheridan Township near Boyden, Iowa and attended country school. She was baptized at St. John Lutheran Church in Boyden and later confirmed at St. Paul Lutheran in Hull. She attended high school at Boyden...
Karen Dammann
Aug 11, 2011
KAREN DAMMANN was born to Alfred and Wanda (Bode) Briggs on September 4, 1954 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was raised in Luverne, Minnesota where she received her education, After she graduated from Luverne High School in 1973, Karen cared for her uncle Gilbert in his home in Luverne. On August 18, 1973, she was united in marriage to...
James Adams
Aug 10, 2011
JAMES HARVEY ADAMS was born to Harold and Anne Catherine (Broderick) Adams on July 18, 1947 in Cloquet, Minnesota. He spent the first few years of his life in Superior, Wisconsin where his father worked as a tower agent for the Great Northern Railroad. When Jim reached school age, his parents moved the family to the Askov-Kerrick, Minnesota area where...
Roy Amdahl
Aug 9, 2011
ROY AMDAHL was born on September 30, 1922, along with his twin brother Ray, to C.J. and Christine (Johnson) Amdahl in Flandreau, South Dakota. He attended elementary school in Flandreau, and then the family moved to Pipestone, Minnesota where he continued his education. He graduated from Pipestone High School in 1940. On December 17, 1942, Roy enlisted in the U.S....
Harry F. Thooft
Aug 9, 2011
HARRY FRED THOOFT was born to Octaaf and Emma (Becker) Thooft on March 15, 1927 on a farm in Lincoln County, Minnesota. He was raised on farms in Lincoln County and Lyon County, Minnesota. He was baptized, received his first Holy Communion, and confirmed at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Minneota, Minnesota. He attended country school in District 66 and...
Gladys Munson
Aug 7, 2011
Gladys Eleanor Munson was born December 11, 1911 to Charles and Mary (Johnson) Rathlisberger in Mankato, Minnesota. She was baptized and later confirmed at Sillerud Lutheran Church of rural Balaton, Minnesota. She grew up in Slayton, Minnesota and graduated from Slayton High School and Slayton Normal School. After teaching for several years in rural Murray County, she met the love...
Michelle Fritz
Aug 6, 2011
MICHELLE FRITZ was born to Rodney and Robin (Hollenhors) Fritz on May 19, 1989, in Pipestone, Minnesota where she was raised and attended Hill Elementary School and then Pipestone High School. While she was in high school, she worked part-time at McDonalds in Pipestone. After her graduation in 2008, she became employed at Pizza Hut in Pipestone. She also worked...
Gerald "Bob" Hussong
Jul 28, 2011
GERALD C. 'BOB' HUSSONG II was born in Ames, Iowa, to Gerald C. Hussong I and Ruth (Kennedy) on July 31, 1921. He was baptized in 1937 at Ellsworth Union Church in Iowa and later confirmed on February 13, 1958 at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne, Minnesota. Bob had many memories of growing up during the Great Depression. His...
Donald Bob Sandberg
Jul 27, 2011
Donald (Bob) Robert Sandberg was born September 8, 1941 in Geneva, Nebraska to Donald & Eileen (Weatherly) Sandberg. He was united in marriage to his wife, Shirley Petersen, on October 22, 1960. They moved to Pipestone, Minnesota, where they raised their four children. They moved several times throughout their married life, settling in Lake Benton, Minnesota at the time of...
Laura A. Welch
Jul 24, 2011
Laura Ann Welch was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 21, 1937 to Garrett and Ellen (Holm) Welch. She was educated at Loretto Academy in Chicago, and graduated in 1955. She worked for the American Bar Association until she moved to Tyler in 1972 to be with her mother. She was employed in Tyler for the City Administrator and the...
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