Obituaries

Peter Mark Lindberg

Peter Mark Lindberg

Feb 10, 2011

Peter Mark Lindberg, age 79, of Blue Earth, died Thursday, February 10, 2011 at St. Luke''s Lutheran Care Center in Blue Earth. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, February 14, 2011 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Earth. Visitation will be from 2:00 to 6:00 PM on Sunday at St. Luke''s Lutheran Care Center in Blue...

Marilyn A. Bollum

Marilyn A. Bollum

Feb 1, 2011

Marilyn A. Bollum, age 76, of Blue Earth, died Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at St. Lukes Lutheran Care Center. Blue Earth. Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 7, 2011, at 11:00 AM, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Earth, with Rev. Dr. Mark Wilms, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Blue Earth. Visitation time will be from...

Marian Eichhorn

Marian Eichhorn

Jan 25, 2011

Marian B. Eichhorn, age 89, of Elmore, died Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at ST. Luke''s Lutheran Care Center, Blue Earth. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 11:00 AM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Elmore, with burial to follow in Riverview Cemetery, Elmore. Visitation will be from 9:00 AM until service time at the church on...

Clifford Fuchs

Clifford Fuchs

Jan 25, 2011

Clifford E. Fuchs, age 94, of Blue Earth, died Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at St. Luke''s Lutheran Care Center, Blue Earth. Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 28, 2011, at 2:30 PM, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth, with Rev. Wesley Hafner officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Blue Earth. Visitation time will be from...

Thilmer Legred

Thilmer Legred

Jan 24, 2011

Thilmer M. "Tim" Legred, age 76, of Bricelyn, died Monday, January 24, 2011, at St. Lukes Lutheran Care Center, Blue Earth. Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 28, 2011, at 11:00 AM, at North Blue Earth Lutheran Church in Brush Creek Township, with Rev. Luther Peterson officiating. Burial will be in North Blue Earth Lutheran Cemetery, Brush Creek...

Jerome Wiltse

Jerome Wiltse

Jan 16, 2011

Jerome "Jerry" Wiltse, Jr. age 71, of Blue Earth, passed away with all his family by his side on Sunday, January 16, 2011, at St. Luke''s Lutheran Care Center.Funeral mass will be held on Thursday, January 20, 2011, at 11:30 AM, at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Blue Earth, with Father Leo Koppala officiating. Burial will be in...

Mildred Harriet Kienitz

Mildred Harriet Kienitz

Jan 14, 2011

Mildred Kienitz, age 91, of Blue Earth, died Friday, January 14, 2011, at United Hospital, Blue Earth.Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, at 10:00 AM, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth, with Rev. Dale Kohrs, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Blue Earth. Visitation time will be from 5:00 to 7:00 PM Monday,...

Harry Junior Curran

Harry Junior Curran

Jan 14, 2011

Harry J. Curran, age 83, of Blue Earth, died Friday, January 14, 2011, at St. Luke''s Lutheran Care Center, Blue Earth. Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 17, 2011, at 11:00 AM, at River of Life Worship Center in Blue Earth, with Rev. John Goodman & Rev. Reid Ellis officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Clinton...

Esther Alma Hovland

Esther Alma Hovland

Jan 13, 2011

Esther Alma Hovland, age 94, of Blue Earth, died Thursday, January 13, 2011, at St. Luke(TM)s Lutheran Care Center, Blue Earth, MN.Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 17, 2011, at 3:00 PM, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Earth, with Rev. Dr. Mark Wilms, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Blue Earth. Visitation will be one hour...

Judy Sabin

Judy Sabin

Jan 9, 2011

Judy was born January 20, 1950, in Blue Earth, the daughter of Edwin and Aileen (Anderson) Schaper. She was raised and educated in the Blue Earth and Bricelyn areas where she was a 1968 graduate of Bricelyn High School. She attended the University of Iowa and then Mankato State University where she earned a degree in Journalism in 1973. She...

Patricia Gresser

Patricia Gresser

Jan 6, 2011

Patricia was the daughter of Max and Mary (Lussenhop) Gresser of Blue Earth. She was born on October 8, 1953 in Blue Earth where she was raised. She was a 1972 graduate of Blue Earth High School. She moved to Indiana where she was married and raised two children; Jessica Rae and son, Kyle Anthony. She returned to Minnesota in...

Hollie Leagjeld

Hollie Leagjeld

Jan 3, 2011

Hollie Cletus Leagjeld was the Builder of Families, Communities and Homes. Hollie was born the second of 13 children on November 3rd, 1921 in Long Prairie, Minnesota. After serving as a Chief Petty Officer in World War II, he and his wife, Margaret, came home to Amboy, Minnesota where they raised their four children, where Margaret taught school and where...

Opal Gartzke

Opal Gartzke

Jan 1, 2011

Opal was born October 16, 1911, at Verona Township, MN, the daughter of Ervin and Emma (King) Gartzke.She was raised and educated in Verona Township and Blue Earth where she was a 1930 graduate of Blue Earth High School. She earned her RN degree from Ancker Hospital in St. Paul in 1933 and began working at Gillette Children''s Hospital in...

George W. Myers

George W. Myers

Dec 26, 2010

George W. "Bill" Myers was born September 21, 1928 in Blue Earth, the son of George H. and Mildred Catherine (Murphy) Myers. He was raised and educated in the Blue Earth area, where he was a 1946 graduate of Blue Earth High School. He was married to Audrey M. Schobert on January 21, 1952. Bill was a lifelong Blue Earth...

Dorothy Silrum

Dorothy Silrum

Dec 20, 2010

Dorothy was born February 25, 1923 in Frost, MN the daughter of Charles and Amolia (Olson) Udstuen. She was raised and educated in the Bricelyn and Blue Earth areas where she attended schools. She had worked and lived with local families and worked at a grocery store until her marriage to Roy M. Hanson on August 8, 1943 in Oklahoma....

Caretha Reynolds

Caretha Reynolds

Dec 20, 2010

Caretha was born, July 23, 1916, in Blue Earth Minnesota the daughter of Carl and Esther (Willmert) Hagger. She was raised in Blue Earth, graduating from Blue Earth High School in 1934. She received a degree in elementary education at Mankato State College in 1938. Caretha taught elementary school at Morgan, MN for one year before getting married. She married...

Forest Johnson

Forest Johnson

Dec 17, 2010

Forest Johnson was born October 07, 1929, in Aurora, Illinois, the son of Charles and Hazel (Johnson) Johnson. He was raised in Helmar, Illinois and went to Newark, Illinois High School. He was married to Ruby Marlene Evans on September 8, 1955 in Plano, Illinois. Forest loved any farm related work and had deliver fertilizer, feed and LP Gas for...

Evelyn J. Sweet

Evelyn J. Sweet

Dec 15, 2010

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Elmer G. Knudsen

Elmer G. Knudsen

Dec 13, 2010

Elmer G. Knudsen was born on November 25, 1913, in Marietta, MN to Magnus Knudsen and Margaret Dahle Knudsen. He was the oldest of five children. As a child, he worked alongside his father in this father''s blacksmith shop. As a teenager he learned the skills of meat cutting while working in a local meat market. Perhaps these experiences were...

Cleighton R. Johnson

Cleighton R. Johnson

Dec 10, 2010

Cleighton Reed Johnson was born on January 25, 1919 at Winnebago, MN the son of Emery Lloyd and Reseda (Held) Johnson. Cleighton''s family lived near Aitkin, MN and Faribault before settling near Huntley where he graduated from Huntley High School. On September 15, 1945 Cleighton married Agnes Pauline Olson in Blue Earth. The two resided with their children in rural...