Obituaries
Mary A. Smith
Feb 18, 2009
Mary A. Smith was born May 16, 1931, at Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Dr. William and Helen Shepard. She was raised in Des Moines, Iowa and graduated from St. Joseph Academy. Mary married Edwin Aukes and he preceded her in death. She married James F. Smith on September 3, 1966 at St. Paul, MN and they resided on their...
Mark Krosch
Feb 17, 2009
At the time of his death, Mark was 96. He lived those years with courage, dignity, strength, and wit. He taught us by example that material things can come and go but to give generously of ones love and time. That is how he fulfilled what he considered his most important roles- those of father and grandfather. For many years,...
Harold Voight
Feb 16, 2009
Harold was born May 29, 1928, in Arlington, MN, the son of Henry and Johanna (Meier) Voight. He was raised and educated in Arlington, MN and graduated from Mankato West High School in 1946. Following school he served in the U.S. Air Force and returned home to Mankato where he worked at Nielsens Nursery for 11 years. He later began...
Gerhard Boettcher
Feb 15, 2009
Gerhard Walter Boettcher was born November 9, 1916 in Elmore Township, the son of Henry B. Boettcher and Hattie (Sohn) Boettcher. He attended school at the St. John Parochial School in Elmore Township. He was married to Laura R. Klatt on November 30, 1939 at St. John Lutheran Church in Elmore Township. The couple lived and farmed in Elmore and...
Mary Ann Anderson
Feb 10, 2009
Mary was born July 03, 1933 in Mankato, MN. She was the daughter of Harold and Agnes (Megaw) Olson. Mary was raised on the family farm just south of Amboy. Mary graduated from Winnebago High School in 1951, and soon after attended St. Josephs Nursing School in Mankato where she became an LPN. She worked as an LPN at the...
Jerry Rogers
Jan 31, 2009
Jerry was born September 30, 1944, in Berkeley, CA. Jerry moved to Blue Earth shortly after he was born where he was raised and educated. Jerry graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1962. Jerry served in the army and returned to Blue Earth. Jerry worked at Gherring manufacturing for several years then as a bartender at the American Legion....
Roger W. Halverson
Jan 22, 2009
Roger W. Halverson, 61, passed away Thursday, January 22, 2009 in Tucson, AZ after a three month battle with pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his wife, Linda (Amundson) of 37 years, brothers, Bill (Mary) Halverson, of Frost, MN, Buck (Laurie) Halverson, of Blue Earth, MN and Randy Halverson, of Frost, MN and several nieces and nephews all of whom...
Merridy M. Kienitz
Jan 19, 2009
Merridy was born in Hanlontown, Iowa on December 11, 1921, to Stewart and Rose (Struck) Espe. She was baptized in the Hanlontown Lutheran Church before moving to Welcome, MN where her father was manager of a grain elevator. Confirmation was in February of 1936. After graduating from Welcome Public High School in 1939, she attended Mankato State College graduating with...
Jeremiah J. Perrine
Jan 13, 2009
Jeremiah John Perrine, infant son of Nathan and Kari (Ubben) Perrine, was stillborn Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at Albert Lea Medical Center. Private family services will be held. Patton Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Blue Earth is assisting the family with the arrangements. Jeremiah is survived by his parents, Nathan and Kari Perrine of Bricelyn, sister, Jasmine Perrine, brother,...
Helen Kliendl
Jan 12, 2009
Helen Irene (Clark) Kliendl was born November 22, 1919, inEmerald Township of Faribault Co. to Annetta (Evans) Clark and William Clark. She attended country school until the 9th grade, then attended Blue Earth High School, graduating in 1936. At the age of 19 she went to Normal Teacher Training at Mankato State College. Helen taught county school for four years....
LaVern Fuchs
Jan 9, 2009
LaVern was born February 12, 1942, in Buffalo Center, IA, the son of Theodore and Helen (Klatt) Fuchs. He was raised on the family farm located about 6 miles southeast between the Blue Earth and Elmore Area. He attended and graduated 2nd in his class from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf in Faribault. Following graduation LaVern worked for...
Larry Ehrich
Jan 9, 2009
Larry was born June 9, 1943, in Blue Earth the son of Lawrence and Eleanor (Mensing) Ehrich. He was raised and educated in Elmore where he was a 1961 graduate of Elmore High School. He attended Mechanical Technical School in Mankato and returned to work for the Farmers Elevator in Elmore. He was married to January D. Thompson on December...
Edna Baker
Jan 7, 2009
Edna was born February 10, 1915 in La Salle County Illinois to Lydia (Roeder) Baker and Edwin B. Baker. At the age of four she moved to Minnesota with her parents. They lived on a farm just north of Marna, Minnesota. She went to a rural school for eight years, attended Blue Earth High School and graduated in 1933. In...
Dale Coy
Dec 29, 2008
Dale was born September 13, 1948, in Waseca, MN, the son of Lester and Mary (Barnick) Coy. He was raised and educated in the Elmore and Lakota, Iowa areas where he was a 1966 graduate of Lakota High School. He graduated with a degree in Agricultural Business from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa before serving in the U.S. Army....
Janice Anderson
Dec 28, 2008
January was born February 10, 1937, in Elmore, MN, the daughter of Albert and Elsie (Ahrens) Ehrich. She was raised and educated in Elmore where she was a 1955 graduate of Elmore High School. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Johns Lutheran Church rural Elmore. January was married to Fred FrogAnderson on April 28, 1956 at St. Johns Lutheran...
Mary E. Richter
Dec 26, 2008
Mary Ellen Adams Richter was born on March 16, 1912 in Algona, Iowa to William Wallace Adams and Mary Elizabeth Dutton Adams. She graduated from the Algona Normal Training class of 1930. In the fall of that year she moved to Springfield township in Kossuth County, Iowa where she taught rural school for two years. While teaching school, she met...
Astrid M. Ahrens
Dec 22, 2008
She was born December 10, 1915, the daughter of Jens and Louise (Fredrickson) Knoff, at Sims, North Dakota and grew up on a farm near Grafton, North Dakota. She graduated from Concordia College in Moorehead, MN and received her Masters Degree from Mankato State . She taught home economics and many other courses in her long teaching career. She taught...
Alice D. Franke
Dec 22, 2008
Alice was born June 3, 1915, in Blue Earth, the daughter of Fred and Lillian (Sommerfield) Oelke. She was raised and educated in Blue Earth where she graduated from high school in 1933. She attended cosmetology college and became a cosmetologist in Blue Earth. She was a longtime member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth where she was...
Gerald N. Hougen
Dec 11, 2008
He was born December 24, 1929, in Emmons, MN the son of Otis and Mildred (Peterson) Hougen. He was raised and educated on the family farm west of Blue Earth, where he continued to farm all his life. He served in the U.S. Army and was married to Jean A. Holmseth on July 9, 1955 at South Blue Earth Lutheran...
Eugene Hacklander
Dec 10, 2008
Gene was born April 3, 1935, in Blue Earth, the son Carrol and Ada (Osmundson) Hacklander. He was raised and educated in the farming community in Blue Earth where he was a 1953 graduate of Blue Earth High School. He graduated with a degree in Agriculture from the University of Minnesota and farmed near Blue Earth for many years. He...
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