Obituaries
Kenneth E. Reed
Jan 23, 2010
Kenny was born June 2, 1923, at Wesley, Iowa, the son of Earl and Ellen C. (Ward) Reed. He was raised in the Burt, Iowa and Elmore, MN areas where he graduated from Elmore High School in 1941. He was longtime farmer in the Elmore area and later worked as a hired hand for several other area farmers, retiring in...
Evelyn Erichsrud
Jan 17, 2010
Evelyn was born November 10, 1912 at Hubbard, Iowa the daughter of John H. and Fannie (Scott) Willard. At the age of six she moved to Minnesota with her family. In 1935 she moved to Granada. She worked as a waitress for a number of years in Fairmont and in Miami, Florida during WW II. She was married to Ronald...
Maurice Durkee
Jan 15, 2010
Maurice was born February 16, 1923 in Winnebago, the son of Harold Cady and Amy (Scoles) Durkee. He was raised and educated in Winnebago where he graduated from Winnebago High School. He attended and graduated from the University of Minnesota, where he was a golden gloves boxer and member of the Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity. He served in the Merchant...
Eugene Bell
Jan 12, 2010
Gene was born March 4, 1934, in Jo Daviess Township, MN the son of Walter and Rose (Dau) Bell. He was raised and educated in the Blue Earth and East Chain areas where he was a 1952 graduate of East Chain High School. He atteneded Dunwoody Institute before returning to the Blue Earth area. He was married to Lois M....
Gerhard Kuchenbecker
Jan 6, 2010
Gerhard was born on April 15, 1925 in Elmore Township, the son of Ernest and Ida (Stenzel) Kuchenbecker. Gerhard was raised and educated in the Elmore and Frost area. Gerhard entered the Army in 1945 where he served during WWII in the infantry as a military policeman. While in the service he was a German interpreter and guarded German prisoners...
Howard L. Huff
Jan 2, 2010
Howard Lee Huff, died January 2, 2009 at Tucson Medical Center, Tucson AZ. Howard was the eldest of 3 sons born to Kenneth and Mary (Rethswich) Huff. Born on March 1, 1920 in Carroll, NE. Kenneth and Mary Huff farmed in the Carroll and Pierce Nebraska area where Howard grew up. At the age of 18 Howard left home finding...
K. Arden Alfson
Dec 30, 2009
He was born March 24, 1952, at Blue Earth, MN, the son of Kermit Alfson and Mildred Deidrich. Kermit was a graduate of Blue Earth High School and was active in sports. He was also a graduate of Mankato Vo-Tech College in Mankato. On September. 21, 1974 he married Theresa Eickhoff. They were later divorced. On December. 22 1992 he...
Dorothy Hanson
Dec 29, 2009
Dorothy was born August 21, 1922, at Springfield Township, Iowa, the daughter of Walter J. and Olive M. (Lyon) Dutton. She was raised in Springfield Township, Iowa and in Blue Earth where she attended high school. She lived nearly her entire adult life in Blue Earth, where she was married to Vernon Pete Hanson on July 26, 1941. Pete worked...
Luverne Runyon
Dec 28, 2009
Luverne was born May 13, 1924, at Boone County, Iowa, the son of Glen and Jenny (Bently) Runyon. He was raised and educated in Boone County, Iowa where he was a 1944 graduate of Ogden High School.. He farmed in near Ogden and was married to Ina Earl on February 22, 1946 in Ogden, IA. The couple farmed near Ogden...
Howard W. Eckhardt
Dec 27, 2009
Howard William Eckhardt, son of William F. and Muriel (MacMurtrie) Eckhardt, was born on June 6, 1927 in Prescott Township, Faribault County, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Emerald Township, by Rev. W.E. Heidorn, where he served on the church cemetery board and as an usher. He was also active in the Walther League on local...
James D. Fleming, Sr.
Dec 23, 2009
Jim was born December 9, 1931, at Blue Island, IL, the son of David and Elizabeth (Berger) Fleming. He was raised in Blue Island, Illinois. He graduated from Mt. Carmel High School in Chicago, Illinois. Jim entered the U.S Navy in 1950 and served in the Korean War. He was honorably discharged in 1954.He married Virginia Sanaghan on September 20,...
Stanley Greimann
Dec 10, 2009
Stanley Virgil Greimann, age 80, of N. Branford, CT, formerly of Blue Earth, died on Thursday, December 10, 2009 in Connecticut. Stans birth on October 23, 1929 happened to coincide with the legendary collapse of the stock market. The son of Helen and Fred, Stan grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota where he helped in the barnyard and...
Evelyn A. Malwitz
Dec 3, 2009
Evelyn was born August 27, 1923, at Ogilvie, MN, the daughter of Henry and Emma (Sternke) Mohr. Her family moved to the Bricelyn area in 1932, where she completed her education and was confirmed at North Blue Earth Lutheran Church. She was married to Mark Malwitz on December 21, 1948, and they resided in Blue Earth for their entire lives....
Walter S. Sapa
Nov 28, 2009
Walter was born August 17, 1918, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Paul and Victoria (Pzytec) Sapa. The family moved to Frost when Walter was 12 years old where they farmed. Walter farmed and later served in the U.S. Army during WW II where he served in Iran and in France. He returned to Frost and was married to...
Phyllis L. Owens
Nov 18, 2009
Phyllis was born October 3, 1919, in rural Faribault Co. MN, the daughter of Julius and Bertha (Miller) Welk. She was raised and educated on the family farm and attended Blue Earth High School where she was a 1937 graduate. She was married to Ivan Ike Owens on July 7, 1942 in Longview, Washington. The couple farmed in Faribault Co....
Evan William Eckles
Nov 10, 2009
Evan William Eckles, infant son of William and Karrie Eckles, died prematurely in Rochester, MN on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. He is survived by his parents, his brother, Landen Pederson and grandparents and other family.The Eckles family thanks everyone for their thoughts, concerns and prayers. The family requests no calls of condolence at this time, although web tributes are appreciated.
JoAnne C. Peterson
Nov 5, 2009
JoAnne was born May 27, 1933, in Faribault Co., MN, the daughter of Maynard and Josephine (Sabin) Holmseth. She was raised and educated in Frost where she was a 1951 graduate of Frost High School. She received her Normal Training at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa and began teaching. She taught in rural schools in northern Iowa at Lakota,...
Marvin W. Nelson
Nov 4, 2009
Marvin was born October 6, 1918, in Eagle Grove, Iowa, the son of Nels and Hannah (Larson) Nelson. He was raised and educated in Elmore where he was a 1937 graduate of Elmore High School. He served in the US Army 41st Infantry during WW II where he was stationed in Australia and New Guinea. He returned from the service...
Donald Duane Hannaman
Oct 31, 2009
Don was born May 27, 1928, at Guckeen, MN, the son of John D. and Alice R. (Wilke) Hannaman. He was raised and educated in Guckeen where he worked for local farmers before moving to the Milwaukee, WI area as a teenager. He later returned to Minnesota where he was married to Sharron V. Blomgren on July 19, 1952 in...
Jayleen Marie Olson
Oct 18, 2009
Jayleen was born December 31, 1956, at Blue Earth, MN, the daughter of Jeffery and Marian (Weise) Olson. She was baptized on February 24, 1957 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth. She was later confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Welcome on April 17, 1973. She attended school in Welcome then graduated from Minneapolis South in 1982. Jayleen...
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