Obituaries
Omer K. Murray
Feb 6, 2008
He was born June 11, 1912, at Dixon, Illinois, the son Frank Murray and Winifred Wadsworth. He then moved to Marna and attended a one room school and graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1929. Omer began working for the Standard Oil Co. in 1933. On December. 28, 1938 he married Una Clara Petersen in Clarks Grove, Mn. In...
Terrance W. Breitenfeld
Feb 3, 2008
Terry was born May 14, 1939, in Elmore, the son of Arnold E. and Lillian E. (Thompson) Breitenfeld.He was raised and educated in Elmore where he was a 1958 graduate of Elmore High School. Following school he mowed lawns in Elmore before becoming a resident of the MN State Hospital. He also live in Faribault and Minneapolis for several years...
Solveig Lee
Jan 30, 2008
She was born May 6, 1921, at Haugesand, Norway, the daughter of Svend and Marie (Mikkleson) Bjornson.She came from Norway in 1923 where she was raised and educated in East Chain and Joice, Iowa. She worked as a nurses aide at Park Hospital in Mason City, Iowa before her marriage to Clifford Lee on November 8, 1942 in Joice, Iowa....
Larry O. Cassens
Jan 29, 2008
He was born September 21, 1945, in Blue Earth, the son of Onnen B. and Ann M. (Pudwell) Cassens.Larry was raised in the Huntley area where he was a 1964 graduate of Huntley High School. Following graduation he farmed on his family farm and was later married to Susan R. ?Sue? True on April 22, 1966 at the East Chain...
Rose P. Swingdoff
Jan 27, 2008
She was born March 30, 1909, at Martin Co., MN, the daughter of Nelson and Annie (Kinney) Roberts.She was raised and educated in the Granada and Guckeen areas where she attended country schools. Rose was married to Richard F. Swingdoff on June 24, 1930 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth. The couple lived all there adult lives in...
Audrey E. Olson
Jan 26, 2008
She was born June 30, 1922, at Bricelyn, MN, the daughter of Art & Marie Lindeman and was baptized at Bricelyn Lutheran Church. She was raised and educated in Bricelyn where she was a 1940 graduate of Bricelyn High School. She attended Mankato State and the Minnesota School of Business before going to Washington DC to be a secretary during...
Bertha Beem
Jan 22, 2008
Bertha was born June 17, 1908, at Jordan, Minnesota, the daughter of Peter and Bertha (Janz) Wieben.She was raised in the Jordan area and was married to William F. Gerres on February 22, 1930. The couple farmed in the Lydia, Minnesota area and later in the New Prague and Henderson areas. Bertha was later married to W. Murl Beem on...
Evalyn J. Hansen
Jan 22, 2008
Evalyn was born June 17, 1919, at Hayfield, MN, the daughter of John and Margaret (Maricle) Knapp.She graduated from Austin, MN High School in the mid 1930''s and late taught school briefly before her marriage to Herbert A. Hansen on February 5, 1939 in Chariton, Iowa. The couple farmed in the Albert Lea area before moving to Hayward in 1946,...
Alene Graue
Jan 19, 2008
Alene was born August 8, 1928, at Dell, Minnesota, the daughter of Alfred and Glennie(Amundson)Graue. As a young girl she moved to Frost. Alene was baptized and confirmed at the Dell Lutheran Church and was a member of the United Lutheran Church in Frost. She did housework, baby sitting, and wrote a newspaper article for the Frost news. Alene loved...
Vernon Smith
Jan 16, 2008
He was born September 20, 1922, in Vevay, Indiana, the son of Henry and Lucy (Aldridge) Smith. He was preceded in death by his parents and four siblings, Minnie B. Lane, Pauline Jacobs, Martha Reed and his baby brother, Jay Smith. A World War II Veteran, he served as a ball-turret gunner with the 449th Heavy Bomb Group (the Flying...
Wayne Whitney
Jan 15, 2008
Wayne was born October 3, 1925, at Delavan, MN, the son of William & Nellie (Wallace) Whitney, Sr.He was a nearly lifelong resident of Delavan, graduating from Delavan High School in 1943. Following school he worked on his family farm. He was married to Helen M. Langworthy on November 11, 1945 at the Delavan United Methodist Church. The couple farmed...
Mildred C. Cherland
Jan 6, 2008
Mildred was born July 19, 1913, in rural Faribault County, MN, the daughter of Andrew and Anna (Johnson) Kallestad.She was raised and educated in the Blue Earth area where she was a 1932 graduate of Blue Earth High School. After high school she took her teachers training in Blue Earth and then taught country school near Frost. She was married...
Joyce E. Ripley
Dec 26, 2007
Joyce Elizabeth More Ripley was born July 19, 1921, in Pilot Grove Township, Minnesota, the daughter of George H. and Alice (Lowery) More. She attended country school through the 8th-grade and graduated from Elmore High School in 1939. She was confirmed at the Elmore Methodist Church. After graduation she ran a dress shop in Elmore with her sister, Jean, for...
Dustin J. Volz
Dec 21, 2007
Dusty was born June 8, 1980, at Blue Earth, MN, the son John G. and Rita C. (Pries) Volz.He was raised and educated in Elmore where he was a 1999 graduate of Blue Earth Area High School. He attended South Dakota State University where he earned his bachelors degree in Animal Science in 2006. Since June 2006 he had worked...
Frances Rae Weis
Dec 21, 2007
Fran was born on February 9, 1933 in Saginaw, Michigan the daughter of Raymond and Cleoria Frances (Oberg) Emmerich. In 1946 she moved to Madison, MN then to Hampton, Iowa in 1950. After graduating from Hampton High School in 1951, she attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa for one year before transferring to ST. Joseph?s Mercy School...
Regina Mikolai
Dec 19, 2007
Regina (Reggie) was born on August 19, 1910 near East Chain, Minnesota, to Mary and Joseph Mikolai, the fifth of 11 children. She attended East Chain school. She worked at various jobs in Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado. She later lived in Blue Earth, MN until her mother died in 1970 when she moved to Minneapolis, where she lived until three...
Ronald Shure
Dec 11, 2007
He was born September 19, 1931, at Albert Lea, MN, the son of Martin & Winnifred (Hoveland) Shure.He was raised in Frost where he was a 1949 graduate of Frost High School. He served on a destroyer in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He returned to Frost where he worked for the P.H. Thompson Construction Company. He was...
Charlotte Robb
Dec 6, 2007
She was born February 1, 1924, in Algona, Iowa, the daughter of Oliver and Alice (Siep) Elmore.Charlotte attended country schools in Blue Earth. Following her education she did housekeeping and worked the Winnebago Canning Company before her marriage to Gerald T. Robb on March 3, 1950 in Mankato. She was a farm wife and homemaker for several years. Following her...
Duane L. Murphy
Dec 2, 2007
Duane Murphy was born on July 22nd, 1932 in Blue Earth to William and Isabelle (Willette) Murphy. He graduated from Blue Earth High School in 1950 and worked in the area until joining the army in 1954. He was discharged in 1956. He met and married Patricia Farrow on February 6th, 1958 at Sacred Heart Church in Ledyard, Iowa. They...
Agnes C. Bjorklund
Dec 1, 2007
Agnes was born April 20, 1910, in Blue Earth, the daughter of Otto and Hedwig (Kienast) Rajewsky.She was raised and educated in the Blue Earth area where she attended Blue Earth schools. She was married to Paul "Oscar" Bjorklund. Agnes had worked in the parts department of the Ford Tractor Dealer, at the Maid Rite, was a night operator with...
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