Obituaries
Veona Sletten
Dec 4, 2013
Veona Sletten, 88, of Underwood, died Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. She was born June 13, 1925, in Popple, Minnesota, the daughter of Waino and Elizabeth (Pellinen) Harju. She was baptized at Faith Lutheran Church on December 11, 1925. She graduated from Grand Rapids High School in 1943, and then from Bemidji State Teachers College in...
Selvin Rovelstad
Dec 3, 2013
Selvin Henry Rovelstad, 89, a resident of Underwood, died Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at his home, under the care of Lakeland Hospice. He was born October 28, 1924, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the son of Harold and Helga (Haugen) Rovelstad. He was baptized and confirmed at Sverdrup Lutheran Church. Selvin grew up in Fergus Falls until the family moved to...
Valjeanne Johansen
Dec 2, 2013
Valjeanne Estelle Johansen, 73, of Underwood, Minnesota, died Monday, December 2, 2013, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. She was born August 18, 1940, in Carlisle Township of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, the daughter of Walter and Esther (Trenne) Rose. The family later moved to a farm north of Underwood where Valjeanne grew up with her sister and two brothers. She...
Mary Schreiber
Nov 30, 2013
Mary Michele Corcoran Schreiber, 58, of Foxhome, Minnesota, passed away suddenly at her home on Saturday, November 30, 2013. She was born June 27, 1955, in Bessemer, Michigan, the daughter of Edward and Bonnie (Gunderman) Corcoran. She grew up in Iron Mountain, MI, graduating from high school there in 1973. She attended Michigan State University in Lansing, and graduated from...
Kenwood Kolle
Nov 30, 2013
Kenwood Oliver Kolle, age 71, of Fergus Falls, died unexpectedly on Saturday, November 30, 2013, at his home. Ken was born to Oliver and Irene (Duenow) Kolle on July 2, 1942 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at Rock Prairie Lutheran Church in rural Elbow Lake, MN. He graduated from Elbow Lake High School in 1960 and...
Marjorie Delzer
Nov 25, 2013
Marjorie Emily Delzer, 84, of Fergus Falls, died Monday, November 25, 2013, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. She was born on October 27, 1929 in Friberg Township of Otter Tail County the daughter of Emil and Emilia (Schultz) Thom. She grew up and attended country school in Friberg Township. Marjorie married Lester Balken in 1946. Together they traveled the United...
Robert "Bob" Dolan
Nov 19, 2013
Robert “Bob” Curtis Dolan, 84, of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls. He was born December 14, 1928, in Stanley, North Dakota, the son of Edward and Ann (Teichrow) Dolan. He was baptized at White Earth, North Dakota in 1934, and confirmed at Zion Lutheran of Hartland, North Dakota. He grew up...
Steven Honrud
Nov 19, 2013
Steven Michael Honrud, 47, of Erhard, died Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He was born October 20, 1966, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the son of Michael and Peggy (Fleming) Honrud. He grew up in Erhard, graduating from Pelican Rapids High School in 1984. He then attended Alexandria Technical College, where he earned his...
Leonard Krause
Nov 18, 2013
Leonard C. Krause, 92, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Monday, November 18, 2013, at his home. Leonard was born October 20, 1921 in Mantador, North Dakota, the son of Arthur and Meta (Rippie) Krause. He attended school in Mantador and Dwight, ND. He served in the United States Navy during World War II in the South Pacific on a...
Robert Tenneson
Nov 16, 2013
Robert “Uncle Bob” Irwin Tenneson, 99, of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, November 16, 2013, at Woodland Lodge in Fergus Falls. He was born June 16, 1914, in Blair, Wisconsin, the son of Joseph and Gertie (Sather) Tenneson. He grew up in Harwood, North Dakota, and Carlisle, Minnesota, where he attended school. He later attended classes for Boeing Plant employees. Bob...
Helen Hagstrom
Nov 16, 2013
Helen Brummond Kempfer Hagstrom, 93, of Foxhome, MN, slipped quietly away from her earthly body to join her Lord and Savior on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at the Pioneer Senior Cottages in Breckenridge. She was born February 8, 1920 to Theodore and Margaret (McMorrow) Brummond in Hankinson, North Dakota where her childhood and school years were spent. She graduated from...
Stanley Norgren
Nov 16, 2013
Stanley “Buddy” C. Norgren, 90, of Elizabeth, died Saturday, November 16, 2013, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He was born March 2, 1923, on the Norgren family farm near Elizabeth, Minnesota, the eighth of nine children born to C.O. and Mary (Laugen) Norgren. He was baptized, confirmed, and married at the Augustana Lutheran Church in Elizabeth. He...
James Money
Nov 14, 2013
James E. "Jim" Money, 94, a resident of Fergus Falls, and formerly of Topeka, Kansas, died Thursday, November 14, 2013, at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. James ‘Jim’ Erskine Money was born on December 22, 1918, the fifth of six children, to Charles and Sarah ‘Sally’ [Hadden] Money of Winchester, Tennessee. As a child, his family moved...
Sharon Westergard
Nov 14, 2013
Sharon Vonice Westergard, 74, a resident of rural Erhard, died Thursday, November 14, 2013, at her home under the care of her family and Lakeland Hospice. She was born September 23, 1939, in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, the daughter of Selma (Johnson) and Henry Ouren. She grew up in the Erhard area, attending Pelican Rapids High School. On June 8, 1957,...
Harold Neuman
Nov 9, 2013
Harold Robert Neuman, 97, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, died Saturday, November 9, 2013, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls where he resided for the last three years. Harold was the oldest of four children born to Rudy and Gertie (Olson) Neuman of rural Fergus Falls. He was born on May 28, 1916 in Wright Memorial Hospital, Fergus Falls, MN. (Now on...
Lucille Phillips Lidbeck
Nov 9, 2013
Lucille (Phillips) Lidbeck, 75, a resident of Fergus Falls, went to her heavenly home on November 9, 2013, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, surrounded by her loving family. She was born December 3, 1937, the daughter of Howard Edgar and Alice Lauretta (Howell) Eastman, in Browns Valley, MN. Her birth took place at her great grandmother’s home (Amanda Behrns)...
Bernice Kvern
Nov 7, 2013
Bernice N. Kvern, 96, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, November 7, 2013 at the Broen Home in Fergus Falls. She was born December 25, 1916, in Gardner, IL, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Eide. She grew up in the Carlisle area, graduating from Fergus Falls High School. On June 8, 1935 Bernice was married to Alfred Kvern...
Judith Otnes
Nov 5, 2013
Judith Ann Marie Otnes, 79, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, November 5, 2013, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls. She was born November 9, 1933, on a farm near Redwood Falls, Minnesota, the daughter of Henry and Arlene (Stewig) Hauptli. She attended school at District 101 of Redwood County, before moving to the Wendell area in 1942....
Michael Burley
Oct 31, 2013
Michael Robert Burley, 57, of Erhard, died Thursday, October 31, 2013, at the Broen Home in Fergus Falls. Michael was born on February 27, 1956 in Two Harbors, OR, the son of Theodore and Violet (Galbreath) Burley. He grew up travelling with his family during his childhood and eventually came to reside in the Fergus Falls area. In 1975 he...
Michael Olson
Oct 27, 2013
Michael A. Olson, 69, a longtime resident of the Battle Lake Good Samaritan Center, passed away on Sunday, October 27, 2013, at the center. Michael was born February 2, 1944, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the second child born to Lloyd and Jeanette (Bergtoll) Olson. He had an older brother that was stillborn, and he has a younger sister, Kathleen. Due...
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