Obituaries
Monia Casper
Sep 11, 2010
Monia Marie Casper, age 84, most recently of Battle Lake, formerly of Wichita, KS, died Saturday morning, September 11, 2010, at the Lakeland Hospice House in Fergus Falls. Services and burial will take place Friday, September 17, 2010, in Andover, KS. Survivors include Tony and Cheryl Pelaccio of Battle Lake and their family. Memorials are preferred to the Lakeland Hospice...
Geraldine Nelson
Sep 11, 2010
Geraldine Nelson Geraldine Marie Nelson, 77, a resident of Fergus Falls, died September 11, 2010 at Lake Region Hospital. She was born on February 28, 1933, in St. Paul, the daughter of Oscar J. and Frances S. (Wiegele) Grant. She grew up in the St. Paul area and graduated from South St. Paul High School in 1951. After high school...
Edna Olsen
Sep 9, 2010
Edna Josendal Olsen, 83, died peacefully Thursday, September 9, 2010, in Fergus Falls. She was born November 2, 1926, in Northwood, North Dakota, the daughter of John and Christie (Breivold) Josendal. She graduated from Northwood High School, and then attended Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, before entering Fairview Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis, MN, graduating in 1948. On October...
Sidney Michaelson
Sep 7, 2010
Sidney J. Michaelson, 95, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, September 7, 2010, at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls. He was born April 28, 1915, in Slayton, Minnesota, the son of John and Marie (Hegstad) Michealson. He began his education at Slayton Elementary School, and later attended Fergus Falls High School, graduating in 1932. He was confirmed at...
Mae Youngberg
Sep 2, 2010
Mae L. Youngberg, 88, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, September 2, 2010, at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls. Mae was born on May 23, 1922 in rural Fergus Falls, the daughter of Karl and Clara (Anderson) Hanson. She married Carl Youngberg on June 6, 1942 in Fergus Falls. After their marriage, the couple purchased a farm...
Loretta Nesdahl
Sep 1, 2010
Loretta Irene Nesdahl, 72, of Sebring, Florida, passed away Wednesday, September 1, 2010, in Altamonte Springs, FL. She was born June 25, 1938, to Lawrence and Vera (Winters) Hansen in Duluth, Minnesota, and had been a resident of Sebring since 2004, coming from Ashland, Oregon. She was a bookkeeper; was the first female inducted into the Elks in Oregon and...
Lottie Kollar
Aug 31, 2010
Lottie Vivian Kollar, 82, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, August 31, 2010, at the Pioneer Cottages in Fergus Falls. She was born September 29, 1927, in Columbus, North Dakota, the daughter of Christian and Anna (Ruud) Runningen. She attended school in Columbus, and later Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, until she had to leave to do the cooking at home...
Robert Steiner
Aug 30, 2010
Robert “Bob” Duane Steiner, 79, a resident of Rothsay, died Monday, August 30, 2010, at his home. He was born November 8, 1930, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the son of Charles and Alma (Wallin) Steiner of Andrea Township, rural Foxhome. He was baptized and confirmed at Hamar Lutheran Church in Rothsay. Bob attended country school, District #24, in Akron Township...
Solveig Christopherson
Aug 29, 2010
Solveig E. Christopherson, 94, a resident of River Bend Apartments in Fergus Falls, died Sunday, August 29, 2010, at Sanford Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Solveig was born in the Yukon Territory on March 22, 1916, the youngest of five girls born in a log cabin along the Yukon River to B. Albert and Nora (Pederson) Henrikson. Solveig in Norwegian...
William Ebersviller
Aug 26, 2010
William A. “Bill” Ebersviller, 90, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, August 26, 2010, at the Lakeland Hospice House in Fergus Falls. He was born May 19, 1920, at Golden Valley, North Dakota, the son of William F. and Alwine (Fick) Ebersviller. In 1921 his family moved to Pelican Rapids where his father started a farm implement business. They...
Merelle Engebretson
Aug 25, 2010
Merelle Loretta Engebretson, 88, of Fergus Falls, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at the Shady Oaks Retreat, rural Underwood. She was born December 18, 1921, in Underwood, Minnesota, the daughter of Alfred E. and Sofie M. (Ledding) Gronner. She attended school in Underwood, where she participated in sports, speech, and orchestra, graduating from high school in 1939. She then attended...
Willis Hoyt
Aug 22, 2010
Willis Hoyt, 88, of Underwood, died Sunday, August 22, 2010, at the Battle Lake Good Samaritan Center in Battle Lake. He was born May 8, 1922, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Hoyt Sr. He graduated from Stewart High School in 1939, and was enrolled in Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN until the...
Marilyn Johnson
Aug 21, 2010
Marilyn Ann Johnson, 77, of Dalton, died Saturday, August 21, 2010, at the Lakeland Hospice House in Fergus Falls. She was born November 29, 1932, in Dalton, Minnesota, the daughter of Alvin E. and Emma (Rovang) Larson. She attended grade school in Dalton, and high school in Fergus Falls, graduating in 1950. On May 10, 1953, she married Thomas Johnson...
Allan Eckley
Aug 20, 2010
Allan Orlando Eckley, 90, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Friday, August 20, 2010, at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls. He was born January 18, 1920, in Overly, North Dakota, the son of Olaf and Clara (Rude) Eckley. He grew up on the farm, attending school in Rolette, North Dakota. He moved to South Dakota where he worked...
Leona Gacke
Aug 18, 2010
Leona Ellen Gacke, 82, a resident of rural Erhard, and formerly of Luverne, Minnesota, died Wednesday, August 18, 2010, at her home. She was born to Clarence and Carrie (Jutting) Dammann on February 23rd (her father’s birthday), 1928, in Little Rock, Iowa. She attended a rural school and then the high school in Little Rock. She graduated in 1946. Leona...
Frieda Miller
Aug 16, 2010
Frieda Johanna Miller, 99, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Monday, August 16, 2010, at the PioneerCare Center in Fergus Falls. She was born May 12, 1911, at the Hensch homestead in Western Township of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, the daughter of Henry and Johanna (Kohnke) Hensch Sr. On September 27, 1933, she married Clarence C. Miller at Immanuel Lutheran...
Prentice Ness
Aug 16, 2010
Prentice Howard “Bud” Ness, 92, died Monday, August 16, 2010, at the PioneerCare Center in Fergus Falls. Prentice Howard Ness, known to most of you as “Bud” was born March 20, 1918, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, to his proud parents Daniel and Anne (Otteson) Ness. He grew up in the Fergus Falls area where he attended school. Bud served with...
Eric Brown
Aug 6, 2010
Eric Wayne Brown, 47, a resident of Fergus Falls, died suddenly on Friday, August 6, 2010, at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls after a brief battle with cancer. Eric was born on November 15, 1962 to Jesse and Edith (Lee) Brown at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Eric was a fun-loving person and loved people. He was a...
Bernielle Gast
Aug 6, 2010
Bernielle Juanita Gast, 90, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Friday, August 6, 2010, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. She was born August 22, 1919, at rural Wyndmere, North Dakota, the daughter of Frank O. and Minnie (Nelson) Johnson. She was baptized and confirmed at Bethel Lutheran Church in Wahpeton, ND. After the death of her mother when Bernielle was...
Kathryn Olson
Aug 3, 2010
Kathryn M. Olson, 100, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, August 3, 2010, at her home under the care of Lakeland Hospice. She was born March 27, 1910, near Rowley, Iowa, the daughter of Warren and Ethel (Grover) Junkins. At the age of two she and her parents moved to a farm near Hartland, Minnesota. She was baptized and...
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