Obituaries
Bernice Reese
Mar 10, 2008
Bernice I. Reese, 95, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Monday, March 10, 2008, at the Pioneer Retirement Community in Fergus Falls. She was born August 28, 1912, to Garfield and Alma Peterson at their farm near Maddock, ND. She was baptized at Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Bernice graduated from Benson County Agricultural Training School (high school) in 1931, and then...
Harley Kantrud
Mar 9, 2008
Harley A. Kantrud, 89, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, March 9, 2008, at the Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls. He was born July 13, 1918 in Trondhjem Township of Otter Tail County, the son of Edwin and Minnie (Granrud) Kantrud. He was baptized and confirmed in Norwegian at South Immanuel Lutheran Church. He attended country school in...
Donald Ysteboe
Mar 8, 2008
Donald B. Ysteboe, 82, a resident of Fergus Falls, formerly of Moorhead, died Saturday, March 8, 2008 at the Pioneer Retirement Community in Fergus Falls. Donald was born on January 23, 1926 in Perley, Minnesota, the son of Harold and Stella (Hviding) Ystebo. He graduated from Hendrum High School in 1943. After high school, he entered the United States Navy...
Cullen Hansen
Mar 7, 2008
Cullen Norman Hansen, 86, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Friday, March 7, 2008, at the Broen Memorial Home. He was born on March 7, 1922, in Fargo, North Dakota, the son of Carl & Gina (Norman) Hansen. He attended grade school in Bismarck and in 1936, he moved with his family to Underwood where he was confirmed at Sverdrup...
Ruth Aune
Mar 6, 2008
Ruth O. G. Aune was born on the home farm at Underwood, MN, June 29, 1918 to Ole O and Bertina Nelson Aune. She died at the Broen Memorial Home, Fergus Falls, MN on March 6, 2008 at the age of 89 years. She was baptized as an infant and confirmed at Rindal Lutheran Church. She went through the first...
Mike Frich
Mar 4, 2008
Douglas Michael Frich, 60, a resident of Fergus Falls and a former employee of Fergus Falls State Hospital, died Tuesday, March 4, 2008, at his home under care of Lakeland Hospice. Mike was born in Minneapolis on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1947, the first of three sons born to Laurilla May and Douglas Milton Frich. He grew up in...
Anne Stenerson
Mar 2, 2008
Anne O. Stenerson, 96, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, March 2, 2008 at the Pioneer Retirement Community in Fergus Falls. Anne O. Loken was born September 13, 1911 in Carlisle, Minnesota, the daughter of Peter and Christine (Jacobson) Loken. She was baptized and confirmed in Norwegian at Hedemarken Lutheran Church, rural Carlisle. She attended eight grades of school...
Bud Engen
Mar 2, 2008
W. W. "Bud" Engen, 79, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, March 2, 2008 at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo. He was born April 10, 1928 in Clitherall, Minnesota, the son of Alfred and Olive (Wilson) Engen. He served with the Marine Corps during World War II. On June 9, 1948 he married Phyllis Dobbs in Henning, Minnesota. Bud was...
Sheila Siken
Feb 29, 2008
Sheila Jo Siken, 44, of Lodi, Calif., died Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 in California. She was born to Wallace and Evelyn Kluck on Sept. 20, 1963, in Breckenridge. She graduated in 1982 from Rothsay High School, where she was active in basketball and volleyball. She graduated from Minnesota State University, Moorhead in 1986. Sheila married Brian Siken on Aug. 30,...
Jane Jensen
Feb 27, 2008
Jane Kathleen Jensen, 70, of Fergus Falls, died Wednesday, February 27, 2008, at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls under the care of Lakeland Hospice. She was born June 23, 1937, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Frederick and Frances (Foss) Vogel. She was baptized and confirmed at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, Fergus Falls. She attended McKinley...
Russell Haagenson
Feb 26, 2008
Russell D. Haagenson, 84, a resident of Fergus Falls, died peacefully Tuesday, February 26, 2008, at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls. Russell Dewain was born October 19, 1923, in rural Paynesville, MN, the son of Melvin and Nellie Haagenson. He was baptized and confirmed at Nordland Lutheran Church, rural Paynesville. He served in the U.S. Army during World...
Robert Hoffmann
Feb 25, 2008
Robert F. Hoffmann, 86, of Maine Township, died Monday, February 25, 2008, at the Battle Lake Good Samaritan Center in Battle Lake, Minnesota. He was born April 6, 1921 in Brainerd, MN the son of Henry and Ellen (Gedosch) Hoffmann. Bob grew up in Brainerd, graduating from high school in 1939 and Brainerd Community College in 1941. In 1942 he...
Agnes Leitch
Feb 25, 2008
Agnes Martha Helene (Drevlow) Leitch, 93, a resident of Fergus Falls, died peacefully Monday, February 25, 2008, at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls, MN. She was born September 19, 1914, near Long Prairie, Minnesota, the daughter of Otto Carl and Alvina Helene Sophia (Schmidt) Asmus. She grew up in Long Prairie Township of Todd County. On November 30,...
Caren Ronning
Feb 25, 2008
Caren Ronning, 42, of Barnesville, Minnesota, died Monday, February 25, 2008, at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls. She was born June 1, 1965, in Mandan, North Dakota, the daughter of Donald and Dorothy (Samuelson) Ronning. At the age of five she moved to Fergus Falls with her family, where she attended school. She was confirmed at Augustana Lutheran Church...
Julia Cooper
Feb 25, 2008
Julia Cooper, 90, died Monday, February 25, 2008, at the Pioneer Retirement Community, Fergus Falls. She was born October 5, 1917, in Grant County, the daughter of Harry and Lillie (Johnson) Stavos. She grew up with her brothers, sisters and parents on a farm and attended rural school through the 8th grade. On September 27, 1941, she married Jacob Cooper...
Walter Christianson
Feb 25, 2008
Remembering the life of... Walter Erwin Christianson, 86, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Monday, February 25, 2008, at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls. He was born September 6, 1921, in rural Norman County near Fertile, Minnesota, the son of Carl and Clara (Rude) Christianson. He attended school in rural Fertile and later Minot, ND, and graduated in...
Louise Nelson
Feb 21, 2008
Louise A. Nelson Louise A. Nelson, 75, of Fargo, ND, formerly of Battle Lake, MN, died on Thursday, February 21, 2008, at St. Francis Healthcare Campus in Breckenridge, MN. Louise was born on March 1, 1932, in Leaf Mountain Township in Ottertail County, the daughter of Albin and Hazel (Bjork) Listrom. She was baptized and confirmed at Leaf Mountain Lutheran...
Milford Nelson
Feb 21, 2008
Milford Clayton Nelson, 84, a resident of Aurdal Township, rural Fergus Falls, died Thursday, February 21, 2008, at his home. He was born October 10, 1923, near Nashua, Montana, the son of Conrad and Emelia (Eliason) Nelson. His parents homesteaded in Montana in 1915, returning to the family farm in Aurdal Township in 1935, which was homesteaded in 1868 by...
Helen Duenow
Feb 20, 2008
Helen I. Duenow, 71, of Elizabeth, died Wednesday, February 20, 2008, at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. She was born October 23, 1936, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Oscar and Lillian (Peterson) Trosvig. Helen grew up in Fergus Falls, attending school there. She was baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls. On March 6,...
Gertrude Loken
Feb 16, 2008
Gertrude (Mrs. Alfred) Loken 94, a former Carlisle, MN resident died Saturday February 16, 2008 at the ARK - Hospice Care Center in Anoka, MN. She was born on May 19, 1913 in Owatonna, MN the daughter of George and Blanche (Crippen) Burke. She moved with her family to Leal, ND where the family farmed until June of 1917 when...
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