Obituaries
Mae Hansen
Feb 16, 2008
Mae Frances Hansen, 86, formerly of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, February 16, 2008, at The Cottage in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mae was born August 6, 1921, on the family farm near Sebeka, MN, the daughter of Eddie Livingston and Bertha May Lloyd. She attended country school District 18 in Wadena County, High School in Sebeka, and Teachers Training School in Staples,...
Isaiah Anderson
Feb 16, 2008
Isaiah Anderson, age 23, of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, February 16, 2008, as a result of an automobile accident, near Fergus Falls. He was born on July 25, 1984, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the son of Paul E. and Lori L. (Sabin) Anderson. He was baptized at Bethesda Lutheran Brethren Church in Eau Claire and was confirmed at Bethel Lutheran...
Doris Griepentrog
Feb 14, 2008
Doris Griepentrog Doris Griepentrog, 90, of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, February 14, 2008, at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls. She was born March 10, 1917, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Emil and Anna (Steinberger) Schleske. She grew up in Friberg Township and attended rural school. As a young woman she worked in Fergus Falls at a local restaurant...
Clifford Shol
Feb 9, 2008
Clifford Shol, age 99, of Underwood, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls, MN. He was born on December 1, 1908, at his home in Friberg Township of Otter Tail County, to Carl and Tillie (Kugler) Shol. He attended country school through 4th grade, when he had to...
Jeffery Moe
Feb 8, 2008
Jeffery Paul Moe, 35, of Bloomington, Minnesota, passed away Friday, February 8, 2008, at his home in Bloomington. He was born May 10, 1972, in Hastings, Minnesota, the son of Lon and Sonja (Sneva) Moe. Jeff attended Adams Elementary School and graduated from Fergus Falls High School in 1990. He attended Hennepin Technical College studying Landscape Design. He worked for...
Shelly Sjolie
Feb 5, 2008
Shelly Dureen Stenson Sjolie, a resident of the Twin Cities, and formerly of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at her home under the care of her family. She was born July 25, 1956 in Perham, Minnesota, the daughter of Howard and LouAnn (Hanson) Sjolie. She was baptized at Bethel Free Lutheran Church in Pelican Rapids, and confirmed and...
Esther Dubbels
Feb 3, 2008
Esther Luella Dubbels, 87, of Horace, North Dakota, and most recently of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, February 3, 2008, at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls. She was born January 12, 1921, in Henning, Minnesota, the daughter of Herman and Sophie (Wendte) Bolland. She was baptized January 30, 1921, and confirmed June 10, 1934, at St. Paul Lutheran Church...
Fern Dahl
Feb 2, 2008
Fern Eleanor Dahl, age 93, of Fergus Falls died Saturday morning February 2nd, 2008 at the Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls. She was born on January 23, 1915 in Friberg Township of Otter Tail County, Minnesota the daughter of Ellsworth and Lucy (Kugler) Olds. Fern was baptized and confirmed in the Missouri Synod faith. As a child she attended...
Oressa Runningen
Jan 31, 2008
Oressa Myra Runningen, 91, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, January 31, 2008, at the Pioneer Retirement Community in Fergus Falls. She was born October 24, 1916 in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, the twin daughter of Olaf and Gunda (Brekke) Sorenson. She grew up in rural Elbow Lake on the family farm and attended country school. She was confirmed at...
Merlyn Jack Iversen
Jan 30, 2008
Merlyn D. "Jack" Iversen, 78, of Fergus Falls, died Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at his home on Pebble Lake. He was born March 22, 1929, at St. Luke's Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the son of Thorvald and Pauline (Eckerman) Iversen. He attended West Central School of Agriculture in Morris, Minnesota, graduating in 1945. On June 12, 1948, he married...
Clifford Whitman
Jan 30, 2008
Clifford Edward Whitman, 57, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at his home. He was born July 28, 1950, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the son of Edward and Dorothy (Peters) Whitman. He graduated from Moorhead High School in 1968. Following high school he served in the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam War from 1969...
Gilman Shirley
Jan 29, 2008
Gilman Morvil Shirley, 96, a resident of rural Rothsay, died Tuesday, January 29, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Center in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. He was born December 9, 1911, in Erhards Grove Township of Otter Tail County, the second child of Martin and Emilie (Granrud) Shirley. He was baptized and confirmed at South Immanuel Lutheran Church. Gilman attended rural school...
Shirley Dewey
Jan 27, 2008
Shirley Ann Dewey, 71, a lifelong resident of Fergus Falls, died unexpectedly on Sunday, January 27, 2008 from a fast form of cancer while a patient at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. She was born February 5, 1936, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the daughter of Elmer and Genevieve (Hagen) Halvorson. She grew up in Fergus Falls, graduating from...
Darrell Meis
Jan 25, 2008
Darrell Duane Meis, 74, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Friday January 25, 2008, at the MeritCare Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. He was born September 28, 1933, at Wheaton, Minnesota, the son of Theodore "Dick" and Lilian (Fisher) Meis. The family moved to the Battle Lake area in 1934 and to Western Township near Fergus Falls in 1940. He...
Mabel Hanson
Jan 17, 2008
Mabel C. Hanson, 93, formerly of Pelican Rapids, died Thursday, January 17, 2008, at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Mabel Catherine Hanson was born on November 14th, 1914 near Glyndon, Minnesota to Torjus and Kathryn (Anstadt) Langlie, the oldest of four children. On November 17, 1934 she married Sigvold Hanson in Moorhead. For several years she worked...
Norma Anderson
Jan 15, 2008
Norma Gladys Anderson, 73, of Elbow Lake, passed away Tuesday, January 15, 2008, from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) at the Broen Memorial Home in Fergus Falls, Minnesota where she had resided for the last 5 1/2 months. She was born January 17, 1934, the eldest daughter of Nels and Genevieve (Thompson) Johnson at her grandparents, Ole and Annie Marie Johnson's,...
Shirley Carlson
Jan 13, 2008
Shirley Mae Joan Warholm Carlson, 80, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, January 13, 2008, at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. She was born October 19, 1927, to Harold and Bertha (Ness) Warholm, in Minneapolis, MN. She was baptized and later confirmed at Cross of Glory Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Center, MN. Shirley grew up in Northeast...
Grace Moje
Jan 13, 2008
Grace Heare Moje, 52, of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, January 13, 2008, at her home in Fergus Falls. She was born September 16, 1955, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Charles and Anne (Edwards) Heare. As a child the family moved to Beaumont, Texas, where she attended school, graduating from high school there in 1974. Grace attended the University of...
James "Jim" Schmidt
Jan 13, 2008
James C. "Jim" Schmidt, 76, a resident of Fergus Falls, died peacefully surrounded by family Sunday, January 13, 2008 at his home in Fergus Falls with the support of hospice. He was born August 18, 1931, in Neosho, Missouri, the only child of George and Edna Gladys (Greathouse) Schmidt. His early years were spent in Washington Courthouse, Ohio. The family...
Elder Engebretson
Jan 10, 2008
Elder Engebretson, 90, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, January 10, 2008, at the Pioneer Retirement Community in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He was born June 29, 1917, in Havre, Montana, the son of Gustav and Katherine (Torgusson) Engebretson. He attended school in rural Aurdal Township near Fergus Falls through the eighth grade. He farmed with his dad on several...
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