Obituaries
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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