Obituaries
Wesley Balken
Aug 30, 2021
Wesley Balken, 68, of rural Erhard, died Monday, August 30, 2021. How do you squeeze a lifetime into just 68 short years? Wes Balken did it, but unfortunately, he didn’t live to talk about it. So, it’s now up to his family to carry on his incredible talent for storytelling, stretching the truth, and just plain shooting the … well...
Nellie Jenson
Aug 28, 2021
Nellie Grace (Mandler) Jenson, 95, of Fergus Falls, passed away on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at LB Broen Home in Fergus Falls. Nellie moved to the Broen Home on August 25, 2020. Nellie was born April 21, 1926, in Streeter, ND, the daughter of Charles and Effie (Peterson) Mandler. The family later moved to the Amor area. On November 30,...
John Boen
Aug 28, 2021
John Harold Boen, 91, a resident of Pelican Rapids, MN, died Saturday, August 28, 2021 in his home, on the farm, under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley. John Harold Boen was born on May 25, 1930 to Tov (Thor) and Inge Mabel (Maasjo) Boen at Sattersmoen Hospital, in Pelican Rapids, MN. He was baptized and confirmed...
Eugene Gage
Aug 26, 2021
Eugene Allan Gage, 89, of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, August 26, 2021, at his residence. Eugene was born November 1, 1931, to George and Gladys (Pike) Gage in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He had close ties to his family. He grew up on a farm and learned to do everything from maintaining farm equipment to carpentry. He was the youngest in his...
Dean Newton
Aug 21, 2021
Dean P. Newton, 92 of rural Carlisle, died Saturday, August 21, 2021 at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Dean was born June 15, 1929, in Fergus Falls to Leonard and Dorothy (Putnam) Newton. He attended Madison Elementary School and Fergus Falls Senior High School, graduating in 1947. He went on to attend the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus, graduating...
Gary Jasmer
Aug 21, 2021
Gary Ronald Jasmer, 76, of Otter Tail, died Saturday, August 21, 2021, at the Fargo Veteran’s Hospital. Gary was born November 10, 1944, in Fergus Falls to Frank and Gertrude (Teberg) Jasmer. His family moved to rural Blue Grass of Wadena County and then to Wadena where he attended St. Ann Catholic School. At the age of 15 his family...
Mary Ann Anderson
Aug 17, 2021
Mary Ann (Peters) Anderson, 98, of Edina, formerly of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at Sunrise of Edina Senior Living. Mary Ann was born May 18, 1923, in Minneapolis, MN, to Karl and Ethel (Youngren) Peters. She attended Greeley grade school, Wendell Phillips Junior High, and graduated from South High in 1941. She was elected to the National...
Patricia Teberg
Aug 16, 2021
Patricia Roscella (Bauman) Teberg, 85, a resident of Fergus Falls, formerly of Erhard, died Monday, August 16, 2021, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls after a courageous battle with esophageal cancer. Patricia (Pat) was born march 11, 1936, in rural Redwood County, Lamberton, MN, to Tony and Sally (Albertson) Bauman. Pat graduated from Maynard, MN High School in 1954. Pat was...
Danny J. Teske
Aug 14, 2021
Danny J. Teske, 64, of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, August 14, 2021, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls. Danny Joel Teske was born in Appleton, MN, on October 9, 1956, to Delford and Viola Teske, the youngest of four brothers. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Appleton and graduated from Appleton High School in 1975....
Marlys Kilde
Aug 13, 2021
Marlys Kilde, 87, died Friday, August 13, 2021, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls. Marlys Mae Kilde (Herman) was born on June 14, 1934 in Ellsworth, Minnesota—the first of three daughters born to Martha and Ralph Herman—before moving to Campbell where she lived with her family. She attended Fergus Falls Senior High her senior year of high school where...
Ralph Bergquist
Aug 12, 2021
Ralph James Bergquist, 88, of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, August 12, 2021, at the Minnesota Veteran’s Home in Fergus Falls. Ralph was born on March 27, 1933 in Seattle, Washington, the son of John and Eva (Leberg) Bergquist. He graduated from Detroit Lakes High School in 1952. Upon graduation he entered the United States Army and served in Korea. He...
Wade Reed
Aug 8, 2021
Wade Jay Reed, 48, of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, August 8, 2021, at Sanford in Fargo. Wade was born in Sidney, Montana on May 10, 1973, to Gerry and Jean (Jaenisch) Reed. By autumn of that year, he and his parents were living in Elbow Lake, MN. He spent three and a half years making many friends, young and old,...
Wayne Niemela
Aug 8, 2021
Wayne A. Niemela, 72, of Dent, died Sunday, August 8, 2021, at Sanford in Fargo. Wayne was born June 12, 1949, in Hillsboro, ND to Arnold and Norma (Curtis) Niemela. He graduated from North High in 1968. On July 24, 1968, Wayne married Jean Johnston in Watertown, SD. He was employed by Tilsner Carton Company and also Industrial Finishing Services....
Shari Lynch
Aug 4, 2021
Shari Lynn (Drechsel) Lynch, 56, of Chillicothe, MO, died Wednesday, August 4, 2021, at her residence. Graveside Service: 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 9, 2021, at Tingvold Cemetery, Underwood, MN Clergy: Reverend Tammy Jacobson Arrangements provided by the Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls Online condolences may be sent to www.olsonfuneralhome.com
Craige Jensen
Aug 4, 2021
Craige Robert Jensen, 72, of Underwood, died Wednesday, August 4, 2021, at the Battle Lake Good Samaritan. Craige was born August 14, 1948, to Kenneth and Mary (Wheeler) Jensen in Watertown, WI. He attended Ixonia Elementary School and Oconomowoc High School. He served in the United States Army from August 1967 to June 1970, during the Vietnam War. He was...
Ernest "Ernie" Adamec
Aug 1, 2021
Ernest John “Ernie” Adamec, 65, of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, August 1, 2021, at his residence. Ernest was born July 24, 1956, to Ernest and MaryAnn (Gobernatz) Adamec in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Park Rapids High School in 1974. He went on to attend Detroit Lakes Technical College for Auto Service and Foreign Car Mechanics and also Bemidji Technical...
Stanley O. Nelson
Aug 1, 2021
Stanley Owen Nelson, 84, of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, August 1, 2021, at the Minnesota Veteran’s Home in Fergus Falls. Stanley was born January 21, 1937, in Folden Township, rural Vining, MN, to Jerrold and Hazel (Gunderson) Nelson in Vining, MN. He graduated from Henning High School in 1955. He served in the United States Army from 1959 to 1961...
Odin Beard
Jul 31, 2021
Odin Matthew Beard, 49, of Fergus Falls, died unexpectedly at his home on Friday, July 30, 2021. Odin was born in Guadalajara, Mexico on January 22, 1972, to Carol Alstad and Douglas Beard. He graduated from Fergus Falls High School and later went on to earn a degree in Industrial Engineering from NDSU. He worked for Shoremaster in Fergus Falls....
John Rund
Jul 31, 2021
John Rund, 70, of Dalton, died Saturday, July 31, 2021, at Sanford in Fargo. John Edward Rund was born May 5, 1951, to Gordon and Alice (Hord) Rund in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He was baptized at Rock Prairie Lutheran Church. He attended country school in District 139 at the Ten Mile Lake School, graduating in 1969 from Fergus Falls High...
Clara Nickel
Jul 30, 2021
Clara Bell (Britton) Nickel, 84, of Fergus Falls, died Friday, July 30, 2021, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Clara was born September 7, 1936, in St. Cloud, MN, to Clarence and Blanche (Black) Britton. She graduated from St. Cloud Tech in 1954. On October 6, 1956, she married Richard “Dick” Nickel at Waite Park Methodist Church in Waite Park, MN....
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