Obituaries
Paul Pipo
May 31, 2020
Paul Pipo, 75, of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, May 31, 2020, at the MN Veterans Home in Fergus Falls. Paul George Pipo, was born on February 26, 1945, in Alexandria, Minnesota, to George and Marvel (Sletto) Pipo. They lived in rural Moe Township. Paul attended elementary school at District 5 country school and later attended country school near Kensington, Minnesota....
Luella A Helland
May 29, 2020
Luella A. Helland, 88, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Friday, May 30, 2020 at LB Broen. Luella Ardis Helland was born in Faribault, MN September 20, 1931, the daughter of Oscar and Hattie (Walker) Helland. Her childhood years were spent on a farm in Goodhue County, Minnesota. She attended a one-room rural school for eight years. The Helland family...
Glenda Meister
May 26, 2020
Glenda Marie (Haakenson) Meister, 92, a resident of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in Golden Valley, MN, surrounded by her loving family. She was born February 8, 1928, to Knut and Synneva (Hermunstad) Haakenson in Parshall, ND. She attended grade school and junior high in Galesburg, ND and Page, ND, and attended Fargo Central High School, graduating in...
Leshawn "Lele" Anderson
May 25, 2020
Leshawn “Lele” Anderson, 35, of Fergus Falls, was taken into the arms of her Lord on Monday, May 25, 2020. Leshawn was born December 11, 1984, in Los Angeles, CA to Leon Anderson and Yvonne Gilmore. She attended Moon Valley High School in Arizona. On May 27, 2009, she married Scott Floback in Las Vegas, NV. Leshawn was a stay...
Charles "Chuck" Lynn Beck
May 23, 2020
“Chuck” left this world quietly, but with the passion for life he had always shown. After gracefully enduring years of progression of MSA, a rare neurological disease, he passed away in his sleep. He did not let the changes his body was undergoing define his love of family, friends, colleagues or the patients for whom he’d cared. He was an...
Nicholas C. Kelman
May 20, 2020
Nicholas Clark Kelman, 72, of Fergus Falls, died Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at his home. Nicholas was born March 26, 1948, to Alva and Caroline (McKee) Kelman in Madison, WI. He graduated from Waterloo High School in Waterloo, WI in 1966 and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 1973. He served in the U.S. Army from 1970-1972 as a Personnel Management...
Eleanor G. Synstelien
May 20, 2020
Eleanor Gertrude Synstelien, 94, of Fergus Falls, died Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Eleanor was born on December 1, 1925, to Charles and Nellie (Olson) Foster in Jackson County, MN. She attended school in Petersburg, MN through seventh grade. She then attended and graduated from Estherville High School in 1943. On September 28, 1946, she married...
Evelyn Millard
May 19, 2020
Evelyn (Claeys) Millard, 91, of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, May 19, 2020, at LB Broen Home in Fergus Falls. Evelyn was born September 13, 1928 to Belgian immigrants, Emil and Sophia Claeys. Her family farmed near Minneota, MN. In 1947 she married Archie Millard at St. Edwards Catholic Church in Minneota, MN. Evelyn was a hard-working housewife whose eight children...
Janice Lehn
May 18, 2020
Janice Hulda (Bergquist) Lehn, 79, of Erhard, died Monday, May 18, 2020, at her home under the care of her family and LB Hospice. Janice was born August 3, 1940, to Joseph and Myrtle (Roskopf) Bergquist in Fergus Falls, MN. She attended Foxhome Elementary School and graduated from Breckenridge High School in 1958. She was a typesetter at the Fergus...
Lowell Drechsel
May 14, 2020
Lowell Drechsel, 86, a resident of Erhard, passed away Thursday, May 14th 2020, at his home under the care of his family and LB Hospice after a courageous 7-month battle with cancer. He was born January 23, 1934, in Friberg Township at his parent's home, the son of Otto and Bessie (Grant) Drechsel. Lowell was baptized on April 14, 1934,...
Kenneth Sillerud
May 8, 2020
Kenneth Lyle Sillerud, passed away on Friday, May 8, 2020, at the age of 90 at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Kenneth was born December 21, 1929, in Prairie View Township, Wilkin County in Rothsay, MN, the seventh of eight children to Oliver and Clara (Pederson) Sillerud. Kenneth was baptized and confirmed at Little Bethany Church in rural Rothsay. He attended...
Dennis Synstelien
May 7, 2020
Dennis Carl Synstelien, 77, passed away Thursday, May 7, 2020, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Dennis was born on December 22, 1942, to Carl and Palma (Dahlager) Synstelien at Wright Memorial Hospital in Fergus Falls. He attended school in Fergus Falls, graduating in 1960. After high school he worked at Walt’s Repair, Hoff’s TV Repair, and at Ten Mile Lake...
Alice Rund
May 7, 2020
Alice M. Rund, 99, of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, May 7, 2020, under the care of LB Hospice while at LB Broen. Alice Marjorie Hord was born in Fergus Falls on July 2, 1920, to Harry and Ida (Bergerud) Hord. She attended school in Fergus and enjoyed spending time at her mother’s home farm in Aastad Township. She was confirmed...
Randy Gebhardt
May 6, 2020
Randy Clay Gebhardt, 64, of Fergus Falls, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, with his wife by his side. Randy was born January 31, 1956, in Sidney, MT to Verlin (Rex) and Mary (Hafemann) Gebhardt. He grew up in the Sidney and Savage, MT area and graduated from Savage High School in 1974. Later in life,...
Arlan Gordon Erlandson
May 5, 2020
Arlan G. Erlandson, 85, of Fergus Falls, died Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at the MN Veterans Home in Fergus Falls. Arlan Gordon Erlandson was born at home, in Aastad Township on November 3, 1934 to Edwin and Ruth Erlandson. He worked on the family farm and attended his local country school. He graduated from Morris Ag high school. After high...
Mary Jane Mavis
May 3, 2020
Mary Jane Mavis, 87, of Fergus Falls, went home to be with her Lord Sunday morning, May 3, 2020, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Mary Jane was born in Barrett Hospital, MN on April 15, 1933, to Claude and Esther (Olson) Beach. When she was eight years old the family moved to a farm north of Ashby, MN. She was...
Brigitte Schiffner
May 3, 2020
Brigitte Schiffner, 77, of Fergus Falls, died Sunday, May 3, 2020, at her home. Brigitte G. Haid was born December 31, 1942, to Berthold and Gertrude (Bethke) Haid in Gotha, Germany. She attended grade school in Germany and then moved to New Jersey where she attended West Morris High School, graduating in 1963. She then went to school for Nurses...
Mark C. Hanson
May 3, 2020
Mark “Grip” Clifford Hanson, 63, of Dent, died unexpectedly Sunday, May 3, 2020, as the result of a motorcycle accident. Mark was born January 1, 1957, to Clifford and Darlene (Perry) Hanson in Marshall, MN. He attended Minneota Elementary School and Fergus Falls High School, graduating in 1975. He then attended Fergus Falls Community College and received his RN Associates...
Larry Bonebrake
May 1, 2020
Larry Bonebrake, 76, of Fergus Falls, formerly of Little Falls, MN passed away on Friday, May 1, 2020, at his residence. Larry, the son of Herold Waldo and Deloris Mae Bonebrake, was born December 22, 1943, in Buffalo, MN. He grew up on the family farm, entering the United States Navy Reserve in January of 1960. He received his high...
Darwin Stigen
Apr 30, 2020
Darwin Alvin Stigen, 79, of Fergus Falls, died Thursday, April 30, 2020, surrounded by family at his home. Darwin was born July 6, 1940, to Marvin A. Stigen and Eva (Hendershot) Hawes at home, in Almora, MN. He was the oldest of five children. The Stigen family moved to Fergus Falls when Darwin was 12. He was a member of...
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