1921
Edith
2015
Edith Lang
October 31, 1921 — March 31, 2015
Edith Lang, 93, Ashby, died Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, from a brain hemorrhage.
Edith Cornelia Norgren was born October 31, 1921 in Evansville, the daughter of John and Nannie (Lindstrom) Norgren. She was baptized at Zionsborg Lutheran Church, rural Evansville, and confirmed in 1936 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Evansville. She attended rural schools and graduated from Evansville High School in 1939.
Following graduation, she attended Moorhead State Teachers College, completing the two-year Elementary Education program in 1942. She began a 27-year career teaching at Leaf Valley and Carlos schools. Later, she worked briefly at Juster Brothers Department Store in Minneapolis.
On December 28, 1944, she was united in marriage to high school classmate Cleve Trenton Lang. The couple lived on a farm north of Erdahl for eight years, then moved to Erdahl in 1953 when they purchased the Erdahl Creamery. Edith taught at Erdahl School District 58 during the 1946-47 and 1947-48 school years.
She resumed teaching full-time in the Evansville Independent School District in 1962 and continued until her retirement in 1985, teaching fifth grade and later third grade. She took a one-year leave of absence to complete her Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1969.
Cleve died April 23, 1977, and Edith moved to a home on Pelican Lake near Ashby in 1979. She married William Ogden in 2000 and the couple continued to live at Pelican Lake. Mr. Ogden died in 2007.
In recent years, she spent winters in Florida with her daughter, Mary, and for the past two years, divided her time between an apartment in Minnetonka and her Pelican Lake home. She was active in retirement, spending many years as a volunteer at the Evansville Historical Foundation and in committees at Faith Lutheran Church, Evansville. She enjoyed travel, music, reading, crossword puzzles, baking, gardening, cultivating wildflowers, bird watching, spoiling her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and family Black Labradors, in later years, watching NASCAR racing on TV, and a good story or joke always. Always open to new and different experiences, she celebrated her 90th birthday with a motorcycle ride from her good friend David Balgaard. In 2014, Edith and several surviving classmates celebrated their 75th high school class reunion.
When her children were growing, Edith was active as a Sunday School teacher, 4-H (Headache, Heartburn, Haste and Half-finished) Club leader and was an active supporter of their athletic, music and other activities.
She is survived by her sons, Andrew (Louise), rural Ashby, and Stephen, Alpine, TX; daughter Mary Mann (David Pearson), Minnetonka; grandsons Jaxon (Allison), Chanhassen, Joshua (Tessa), Alexandria, and Zebulon (Leah Scolere), Ithaca, NY; granddaughter Alexis (Misha) Vogel, Alpine; great-grandchildren Daisy and Mason Lang, Chanhassen, Aria Vogel, Alpine, and a great-grandson to arrive in July; her sister, Carol Day, Morris; numerous nieces and nephews; her extended Ogden family; and all who called her "friend."
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Cleve Lang and William Ogden, brothers Charlie, Walter, Oscar and Russell Norgren, and her sister, Marie Westberg.
A celebration of Edith's life will be held Saturday, April 11 at 11 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, Evansville. Visitation one hour prior to the service.
Pastor Dennis Preston will officiate.
Glende-Nilson Funeral Home of Evansville is in charge of the arrangements.
Edith Cornelia Norgren was born October 31, 1921 in Evansville, the daughter of John and Nannie (Lindstrom) Norgren. She was baptized at Zionsborg Lutheran Church, rural Evansville, and confirmed in 1936 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Evansville. She attended rural schools and graduated from Evansville High School in 1939.
Following graduation, she attended Moorhead State Teachers College, completing the two-year Elementary Education program in 1942. She began a 27-year career teaching at Leaf Valley and Carlos schools. Later, she worked briefly at Juster Brothers Department Store in Minneapolis.
On December 28, 1944, she was united in marriage to high school classmate Cleve Trenton Lang. The couple lived on a farm north of Erdahl for eight years, then moved to Erdahl in 1953 when they purchased the Erdahl Creamery. Edith taught at Erdahl School District 58 during the 1946-47 and 1947-48 school years.
She resumed teaching full-time in the Evansville Independent School District in 1962 and continued until her retirement in 1985, teaching fifth grade and later third grade. She took a one-year leave of absence to complete her Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1969.
Cleve died April 23, 1977, and Edith moved to a home on Pelican Lake near Ashby in 1979. She married William Ogden in 2000 and the couple continued to live at Pelican Lake. Mr. Ogden died in 2007.
In recent years, she spent winters in Florida with her daughter, Mary, and for the past two years, divided her time between an apartment in Minnetonka and her Pelican Lake home. She was active in retirement, spending many years as a volunteer at the Evansville Historical Foundation and in committees at Faith Lutheran Church, Evansville. She enjoyed travel, music, reading, crossword puzzles, baking, gardening, cultivating wildflowers, bird watching, spoiling her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and family Black Labradors, in later years, watching NASCAR racing on TV, and a good story or joke always. Always open to new and different experiences, she celebrated her 90th birthday with a motorcycle ride from her good friend David Balgaard. In 2014, Edith and several surviving classmates celebrated their 75th high school class reunion.
When her children were growing, Edith was active as a Sunday School teacher, 4-H (Headache, Heartburn, Haste and Half-finished) Club leader and was an active supporter of their athletic, music and other activities.
She is survived by her sons, Andrew (Louise), rural Ashby, and Stephen, Alpine, TX; daughter Mary Mann (David Pearson), Minnetonka; grandsons Jaxon (Allison), Chanhassen, Joshua (Tessa), Alexandria, and Zebulon (Leah Scolere), Ithaca, NY; granddaughter Alexis (Misha) Vogel, Alpine; great-grandchildren Daisy and Mason Lang, Chanhassen, Aria Vogel, Alpine, and a great-grandson to arrive in July; her sister, Carol Day, Morris; numerous nieces and nephews; her extended Ogden family; and all who called her "friend."
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Cleve Lang and William Ogden, brothers Charlie, Walter, Oscar and Russell Norgren, and her sister, Marie Westberg.
A celebration of Edith's life will be held Saturday, April 11 at 11 a.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, Evansville. Visitation one hour prior to the service.
Pastor Dennis Preston will officiate.
Glende-Nilson Funeral Home of Evansville is in charge of the arrangements.
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