Obituaries
Claris Keeping
Aug 3, 2015
Claris Keeping, 65, of Fergus Falls, died Monday, August 3, 2015, at the Broen Home in Fergus Falls. Claris Elaine Johnson was born on June 8, 1950, to Manfred and Ruthmarie (Holmgren) Johnson in Detroit Lakes. She grew up in Lake Park attending church and school and graduated in 1968. She married Roger Keeping in 1969 and from this union...
James Ellingson
Aug 3, 2015
James Ellingson, 79, of Ashby, died Monday, August 3, 2015, at his home under the care of Knute Nelson Hospice. James Benjamin Ellingson did not come into this world easily. Stubbornly refusing to enter the traditional headfirst method, he entered feet first, kicking and crying his way into the bedroom of his family farmhouse on March 2, 1936 into the...
Douglas Larson
Aug 2, 2015
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same." These words of Lavia Weedn perfectly describe Doug Larson. For more than four decades while confined to a wheelchair, hospital bed, or rehab center, Doug left lasting footprints on countless hearts. He was courageous,...
Theodore Stahl Jr
Aug 1, 2015
Theodore Abner Stahl Jr., 70, of Fergus Falls, MN, passed away on August 1, 2015, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls. Theodore was born on March 4, 1945 to Theodore Abner and Margaret Louise (Holey) Stahl in rural Petersburg, Nebraska. He worked at various jobs farming and as a mechanic. His hobbies included drawing and making tin toys. He...
Reuben Jensen
Jul 31, 2015
Reuben Jensen, 91, of Ashby, died Friday, July 31, 2015 at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls. Reuben Miller Jensen was born on December 24, 1923, on the family farm in Dane Prairie Township, Otter Tail County to George M. and Betsy (Jensen) Jensen. He received his formal education at Rural School District 19, Otter Tail County. As a young...
Evelyn Risbrudt
Jul 26, 2015
Evelyn Risbrudt, 93 of Ashby, Minnesota died Sunday, July 26, 2015 at the Evansville Care Campus. Evelyn Lorraine Risbrudt was born on April 24, 1922 by Dalton, Minnesota the daughter of John and Louisa (Johnson) Nelson. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith and attended Country School by Dalton. Evie and Ervin Risbrudt were married on March 13,...
Bernice Lundemo
Jul 26, 2015
Bernice Lundemo, 92, of Fergus Falls died Saturday, July 25, 2015 at Park Gardens Senior Living in Fergus Falls, MN. She was born December 25, 1922 in Appleton, MN to Peter and Thea (Tofte ) Bakken. She was baptized and confirmed at Long Lake Lutheran Church in rural Appleton. Bernice graduated from Appleton High School in 1941. She enjoyed a...
Hector Avila
Jul 25, 2015
Hector Martin Carrillo Avila, 44, of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, July 25, 2015, at his home. Visitation: 4 – 8 PM Saturday, with a 5 PM Prayer Service, at Glende-Nilson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls Mass of Christian Burial: 11 AM Monday, August 3, 2015, at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, Fergus Falls Clergy: Father Jeff Ethan and Deacon...
Rhiley Henneman
Jul 17, 2015
Rhiley Joy Henneman, age 7 of Evansville died Friday, July 17, 2015, surrounded by her family at the Masonic Children's Hospital in Minneapolis from complications after her heart transplant. Rhiley Joy Henneman was born on August 1, 2007, the day the I-35 bridge collapsed, the daughter of Michael Henneman and April Lystrom. She attended Sunday School at Faith Lutheran Church,...
Elizabeth Maxwell
Jul 16, 2015
Elizabeth "Liz" Maxwell, 89, of Sarasota, FL, died Thursday, July 16, 2015, at her lake home in Richville, MN. Martha Elizabeth (Liz) Fargusson Maxwell was born February 17, 1926, to Earl Elisha Fargusson from Illinois, and Martha Elizabeth Messenger, from Door County, Michigan. During WWII, Liz entered the cadet nurses corps, completing her nurses' training at the Kahler School of...
Elaine Everts
Jul 15, 2015
Elaine Everts, 94, died on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Battle Lake, Minnesota. The youngest child of Ole Peter and Clara Aune Ness, Elaine Sylvia was born at the family farm on the west shore of Lake Blanche on September 21, 1920. She was baptized and confirmed at Skibvedt Lutheran Church and graduated from Battle...
Harvey Haagenson
Jul 15, 2015
Harvey Haagenson, 91, of Clitherall, died Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at his daughter's home in Crystal, MN. Harvey A. Haagenson was born on November 1, 1923 in Clitherall, MN, the son of Henry and Anna (Braaten) Haagenson. He attended school at District #176, a one-room school house. After receiving his education, he worked at International Harvester as a machinist, tooling...
Leslie Anderson
Jul 12, 2015
Leslie Anderson, 84 of Henning, formerly of Evansville died Sunday, July 12, 2015 at the St. Cloud Hospital, going to be with his sister, Ruby and brother, Lloyd. Leslie Wallace Anderson was born on November 6, 1930 in Evansville, Minnesota the son of Ernest and Ella (Olsen) Anderson. He was baptized on December 6, 1930, and has been a lifetime...
Marlys Englund
Jul 2, 2015
Marlys S. Englund, 85, of Hastings, formerly of Fergus Falls and Alexandria, died Thursday, July 2, 2015, at Oak Ridge Assisted Living in Hastings. Marlys Sedonia Sleen was born on July 30, 1929 in Pelican Rapids, MN, the daughter of Simon and Bessie (Jenson) Sleen. She attended school in Pelican Rapids, graduating from Pelican Rapids High School. Marlys attended the...
Mildred Solin
Jun 26, 2015
Mildred Solin, 80, of Fergus Falls, MN, died on Friday, June 26, 2015, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Mildred Lorraine Solin was born June 30, 1934 to Lewis and Mabel (Sveback) Lofthus in Girard Township, Ottertail County, Minnesota. She was baptized in Fergus Falls and confirmed in Vining Lutheran Church on August 28, 1949. She lived at home on the...
Cornelia Rogers
Jun 22, 2015
Cornelia Helen Rogers, 85, of Fergus Falls, MN, died on Monday, June 22, 2015, at her residence, under the care of Lakeland Hospice. Corie was born on March 26, 1930, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, the daughter of John and Wilma (Frikken) Mark. She grew up and attended Fergus Falls Public Schools. On December 31, 1948, she married Robert Ernest Rogers...
Joy Gaarsland
Jun 22, 2015
Joy Gaarsland, 68 of rural Battle Lake died Monday, June 22, 2015 at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Joy Ann Gaarsland was born on June 15, 1947, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota the daughter of Vernon and Goldena (LaValleur) Bowman. She was baptized and confirmed in the First Presbyterian Church and graduated from the Ashby High School in 1965,...
Darrel Welter
Jun 20, 2015
Darrell "Pete" Welter, 83, New York Mills, died Saturday, June 20, 2015. Darrell LeRoy Welter was born November 6, 1931, in Newton Township, MN. He was baptized along with three of his siblings on February 5, 1935, at the home of Harry and Leona Petersen in Davies, Homestead Township, MN and confirmed at St Peters Lutheran Church, New York Mills...
Hermina Wahlin
Jun 18, 2015
Hermina Wahlin, 110 years of age, the oldest woman in Minnesota, of Evansville died Thursday, June 18, 2015 at the Evansville Care Center. Hermina Josephine Wahlin was born on November 26, 1904, in a seven bedroom house her father built in 1898, about two miles from Evansville. She was the eighth child born to Nels and Nella (Erickson) Johnson and...
Mildred Nygaard
Jun 15, 2015
Mildred Nygaard, 90, of Fergus Falls, died Monday, June 15, 2015, at PioneerCare in Fergus Falls. Mildred Carolyne Nygaard was born on July 25, 1924 in Superior, Wisconsin, the daughter of George and Blanche (Grant) Johnson. At an early age, the family moved to Fergus Falls, where George worked as a blacksmith. Mildred attended school in Fergus Falls through the...
