Obituaries
Florence Perry
Oct 16, 2011
Florence Perry passed away at Bethany Nursing Home on Sunday, October 16, 2011. Florence was born July 3, 1917, to Rose and Andrew Niemann, in St. Paul MN. She is a graduate of Faribault High School and received a cosmetology degree from the Lawrence Beauty School in St. Paul MN. Florence married John Kisor in November of 1939. They resided...
Harriet Schwartz
Oct 15, 2011
Harriet Schwartz, 88, died at Bethany Community in Alexandria, Minnesota on Saturday, October 15, 2011. Harriet Maxine Heuer was born October 3, 1923 at home near Donnelly, Minnesota, to Roy and Verna (Sutton) Heuer. She married Ralph Fynboh in January 1941. They farmed and raised three sons in Stevens County until Ralph's death in 1958. In 1965 she married Frank...
Hans Henrikson
Oct 11, 2011
Hans Peter Henrikson was born March 29, 1961 to Jackie and Maureen Goffin Henrikson of Osakis, MN. Hans attended Osakis School. Hans passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. He was baptized into the Christian faith on September 14, 2011. Hans had a passion for fishing; he loved spending time in his boat out on the lake. He also loved...
Donald Davis
Oct 11, 2011
Donald Dewayne Davis was born on March 28, 1928 in Cassopolis, MI to Charles Lambert and Beatrice Isabelle (Young) Davis. As a teenager he worked at A&P Grocery and Kroger?s Grocery stocking shelves, Diamond Lakes Bottling Works bottling soft drinks, mowing lawn, Connelly Furniture Store assembling furniture, 3 Sister?s Restaurant cooking and washing dishes, and American Coach Company as a...
Barbara Nelson
Oct 4, 2011
Barbara Jean Nelson, age 67, of Alexandria, MN died on Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Barb was born in Alexandria on October 7, 1943 the daughter of Conrad and Georgianna Jern. In 1961, Barb graduated from Alexandria High School. She spent the majority of her life in Alexandria. In 1963, Barb was united in marriage to Dwayne J. Clarke also of...
Maurice Faehnrich
Oct 4, 2011
OBITUARY Maurice Alec Faehnrich was born on September 1, 1926 near Nelson, MN, the son of Louis and Ruth (Sargeant) Faehnrich. He was the last of twelve children to be born to this family. He attended country school and helped his dad on the farm. Morrie enlisted into the United States Army and served overseas in the Philippians, and Korea...
Roger Perry
Oct 4, 2011
Roger B. Perry Roger B. Perry was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, on March 1, 1916, the son of Ralph and Marie (Booth) Perry. He was raised in the Baptist faith, attended schools and graduated from high school in Marshalltown. Roger attended junior college and then accepted a football scholarship at William Penn College in Iowa. Following college Roger was united...
Enfred Norling
Oct 4, 2011
Enfred ?Shorty? Edward Norling was born on December 25, 1921 in Lake Mary Township, Douglas County, MN to Edward and Irene (Madosh) Norling. He attended District 24 and then Central High School through the 10th grade. Shorty went to help on the farm due to his Dad?s health problems. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry in 1944 and was...
Frank Branch
Oct 3, 2011
Frank Aaron Branch was born June 26, 1979 in Oklahoma City, OK. He was living with a foster family near Bemidji, MN when Ronald and Ann Branch of Alexandria adopted him at age three. He grew up and went to school in Alexandria. At age twenty-three, Frank moved to Moorhead, MN where he lived in a supervised apartment. Heartland Industries...
Tanner Hocum
Oct 1, 2011
OBITUARY Tanner Anthony Hocum was born on November 30, 1989 in Burnsville, MN, the son of Anthony Hocum and Shelley (Hanson) Gilbertson. He graduated from Jefferson High School with the Class of 2008. Tanner enjoyed skateboarding and snowboarding, but his passion was music. He taught himself to play the piano and he also mastered the guitar, often recording songs and...
Viola Hartke
Oct 1, 2011
OBITUARY Viola Hazel Hartke was born on February 15, 1925 in Ashby, MN the daughter of Harold and Hannah (Thompson) Nordskog. She was baptized and confirmed in Grue Lutheran Church near Ashby, MN. Viola lived in the Alexandria area and attended Central High School until her senior year when her family moved to St. James, MN. She graduated St. James...
Olga Affeldt
Sep 29, 2011
OBITUARY Olga Rieder Affeldt was born on September 25, 1927 in Spruce Hill Township, MN the daughter of Gottlieb and Paulina (Gezell) Rieder. She was one of eight children. Olga attended kindergarten in Fairmont, MN and elementary schools in Parkers, Prairie and Garfield, MN. She graduated from Central High School in Alexandria, MN in June of 1946. Olga?s first job...
Robert Mohawk
Sep 27, 2011
ROBERT (BOB) MOHAWK Robert Mohawk was born on June 4, 1932 in Rochester, MN the son of Floyd and Agnes (Helgerson) Mohawk. Bob grew up in Chatfield, MN, where he graduated from high school in the Class of 1951. During high school, Bob was a star football player wearing #42 in the backfield. He ran track and field and was...
Orville Larson
Sep 22, 2011
Orville B. Larson Orville Byron Larson was born on the family farm in Little Sauk Township, Todd County, Minnesota on September 11, 1923, the son of Albin and Olga (Johnson) Larson. He grew up in a Christian home and attended country schools # 92 and #29 in Todd County. At the age of 12, Orville?s mother became very ill and...
Patricia Berger
Sep 15, 2011
Patricia Berger Memorial Services for Patricia Ann Berger, age 70, of Alexandria, were held on Thursday, September 15, 2011, from the Calvary Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Minnesota with Rev. John Martinson officiating. Music was provided by Sandy Buckner, Marcie Vickerman, and Jordan Arel. Patricia Ann Berger was born on May 4th, 1941 to Maurice and Hazel Hardy, on the family...
Patricia Berger
Sep 15, 2011
Patricia Berger Memorial Services for Patricia Ann Berger, age 70, of Alexandria, were held on Thursday, September 15, 2011, from the Calvary Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Minnesota with Rev. John Martinson officiating. Music was provided by Sandy Buckner, Marcie Vickerman, and Jordan Arel. Patricia Ann Berger was born on May 4th, 1941 to Maurice and Hazel Hardy, on the family...
Eleanor Johnson
Sep 9, 2011
Eleanor Lavina Ness Johnson passed away at Knute Nelson in Alexandria, MN on September 9, 2011. Eleanor was born to Ella and Lars Ness on Sept. 24, 1920 and grew up on a farm near Morris, Illinois. During World War II she served her country as a Rosie the Riveter, assembling Corsair planes in Aurora, Illinois. She married Robert V....
Ruth Lundeen
Sep 9, 2011
Ruth Steen, Strand, Lundeen was born on December 31, 1911, to parents Einar O. Steen and Gina Helene Jenson Steen of Farwell, MN. Ruth had three brothers: Olaf, Victor, and Arnold; two sisters: Evangeline and Doris. Living on the farm was not always easy. I learned to milk the cows at the age of eight, shocked the grain, stacked the...
Charles Pugh
Sep 6, 2011
CHARLES E. PUGH Charles "Chuck" Edward Pugh was born February 17, 1927, in Del Norte, Colorado. He was eighty-four when he died on September 6, 2011 His parents were C. GIenn and Esther W.Pugh, and at the age of three, his family moved to Laramie, Wyoming, where his father continued his medical practice for the next forty-five years. Chuck graduated...
Evangeline Ekdahl
Sep 6, 2011
Evangeline ?Angie? Marie (Berg) Ekdahl passed away on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at Clearwater Suites in Alexandria at the age of 89. Angie was born on August 16, 1922, in Clearbrook, Minnesota the daughter of John and Tillie Berg. She grew up in rural Minnesota and moved to the Alexandria area in 1937 and worked for a local family. She...
