Obituaries
Wayne Arden Elton
Apr 28, 2023
Wayne Arden Elton was born on March 30, 1935, in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. He was the son of Willie and Nora (Johnson) Elton. Wayne graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He earned a Masters Degree in Education from North Dakota State University. Wayne spent his adult life dedicated to education. He was a teacher, high school principal, assistant...
Vionne Mae Hadler
Apr 21, 2023
Vionne Mae (Kloos) Hadler was born on March 3, 1940, to Daniel and Frieda (DeVries) Kloos on a farm in Grant County, MN. She attended high school in Herman, MN and graduated in 1958. Vionne had three brothers and one sister who she helped raise and is remembered as being the matriarch of the family.
Vionne moved to Minneapolis, MN...
Marjorie Jeanne DeVorak
Apr 17, 2023
Marjorie Jeanne DeVorak was born on May 8, 1936 in Cass Lake, Minnesota the daughter of Martin (John) Johnson and Ellen (Sall) Johnson. She grew up on the family farm with her five siblings where they learned the value of hard work, family, tasks in the home and farm from their parents. Growing up she played softball, went to...
Linda Marie Pierce
Apr 16, 2023
Linda Marie (Stewart) Pierce was born on June 11, 1953, to John and Betty (Piechowski) in Honolulu, HI. Her family moved several times during her early childhood due to her dad being enlisted in the Army. Linda spent her later childhood growing up in Rochester, MN, graduating from Lourdes High School. She began college in Rochester, MN and then...
Steven Allen Vickerman
Apr 16, 2023
Steven Allen Vickerman was born on November 8, 1954, to Clifford and Marina (Dwyer) Vickerman in Sauk Centre, MN. He grew up in Minneapolis, MN and graduated from Spring Lake Park High School in 1972. After high school, Steven enlisted in the Airforce and completed basic training in San Antonio, TX. He was stationed in Mountain Home, ID working in...
Wilford Frank Miller
Apr 16, 2023
On the morning of April 16, 2023, Wilford Frank Miller age 87, while in the comfort and care of the Galeon Memorial Home staff, passed into God’s keeping. Wilford was a quiet and peaceful man, and so too, was his passing.
Wilford was born on August 17, 1935. The eldest child of Frank and Frances (Schulke) Miller. He was raised...
Virginia (Carlson) Mae Walker
Apr 15, 2023
Virginia Mae Carlson was born May 16th, 1951 to parents Ernest and Clara (Baumhofer) Carlson. She was the 7th of 8 children in the family. She always considered home to be Evansville, Minnesota. School, careers and family took her to various places in Minnesota, North Dakota, Illinois, South Dakota and eventually back to North Dakota. Gina graduated from St. Luke’s...
Michelle Lynn Purdy
Apr 14, 2023
Michelle Lynn Purdy, age 62 of Alexandria, MN died on Friday, April 14, 2023, at Alomere Health in Alexandria.
A visitation will take place on Friday, April 28, 2023, from 4-7 PM at the Anderson Funeral Home in Alexandria.
James (Jimmy) Russel Parks
Apr 13, 2023
James Parks, age 36, passed away unexpectedly in Bismarck, North Dakota on April 13, 2023, surrounded by his family.
James (Jimmy) Russel Parks, Jr. was born on November 13, 1986, in Alexandria Minnesota, to James and Kristine Parks. James was an active young man with a strong will and a free spirit. James grew up in Osakis, Minnesota and...
Bruce John Bergs
Apr 13, 2023
Bruce John Bergs, 69, died as a result of a motorcycle accident, in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, April 13, 2023, with his three daughters by his side.
Bruce John Bergs was born, along with his twin sister, Bonnie, in Brainerd, Minnesota, to John Lester Marvin and Marion Jane (Heaton) Bergs on January 5, 1954. He grew up in...
Bruce "Angel" Aspelin
Apr 13, 2023
Bruce “Angel” Aspelin was born on August 16, 1947 in Slayton, Minnesota. He was the son of Rudolph and Lila (Ricketts) Aspelin. He grew up on a farm where he learned the quality of hard work and the importance of family and friends. Angel and his brother Kent learned the art of fabrication at a young age, using whatever...
Sonja Rae Zeithamer
Apr 12, 2023
Sonja Rae (Trousil) Zeithamer was born August 29, 1943 in Alexandria, MN, the oldest and only daughter of Martin & Eldore Trousil. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Calvary Lutheran Church in Alexandria.
Sonja attended country school and graduated from Jefferson Sr. High School in 1961. She then attended MN School of Business in Minneapolis, graduating...
Elphege "Pin" David Webskowski
Apr 12, 2023
Elphege (Pin) David Webskowski was born April 25, 1930, at home near Millerville, Minnesota, the son of Joseph and Barbara (Korkowski) Webskowski. He attended a country school near Brandon and graduated from Brandon High School in 1947. He served in the Army during the Korean Conflict working with Signal Corps in France and Germany. He began employment at Ludke...
Mabel B Hildebrandt
Apr 9, 2023
Mabel Blanche Hildebrandt was born on March 10, 1938, in Madison, Minnesota the daughter of Alfred and Anna (Lashowsky) Reese. She grew up on a farm and attended country school through the 8th grade. When she started 9th grade she had to move into Clinton to attend Clinton High School. During this time she worked as a seamstress and...
Michael Dean Trainor
Apr 8, 2023
Michael “Mikey” Dean Trainor was born on February 2, 1952, to Lucille Kuhn in Centralia, IL. He grew up and attended school in Alexandria, MN. He worked and retired from TC American Monorail in Glenwood, MN working as a painter and welder. After retirement, Mikey began working at the Depot on the cleaning crew with his “second family”. Hunting and...
Richard John Ostman
Apr 7, 2023
Richard “Rick” John Ostman was born on July 21, 1950, to Douglas and Margaret (Nelson) Ostman, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from Robbinsdale High School, Rick attended St. Cloud State University, majoring in music, before being drafted into the U.S. Army. He served at Aberdeen Proving Ground and later in Nuremberg, Germany as a teacher to other soldiers, instructing them...
Mary Rae (Chan) Wood
Apr 6, 2023
Mary Rae (Chan) Wood was born in Alexandria on August 20, 1931, where she lived until she was married. She attended The College of St. Teresa, in Winona, and earned a degree in teaching. She met her future husband while at college and married Dick M Wood on July 31, 1954, in Alexandria. Together they raised seven children while...
Wallace Delbert Karl
Apr 6, 2023
Wallace Delbert Karl was born on June 9, 1931, to Martin (Eugene) and Anna (Volk) Karl at Slayton, Minnesota. He attended school at Slayton, Minnesota and helped his parents with farming.
Wally was united in marriage to Betty Lou Hartman on January 14, 1950, in Slayton, Minnesota. The couple lived in Minnesota and then California, where Wally worked at the...
Angela Marie Sternhagen
Apr 1, 2023
Angela (Angie) Sternhagen was born June 6, 1937, at the old St. Luke’s Hospital in Alexandria to Rev. Clarence H. Jenson and wife Alice (Krogstad) Jenson. She was joined in marriage to Deryl W. Sternhagen on May 16, 1964, at the romantic Little Brown Church in the Vale in Iowa. They were blessed with one son, Steve.
Angie started doing...
Romayne Strand
Mar 20, 2023
Romayne (Anderson) Strand was born in Arlington, MN on October 7, 1929, to Harold and Lorna (Landeene) Anderson; she was the oldest of three. Romayne spent her early years in Arlington, then moved to Alexandria, MN, in 1945 when her family purchased the Traveler’s Inn. She worked with her family at the restaurant throughout high school and graduated in 1947....
