Obituaries
Jerome Bolstad
Oct 13, 2014
Jerome “Jerry” James Bolstad was born September 15, 1949 near Holmes City, Douglas County, Minnesota to Milo and Myrtle (Anderson) Bolstad. Jerry was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith. He attended several schools in Douglas County area; he quit school at the age of sixteen and went to work for area farmers. Jerry spent time working at Brekken farm...
Haldon Coultas
Oct 12, 2014
Haldon Juel Coultas was born August 6, 1922 in Fairdale, ND, the son of Leighton and Emma (Seterdahl) Coultas. On December 7, 1946, he married Marylou Anders. They lived on a hobby farm in Cogswell, ND where they raised their ten children. Haldon was employed by Melroe for thirty-five years; he was the first employee hired and when he retired...
Alfred Garmon
Oct 10, 2014
Alfred C. Garmon was born August 2, 1930 in San Angelo, TX to William and Gladys (Smith) Garmon. He was raised in San Angelo where he graduated from high school in 1948. Following his schooling Al joined the United States Navy where he met Pauleen Lemke. While in the Navy al served in Korea and also served with the VA-55...
Kathleen Brusven
Oct 9, 2014
Kathleen Louise Livermore was born July 7, 1939 to Charles and Grace (Winrow) Livermore in Canby, Minnesota. Kathleen married Sam Brusven of rural Cottonwood, Minnesota on June 8, 1958. For the next 23 years they worked together on the family farm and raised five children. In 1982 they moved to north of Clarissa, Minnesota and farmed there for the next...
Irma Halstead
Oct 8, 2014
Irma Genevieve (Haugen) Halstead was born September 11, 1919. She was one of eight children born to Olaf and Henrietta Haugen. She was baptized and confirmed at Mandt Lutheran Church in Minnesota. Irma went to country school and graduated from Milan High School, Minnesota in 1937. After graduation Irma moved to Alexandria, Minnesota to work for an aunt at the...
Myron Sletto
Oct 6, 2014
OBITUARY Myron Gale Sletto was born on November 28, 1941 in Alexandria, MN the son of Melvin and Edith (Botner) Sletto. He graduated from Evansville High school and then moved to Minneapolis where he worked at Dayton Department Store. After a night at the roller skating rink and short drag race down Broadway Ave. Myron met his future wife Jean...
Robert Rydberg
Oct 6, 2014
Robert William Rydberg was born August 4, 1931 in Minneapolis, MN, the son of Oscar and Bertha (Norbeck) Rydberg. He was raised and schooled in Minneapolis. Following high school Bob attended Dunwoody Institute On May 2, 1964 Bob was united in marriage to Delores Kuhnau at Zion Lutheran Church in Alexandria. The couple made their home in Minneapolis for three...
Arthur Svare
Oct 5, 2014
Arthur Melton Svare was born on June 18, 1925 in Goodridge, MN to Melvin and Betsy (Bye) Svare. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith. Arthur was enlisted in the United States Army for two years starting in 1944 and was a part of the 34th Infantry Regiment. He was Honorably Discharged on November 22, 1946. Art was...
Henry Prechel
Oct 5, 2014
Henry Frederick Prechel was born on August 27, 1928 to William and Edna (Stark) Prechel. Henry attended country school in Springfield, Minnesota. One night while at a roller skating rink Henry met a young lady by the name of Irene Seligman and on August 27, 1950 in a small country church in Jeffers, Minnesota they were united in marriage. Together...
Becky Twa
Oct 3, 2014
Becky Ann was born on February 2, 1972, in Alexandria, Minnesota the daughter of Nancy and Will Hardy. Becky and her sister shared a happy, playful, loving childhood together. This brought Becky up to be a champion in many things she did throughout High School in Alexandria, Track & Field and 4-H livestock competitions. Becky of course excelled in the...
Anna Malmgren
Oct 3, 2014
Ann Malmgren was born on a farm near Millerville, the second of six children born to Mary (Korkowski) and Balthasar Wagner. She attended Grade School in a rural school in Douglas County. Ann married Leonard Malmgren on October 24, 1938. They farmed in rural Parkers Prairie until 1945 when they purchased a farm in Carlos Township, which they actively farmed...
Kermit Anderson
Oct 3, 2014
Kermit Gilman Anderson was born on May 28, 1950 in Glenwood, MN, the son of Gilman and Gladys M. (Aslagson) Anderson. He attended grade school in Lowry and graduated from Glenwood High School. Kermit’s life work was masonry and farming with his brother Carroll on the family farm north of Lowry. Kermit was married to Gwen Parker, they had two...
Daniel Moore
Oct 3, 2014
Daniel Ray Moore was born in Rush City, Minnesota on February 6, 1963 to Robert Leroy Moore and Carol Joyce (Peterson) Moore. Dan’s family moved to Hoffman, Minnesota in 1974 where he later graduated from Hoffman/Kensington High School in 1982. After high school Dan attended Alexandria Technical College for welding. He had two welding jobs before he began working at...
Evelyn Thompson
Oct 3, 2014
Evelyn Lucile Thompson was born in Farwell, MN July 25th, 1920 to August and Matilda Olson. She had four brothers and no sisters. Evey attended elementary school near their home north of Farwell and graduated from Kensington High School. Evey met Warren Thompson when they both worked in Rockford, IL. They met through mutual acquaintances. They both moved back to...
Kevin Gross
Oct 2, 2014
Kevin Dennis Gross, of Alexandria, Minnesota went home to be with his Heavenly Father on Thursday, October 2, 2014, at the age of 52. Kevin was born to Thomas & Mary Gross in Mitchell, South Dakota on November 30th, 1961. The Gross family soon after moved to Sioux Falls, SD where Kevin grew up and attended St. Joseph’s Cathedral. Kevin...
Val Zahn
Sep 29, 2014
After a courageous battle with cancer, Val “Wally” Zahn, age 82 of Alexandria passed away on September 29, 2014. Val was born and raised on the family farm near Hague, North Dakota. He was the youngest of 16 children born to Magdelina and Joseph Zahn. As a young adult, Val Moved to Minneapolis to join his sisters in “the big...
Kent Glover
Sep 28, 2014
Kent Robert Glover was born on December 14, 1952 at the St. Cloud Hospital, in St. Cloud Minnesota to Robert and Evelyn (Friedman) Glover. Kent grew up in Cold Spring where he graduated in 1971 from Rocori High School. He married Laura Daum on March 22, 1975 at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Cold Spring, MN. Kent and Laura began...
Donald Dynda
Sep 27, 2014
Donald Arthur Dynda was born October 2, 1931 at the home of his parents, Joseph and Lillian Dynda in rural Alexandria. He attended a one-room elementary school in Lake Mary Township and graduated from the Alexandria High School in 1950. 0n December 13, 1952 he was united in marriage to Helen Glaas. After graduating from the MacPhail School of Music,...
John Kern
Sep 26, 2014
OBITUARY John Francis Kern was born in Hibbing, MN, the son of John and Jessie (Scofield) Kern on November 23rd, 1933. After graduating from Corvallis, MT High School, he worked for the Forest Service before joining the U.S. Navy. After being discharged, John worked as a meat cutter in a locker plant in Upsala where he met his future wife,...
Sharon Herzog
Sep 16, 2014
Sharon Louise was born on May 13, 1943, in Alexandria, Minnesota the fourth child of Lloyd and Lenora (Mattson) Berglin. The bond between her and her two sisters was exceptional, it started as young children when they would walk together to a one room school house. At the age of 15 Sharon moved to town and worked at Our Lady...
