Obituaries
Joan Bjerknes
May 4, 2014
Joan ?Jo? Kathryn (Koenecke) Bjerknes was born on August 27, 1934 to Frank and Elizabeth (Chworowsky) Koenecke. Jo graduated from Sherburne High School in 1952. She attended Mankato State and started teaching. She finished her schooling during the summers and graduated in 1956 with a degree in elementary education. During her teaching years she mostly taught 4th graders in various...
Patricia Heidelberger
May 3, 2014
Patricia Lucille Heidelberger passed away May 3, 2014, at Mountain Vista Hospital in Apache Junction, AZ. Pat was born on September 22, 1948, the daughter of Michael and Marie (Doebber) Lanigan at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Alexandria. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Mary?s Church in Alexandria. She graduated from Jefferson Sr. High School in 1966 and...
Richard Bahe
May 3, 2014
Richard, the second of eight children born to Ernest and Marie (Pommerening) Bahe, was born near Elrosa, Minnesota on August 21, 1928. He was baptized and confirmed at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Belgrade. He attended a one-room country school for eight years and then Belgrade High School where he graduated in 1945. After staying out of school and working for...
Florian Roers
May 2, 2014
Florian Michael Roers was born on July 17, 1919, in Millerville, Minnesota the son of Joseph and Mathilda (Woida) Roers. He attended St. Mary?s Catholic School in Millerville. Florian was united in marriage to Lenora Mary Thoennes on October 16, 1941, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Urbank. The couple had a dairy farm where they raised their seven children....
Dorothy Bundy
Apr 30, 2014
Dorothy ?Kitty? Lillian (Hove) Bundy, age 90, passed away peacefully on April 30, 2014. She was born in Alexandria to Clifford and Lillian Hove on April 23, 1924. She was a graduate of Alexandria High School, class of ?42. She attended Hamline University and received her RN degree after completing her nurses training at Asbury Hospital. Kitty was a member...
Mary Weiland
Apr 29, 2014
Mary Weiland, 88, passed away Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in Alexandria. Mary Anna Karels was born on August 31, 1925 in Bellingham, Minnesota the daughter of John and Lena (Stoick) Karels. She was the second youngest of nine children. Mary graduated from Bellingham High School in 1943. She began a long career with the Telephone Company while living in California...
Harold Blakesley
Apr 29, 2014
Harold Richard Blakesley, son of Ralph and Edith (Wallace) Blakesley, was born December 27, 1931 in Willmar, Minnesota, a middle child of six children. He graduated from the West Central School of Agriculture in Morris in 1948, and stayed to attend one year of advanced courses through 1949. Harold served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955, doing...
Andrew Timm
Apr 27, 2014
Timm, Andrew R. age 27, of Cincinnati, OH, formerly of Allen, TX, born in Bloomington, MN on July 15, 1986, died on Sunday, April 27, 2014. Family moved to Allen, TX in 1997 where he was a graduate of Allen High School and college graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a BS in Computer Science. Employee of...
Rebecca Koetter
Apr 26, 2014
Rebecca Ann Wicklum was born February 24, 1954 in Minneapolis, MN, the daughter of Edward and Mary (Bedtke) Wicklum. She grew up in Rosemount, MN where she graduated high school. Following high school Rebecca served in the United States Army. After being discharged from the Army Rebecca returned to Minnesota and began raising her family. She was blessed with three...
Frank Tvrdik
Apr 24, 2014
Frank Joseph Tvrdik was born December 10, 1924 in Lake Mary Township, MN, the son of Frank and Barbara (Kalina) Tvrdik. He was raised and schooled in Lake Mary Township. Following his schooling Frank worked on the family farm. On August 13, 1945 Frank was united in marriage to Clara Danelke at Our Lady of Seven Dolors Parish House in...
Frances Becklund
Apr 23, 2014
Frances Margaret (Olson) Becklund was born September 7, 1923 in Hillsboro, ND, the daughter of Pedor and Hannah (Peterson) Olson. She grew up in Fosston, MN, where she graduated from high school. When Frances was 17 years old, her father Pedor died. After high school, Frances moved to Minneapolis with her mother. Hannah worked as a seamstress. Frances got a...
George Poirier
Apr 16, 2014
OBITUARY George Stuart Poirier, the son of Ray and Faye (Taggert) Poirier, was born on August 24, 1929 in Bismarck, ND. George and his family moved to Montevideo, MN where he graduated from high school in 1947. He enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Korean War. He returned home and purchased ?The Daily Reminder" from his...
Robert Koch
Apr 16, 2014
Robert LeRoy was born on December 23, 1933, in Excelsior, Minnesota the son of Roy and Ethel (Radvenz) Koch. He graduated from Shakopee High School in 1951. Robert was united in marriage to Marlene Peterson on September 7, 1957, at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Hopkins. To this union four children were born. The Koch family resided in Shakopee where Bob...
Albert Henrickson
Apr 13, 2014
Albert Phillip Henrickson, a life-long resident of Birchdale, MN, died April 13,2014, on his 94th birthday at Grand Arbor in Alexandria MN. A memorial service will be held April 19, 2014, at 11:00 AM at the United Congregational Church in Birchdale. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Rev. John Tschudy will officiate. Albert was born April 13,...
Roger Doty
Apr 13, 2014
Roger Steven Doty was born June 17, 1938 in Elgin, IL, the son of Denzil and Fern (Brockner) Doty. He grew up and attended school in Elgin. After graduating from Elgin High School, Roger worked on a survey crew for Illinois toll roads. Later he worked as a laborer painting water tanks. Roger went into a partnership on a bar...
Alice Baumann
Apr 12, 2014
OBITUARY Alice Margaret Baumann was born August 10, 1918 on a farm near Armstrong, Iowa to Christian and Nora Welte. The family moved to a farm in Martin County near Fairmont, MN in 1923 and she attended a country school in Pleasant Prairie. Alice graduated from Granada High School and then the Humboldt Business College in Minneapolis, MN. She worked...
Lamont Mounsdon
Apr 11, 2014
Lamont Russell Mounsdon was born on February 6, 1923, the son of Russell and Rose Mounsdon. When Lamont was a young child his family moved to Iowa where they lived a short while and then moved back to Alexandria. He graduated from Alexandria High School in 1941. After graduation he worked on his parents farm until entering the Army with...
Duane Lokken
Apr 11, 2014
OBITUARY Duane Harold Lokken was born the son of Harold and Margaret (Johnson) Lokken on February 2, 1941 in New Effington, SD. He attended and graduated from Cyrus High School in 1959. Duane married Diane Payne on December 21, 1959 in Cyrus, MN. Together they had three children Todd, Stephanie, and Debra. Duane worked at the Cyrus Grain Elevator until...
Maybel Czapiewski
Apr 9, 2014
OBITUARY Maybel Caroline Czapiewski, the daughter of Chris and Anna (Skavlem) Oas, was born on March 23, 1915 in Oslo, MN. She graduated from Oslo High School in 1933 and continued her education at a business school in Park River, ND. She subsequently worked as a bookkeeper at the Robertson Lumber Company in Grand Forks, ND. Maybel was united in...
Donald Mike
Apr 7, 2014
Donald Mike age 86 of Alexandria passed away peacefully and unexpectedly at Knute Nelson Nursing Home April 7, 2014 Donald Willmar Mike was born July 11, 1927 in Alexandria, MN. He was the first child born to Willmar and Esther (Heikkinen) Mike. He was baptized and confirmed at St Paul?s Lutheran Church, Moe Township. He grew up on the family...
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