Obituaries
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...
Tamara Noding
Sep 5, 2011
Tamara Noding Tamara Lee Noding was born in Appleton, Minnesota, on July 7, 1960, the daughter of Orville and Eunice (Polk) Noding. She attended Danvers Elementary School and graduated from Benson High School in 1978. She continued her education at the Alexandria Technical College where she graduated with a degree in Truck Driving. Tammy drove over the road for a...
Bolin Stumpf
Sep 5, 2011
Judith Stumpf Bolin of Alexandria passed away September 5, 2011. She was born near Fairmount, ND on January 29, 1938 to Clifford and Jessie West and graduated from Tintah High School. On July 18, 1959, she married Larry Stumpf. Together, they farmed near Nashua. Always preferring the outdoors, Judy rode horses and motorcycles and enjoyed participating fully in every aspect...
Roger Moore
Sep 3, 2011
Roger Leroy Moore died Saturday, September 3, 2011 at his home after a year-long battle with cancer. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, September 9, 2011 at the First Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Minnesota. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at church. Roger was born October 30, 1939 in Fort Madison,...
David Tolifson
Sep 2, 2011
David Lee Tolifson son of Leslie and Deloris (Polzin) Tolifson was born on November 14, 1940 at home in Holloway during the Armistice Day blizzard. In his younger years he loved riding his horse ?Silver? at the farm in Appleton, which his mother even made him leather saddle bags. David attended school in Morris. The family moved to a farm...
Esther Lamb
Sep 1, 2011
Esther Viola Lamb, 96, died on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at Bethany Community in Alexandria, her home for the past ten years, following a long illness. A funeral service was held Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at First Lutheran Church in Alexandria MN. Reverend Greg Billberg officiated. Karen Gladen and Randy Morken provided music. Interment followed on Thursday in Mount Hope...
Florence Woolliscroft
Aug 28, 2011
Florence M. Woolliscroft, age 99, died on August 28, 2011 at Clare Bridge Senior Living facility in Ann Arbor, MI. Prior to moving to Michigan in 2003 she had been a long time resident of Alexandria. Florence, the eldest of five children, was born July 23, 1912 in Elizabeth, MN to Rudolph and Lydia (Boese) Borck. She was baptized and...
Kenneth Norlien
Aug 27, 2011
Kenneth Willard Norlien was born on June 30, 1919 the son of Art and Christine (Johnson) Norlien in Solem Township, Douglas County, Minnesota. He attended country school in rural Kensington. Ken enlisted in the United States Navy and servied during WWII. On March 29, 1947 he was united in marriage to Doris Rorvig in Farwell, MN. The couple farmed in...
Ed Flanigan
Aug 26, 2011
Edward Emmet Flanigan was born November 29, 1917 to John and Theresa Flanigan in Seattle, Washington. He was drafted into the Army which he said was the happiest day of his life as he was working as a stenographer for a bank in Seattle at the time. He was assigned to the Presidio and Camp Beal in California where he...
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