Obituaries
RLou Olson
Jan 15, 2017
RLou M. Olson age 88 of Alexandria died on Sunday, January 15, 2017 at the Douglas County Hospital. A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at Zion Lutheran Church at 1PM. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 from 4-7PM at the Anderson Funeral Home and also for one hour prior to the service...
Elizabeth Gillen
Jan 15, 2017
Elizabeth "Liz" Ann Gillen was born on September 14, 1933, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, the daughter of Henry and Margaret (Keough) O'Hotto. She graduated from Alexandria High School in 1951 and furthered her education at the College of St. Benedict. She was united in marriage to Floyd Gillen on May 29, 1954, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria. To...
William Bahe
Jan 12, 2017
William Ernest Edward Bahe was born January 23, 1934 in Belgrade, MN, the son of Ernest and Marie (Pommerening) Bahe. Bill grew up on a farm near Elrosa, MN. He was baptized and confirm at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Belgrade. Bill attended school in Belgrade where he graduated from high school in 1951. Following his schooling Bill took jobs erecting...
Jack Schneider
Jan 9, 2017
Jon "Jack" Schneider was born on August 28, 1997, in Little Rock, Arkansas the son of Jon & Heather (Lyon) Schneider. He was baptized at the First United Methodist Church in Stuttgart, Arkansas. When Jack was two, his family moved to Alexandria, Minnesota where he excelled in school and athletics. Jack was a true student leader at Alexandria Area High...
Noy Wagner
Jan 8, 2017
A Mass of Christian Burial take place on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 11:00 AM at the Our Lady of Seven Dolars Church in Millerville. A visitation will take place on Thursday, January 19, 2017 from 4:00PM to 7:00 PM at the Anderson Funeral Home in Alexandria and also one hour prior to Mass at the church. Noy Veronica Wagner...
John Miller
Jan 8, 2017
John Daniel Miller age 30 of St. Paul, formerly of Alexandria, passed away Sunday, January 8, 2017. A memorial service will take place on Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 11:00 AM at the Calvary Lutheran Church in Alexandria. A visitation will take place on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Anderson Funeral Home and...
Arlene Ohland
Jan 6, 2017
Memorial service will be Friday, January 20, 2017 at the Anderson Funeral Home at 1:00 PM. A visitation will take place that day from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM at the funeral home. Arlene Ohland was born on April 3, 1928 one of thirteen children to Charles and Caroline (Sturm) Schmidgall of Hancock, Minnesota. On May 28, 1947 Arlene married...
Tamara Reignier
Jan 5, 2017
Tamara "Tammie" Jean (Amundsen) Reignier was born in Minneapolis, MN on Dec. 8, 1962 to Gerald and Jola (Rhodes) Amundsen. She was baptized at Elim Lutheran Church in Robbinsdale. At the age of 4 the family moved to Alexandria. Tammie was confirmed at First Lutheran Church in Alexandria. During Junior and Senior High she loved playing her guitar, playing tennis...
Joseph Scattarelli
Dec 31, 2016
Joseph Charles Scattarelli, the son of Robert and Virginia (Forcier) Scattarelli, was born on May 7, 1962 in Edina, MN. He grew up in Bloomington and graduated from Kennedy High School in 1980. Joe started working for Delegard Tool Repair in Bloomington, MN in 1979. He began his career by repairing tools before working his way up to Service Manager...
Edna Kluver
Dec 28, 2016
The world lost an amazing woman on December 28th, 2016 with the passing of Edna Kluver, 93 of Forada, MN. Edna was blessed with 93 spring seasons and enjoyed spending time in her garden around Lake Harlan. She was humble and kind, and even a little stubborn. She would blame that on that Swedish blood. She was the daughter of...
Rusty Lommen
Dec 28, 2016
Bernadine Ann (Rusty) Lommen was born October 7, 1929 in Echo MN daughter of Stanford and Josephine (Maakestad) Holland. She grew up in Echo and graduated in 1947. Rusty moved to Alexandria in 1948 where she met Adrian Lommen at First Lutheran Church. There they sang in the choir and performed duets together. Rusty and Adrian were married in 1949....
Lavern Blackledge
Dec 27, 2016
Lavern Willis Blackledge was born on October 25, 1926 in Fairmount, North Dakota to Willis and Wilma (Menge) Blackledge. He attended school in Traverse County through the eighth grade. Vern then helped do farm work for his father and other local farmers. He enlisted in the Army in September of 1945 and served during WWII in Munich, Germany and was...
Ruth Zwiers
Dec 24, 2016
Ruth Ann Ploeger was born in Ledyard, IA on May 5, 1939 to Fred and Hulda Ploeger. She grew up in Ledyard and attended Ledyard schools where she graduated from high school. Ruth furthered her education at Augsberg College and Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis. She graduated as a Registered Nurse. After graduation she worked as an RN at Deaconess...
Dorothy Johnson
Dec 24, 2016
Dorothy Lydia Johnson was born on August 1, 1922, the daughter of Walter and Lydia (Johnson) Youngner in Nelson, MN. She attended grade school in Nelson, MN and then graduated from Central High School. She continued her education and received a teaching degree from St. Cloud State College. She worked for various rural schools before meeting the love of her...
Olive Hagstrom
Dec 22, 2016
Olive Ann Hagstrom was born April 22, 1928 in Lowry, MN, the daughter of Clarence and Mae (Femrite) Hagstrom. She attended school in Lowry and graduated from Glenwood High School. Olive attended Concordia College in Moorhead, MN where she graduated with a degree in home economics. In 1950 she began teaching in Madelia, MN In 1952 Olive moved to Marshall,...
William Pahan
Dec 20, 2016
William Craig Pahan, the son of William and Jeanie (Hanson) Pahan, was born on March 2, 1971 in Alexandria, MN. He graduated from Jefferson High School in 1990 and then continued his education at Detroit Lakes Technical College. He lived in Alexandria most of his life and worked at Pro Maintenance cleaning commercial buildings. William was a quiet man who...
Martha Fredrickson
Dec 20, 2016
Martha was born May 9, 1921 on a farm near Brandon, Minnesota to Finnish Immigrants, Hilda and Andrew Hulkonen. She was one of eight children and spent her early life on the farm. At age twenty- four, she moved to Minneapolis and worked until she retired in 1986. Martha had a deep faith and believed in Resurrection and Eternal life...
Karen Rapp
Dec 17, 2016
Karen Lynn (Kofstad) Rapp was born in Warroad, MN on September 21st, 1948 as the youngest of 14 children. She grew up on the Canadian border and recalled waking up to snow on her bed at times. Fortunately, she had numerous sisters in bed with her to keep her warm, although she has always hated being cold as a result....
David Quast
Dec 12, 2016
David Keith Quast was born March 30, 1955 in Alexandria, MN, the son of Raymond and Mary (Maloney) Quast. He was raised and schooled in Alexandria. David worked as a custodian for the schools and later for the Eagle's Club before becoming fully disabled. He was able to remain independent and lived in Garfield and more recently in Alexandria. In...
Wilma Carlson
Dec 11, 2016
Wilma Irene Anderson was born on June 5, 1921 to Emil & Dora Alice Anderson in Lake Crystal, Minnesota. She was the seventh of eight children. Wilma had the opportunity to take piano lessons as a child which led to her accompanying the choir at church, choirs and soloists at school and whenever a pianist was needed as she was...
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