Laura Rosa Kueker

Laura R. Kueker, age 91, passed away on Friday, April 3, 2026 at Heartland Senior Living, Truman, MN. Funeral services will be held at 2 PM on Friday, April 10, 2026 at St. John's Lutheran Church, South Branch, rural Saint James, MN, with Rev. Matthew Rusert officiating. A time for visitation will be held an hour prior to the service. Burial will take place in the church cemetery. 

Laura Rosa (Lange) Kueker was born August 6, 1934 to William, F. Lange and Ella (Lupke) Lange. She was baptized on August 19, 1934 and confirmed on May 2, 1948 at St. John’s Missouri Synod Lutheran Church of South Branch. She attended St. John’s Parochial School in South Branch until the eighth grade. She then graduated from St. James High School in 1952. On October 20, 1985, Laura married Adolph Kueker also at St. John’s Lutheran Church in South Branch, living on the farm and later moving to Truman. After 20 years of marriage, Adolph passed away after just moving to town. Laura loved being with family and friends. Her closest friends were Lois Heckman, Carol Heckman, Sylvia Burmeister, MaryAnn Krumrei, Irene Kietzer and lastly neighborhood friend, Shirley Rohman along with her granddaughter, who sometimes called her, Grandma. Her faith and belief in God were always uppermost in her life,as she was a lifetime member of her Church’s Ladies Aid.

 She will be missed and survived by her sisters, Beverly (Eric) Hirsimaki, Bert (Dennis) Geertsema; her nieces, Jenny DeWall, Amy Hirsimaki, Adrienne (D.J.) Kruzer, Jolene (Mike) White, Dawn (Scott) Halverson, Ramona (Steve) Hansen, Karla (Mitch) Doll and nephews, Dennis (Barb) Geertsema Jr. and David Hirsimaki and many great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews of both, the Lange and Kueker families. Also, she is survived by two Kueker brothers-in-law, Ted (Dorothy) Kueker and George Kueker. 

Laura was preceded in death by her husband Adolph; her parents; one sister, Florence Lange; brother, Wilbur Lange and one Lange sister-in-law, Delores Lange. She was also preceded in death by Kueker sisters-in-law, Annetta Sexe, Delores Brandt and Marthy Frank, Marcella Kueker, LaVonne Kueker, and Bonnie Kueker; brothers-in-law Martin Kueker, Vern Kueker and Gene Kueker.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to St. John’s Cemetery perpetual care fund or St. John’s Lutheran Church.