Obituaries
Vera Emma Olson
Mar 6, 2007
Vera Emma Koffarnus was born on Jan. 7, 1917 in Welcome Village, MN to Joseph and Martha (Borchardt). She attended country school at Fox Lake. On Jan. 9, 1938 Vera was united in marriage to Lawrence Oswalt at the Welcome American Lutheran Parsonage. They had one son, Wells Oswalt. They farmed by Dolliver, IA and later divorced. Vera married Gordon...
Wendell Myers
Feb 28, 2007
Funeral services for Wendell Myers, 81, of Truman, formerly of Ceylon, will be held on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 1:30 pm at the Lutheran Retirement Home Chapel, Truman. Interment will take place at Lake Belt Cemetery, rural Ceylon. Mr. Myers died Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Visitation will be held on Monday, March 5,...
Dr. Malcolm James Lester
Feb 21, 2007
Malcolm James Lester, Jr. was born on October 4, 1923 in St. James, MN to Malcolm Sr. and Lillian (Grundeen) Lester. He graduated from St. James High School in 1941. Mac attended college at Macalester in the pre-med acceleration program. In 1942 he joined the US Navy in the B-12 program and was sent to boot camp at Great Lakes...
Helen Jane Lopez Neuenfeldt
Feb 8, 2007
Helen Jane Neuenfeldt was born on April 29, 1950 in Mankato, MN to William and Ursula (Urban) Neuenfeldt. She was baptized at St. John's Lutheran Church-Antrim and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Lewisville. She attended school in Lewisville and Truman. Helen moved to Rosemount, MN to live with her brother and help with his children. She moved back to...
Gudron M. Reis
Jan 24, 2007
Gudron Marie Leng was born on November 5, 1900 to John and Bertha (Johnson) Leng in Lee, Illinois. As a small child she moved with her family to a farm in Waverly Township, Martin County, MN. Gudron attended country school at Dist. 122 and Truman High School. She later worked as a housekeeper and at the bank in Truman. On...
Edna Marguerite Johanna Buchan
Jan 21, 2007
Edna Marguerite Johanna Lund was born on January 15, 1909 in Cedar Falls, Iowa to Hans and Marie Johannson Lund. As a child she moved with her family to Emmet County, IA near Ringsted. She attended Halpha School. On June 18, 1932 she married Myron "Jim? Buchan in Sioux Falls, SD. Together they farmed near Ceylon, MN. In 1958 they...
Dwight Dean Howell
Jan 9, 2007
Dwight Dean Howell was born on March 18, 1928 in Rutland Township, rural Northrop, MN to E.H. and Meta (Jorgensen) Howell. His family moved to the current farm in Westford Township when Dwight was one year old. He attended the country school that was located on the farm. Dwight lived and farmed on that same farm his entire life. On...
Della Borkenhagen
Jan 9, 2007
Della Gieseke was born on December 9, 1920 in Northrop, MN to Harry and Mabel (Lidke) Gieseke. She attended grade school in Northrop and graduated from Fairmont High School. On April 14, 1940 Della married Ervin Borkenhagen at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fairmont. They lived in Truman for one year where Ervin worked for Jennings Blacksmith. Ervin and Della...
Helen M. Aistrope
Jan 6, 2007
Helen was born in Boise Idaho, December 12, 1910. She grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska before meeting her future husband, Loren Aistrope. They were married on Christmas Day, 1931 and resided in Sioux City, Iowa until 1958 when Helen and Loren moved to Fairmont, Minnesota and became among the first neighborhood residents to settle...
LaVerta Anola Riewe
Jan 4, 2007
Funeral services for LaVerta A. Riewe, 90, Truman, formerly of Vernon Center, MN, will be held on Monday, January 8th, 2007 at St. John's Lutheran Church-Willow Creek, at 10:30 am. Interment will follow in the church North cemetery. LaVerta died on Thursday, January 4th, 2007 at the Lutheran Manor in Truman. Visitation will be held on Sunday, January 7th, 2007...
John Adam Jorgenson
Dec 29, 2006
John Adam Jorgenson was born March 11, 1937 in Truman, MN, to Marvin Palmer and Hulda Augusta (Breitbarth) Jorgenson. He was baptized and confirmed at Waverly Lutheran Church, rural Trimont. John attended country school dist. 121 and dist. 54. John worked at the Truman Drug Store during high school. He graduated from Truman High School and attended South Dakota State...
William Frederick Merrill Neilson
Dec 29, 2006
William Frederick Merrill Neilson was born on September 13, 1924 in Keene, New Hampshire. He became a resident of the Lutheran Retirement Home in Truman on April 7, 2004. Mr. Neilson is surviveed by his sister, Leigh Boutin and her husband Coogan of Lebanon, New Hampshire. William is also survived by his son, Stephan Dion of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and...
Rodney D. Tonn
Dec 28, 2006
Rodney D. Tonn was born on February 23rd, 1945 in Winnebago, MN to Lorenz and Addeline (Schulz) Tonn. He attended parochial school at St. John's Lutheran School-Willow Creek. He graduated from high school in March of 1963 at the Southern School of Agriculture in Waseca. He attended the University of Minnesota. On June 19th, 1965 Rodney married Diane LeMae Moeller...
Viola Christina Marie Small
Dec 25, 2006
Viola Christina Marie Kleinschrodt was born November 30, 1916 to Ollie and Katherine Kleinschrodt in rural Martin County, Pleasant Prairie Township. She grew up on the farm with her brother LeRoy. She attended Granada High School, graduating in 1935. On June 4, 1939 she married Don Small in Fairmont. They lived in Oregon during military service time in the U.S....
Emmett R. Anderson
Dec 2, 2006
Emmett Ray Anderson was born on October 22, 1917, in Dolliver, IA, to Nels and Ida (Luscombe) Anderson. On February 11th, 1942, he married Twila Jean Ricard in Jackson, MN. Following their marriage they farmed near Dolliver, IA. In 1944 they moved to a farm near Trimont, MN. In the fall of 1945 they moved to a farm near East...
Elvera Dorothy Wegner
Nov 30, 2006
Elvera Dorothy Urban was born September 1, 1926, at Willow Creek, MN to Gustav and Helen (Ulrich) Urban. She attended St. John's Lutheran Parochial School-Willow Creek. On November 25th, 1943 she was united in marriage to Elvin Carl Wegner at St. John's Lutheran Church-Willow Creek, rural Vernon Center, MN. They farmed in Truman for ten years and moved to Amboy...
Orie L. Davis
Nov 17, 2006
Orie L. Davis was born on December 7th, 1922 to Clarence and Alma (Sosinski) Davis in rural Lewisville, MN. He attended Country School District 17 in rural Lewisville. Orie began farming as a teenager. On April 9th, 1944, Orie was married to Frieda Riewe at St. John's Lutheran Church-Willow Creek. They continued to farm near Lewisville until his retirement in...
Donald Raphael Peterson
Nov 13, 2006
Don was born on December 24, 1919, in Estherville, Iowa, grew up in the Fairmont area, graduated from Shattuck Military Academy in 1939, then entered the U.S. Army Air Corps and graduated from the Stockton, CA Advanced Training. He was a pilot and flew 53 missions in the European theatre during World War II. Upon his return, in January, 1944,...
Ralph Elton Lewis
Nov 6, 2006
Ralph Elton Lewis was born on September 1, 1919, at the family farm, Lewisville, MN, to Verne and Lillian (Halvorson) Lewis. He attended country school and graduated from St. James High School. On September 10, 1939, Ralph was married to Esther Kuhlman at Zion Lutheran Church, Lewisville. They farmed in rural Lewisville. He joined the U.S. Airforce, Nov. 1942 and...
Riley Mark Dahlberg
Nov 6, 2006
Riley Mark Dahlberg, 3, of Wahpeton, ND died Monday, November 6, 2006, in an automobile accident. He was welcomed into the world by Blake and Christina Dahlberg on June 30, 2003 at 1:37 p.m. in Fairmont, MN. He weighed 8 lbs. 14 oz. and was 23 inches long. Riley gave us so much joy in the short time he was...
