Barbara Gene (Skaug) Vik
Mar 1, 1966
Barbara Gene Skaug was born in Clarkfield, Minnesota, on December 3, 1925. She graduated from high school in 1943. She and a friend went to Seattle, Washington, to work at the Boeing Aircraft factory in 1943. She worked at Mork Hardware for several years before her marriage to Kermit Olaf Vik in 1961. Barbara started a beauty shop in...
Helmer Joseph Nelson
Feb 23, 1966
Helmer Joseph Nelson was born December 14, 1893, the son of Haaken and Bertha (Haakenson) Nelson, in Ten Mile Lake Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. He attended school in district 30, northwest of Boyd and in district 90, southeast of Boyd. He farmed all his life. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church of Boyd, the...
Ida Bertha Riediger Pipke
Feb 18, 1966
Ida Bertha Pipke of Montevideo, Minnesota, was born October 5, 1893, in Omro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Gustav and Bertha (Heintze) Riediger. She was united in marriage to Wilhelm Pipke, who preceded her in death. She passed away February 18, 1966, at the Chippewa County Montevideo Hospital at the age of 72 years. Survivors include...
Clara Sirine Kompelien Martinson
Feb 14, 1966
Mrs. Clara Sirine Martinson was born on September 26, 1887, in Westerheim Township, Lyon County, Minnesota, the daughter of Ole and Siri (Thon) Kompelien. She was baptized by Pastor Thorstensen and confirmed by Pastor Romstad in St. Lucas Lutheran Church. On June 27, 1914, she was united in marriage to Albert Martinson of Normania Township and to this union,...
Pfc Derlyn Reinhold Edmund Lehmann
Feb 7, 1966
Derlyn Reinhold Edmund Lehmann was born on November 8, 1942, when his parents resided on their farm located eleven miles west and two north of Clarkfield in Maxwell Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. He was baptized by Rev. Louis Rosin and confirmed on May 5, 1957, by Rev. W.A. Haag. His father, Reuben Lehmann, passed away in 1952...
Alice Sophie Anderson Johnson
Jan 22, 1966
Alice Sophie Anderson was the oldest daughter of Albert and Nellie (Rudell) Anderson. She was born October 27, 1903, at Clarkfield, Minnesota. She was baptized by Rev. C.E. Shaleen and confirmed by Rev. E.O. Valberg at the Fridhem Lutheran Church in Tyro Township. There she was a member until she joined her present church. On September 15, 1920, she...
Zephr Boudreau
Jan 17, 1966
Zephr Boudreau was born July 19, 1894, in Concordia, Kansas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boudreau. Mr. Boudreau worked in a defense plant in Hastings, Nebraska in 1944. He trained horses as a vocation most of his life. His horse training and driving took him over much of the United States. In about 1946, he came to...
Gustaf Edvin Johnson
Dec 25, 1965
Mr. Gustaf Edvin Johnson was born in Sweden, September 11, 1876, the son of Johana and Augusta (Ryden) Ferdinnanson. In 1889, together with a brother, Alfred, and a sister, Hilda (now Mrs. Peter Vold), he came to Hazel Run to the home of a cousin, Mrs. E.H. Olson. He passed away December 25, 1965, at General Hospital, Minneapolis, at...
Christiana (Gottskalkson) Hofteig
Dec 14, 1965
Christiana Adalbjorg Gottskalkson Hofteig was born February 9, 1897, in Lincoln County, Minnesota, the daughter of H.G. and Ingeborg (Foss) Gottskalkson. Her early life was spent in Lincoln County where she was educated in the rural schools and the public school in Ivanhoe. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lincoln Lutheran Church. On December 15, 1915, she was...
Mabel Helen Jorgenson Larson
Nov 29, 1965
Mrs. Fred O. Larson of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, passed away at the Sioux Falls Hospital, Monday evening, November 29, 1965, after several months of illness, at the age of 72 years. Mrs. Larson, the former Mabel Jorgenson, is a sister of Marvin Jorgenson of Clarkfield, Minnesota. Mabel, the daughter of Bernt and Ida (Severts) Jorgenson, was born October...
Robert Jacob Benson
Nov 29, 1965
Robert Jacob Benson, son of Knute and Johanna (Saure) Benson, was born February 24, 1891, in Brown County at Hecla, South Dakota. He was baptized the same year by Rev. L.H. Bueide. At two years of age he moved with his family to a farm near Echo, Minnesota, and was confirmed at the Rock Valley Lutheran Church by Rev....
Thebert Ferdinand Sheveland
Nov 19, 1965
Thebert Ferdinand Sheveland, the son of Wilhelm and Britta (Chilson) Sheveland, was born February 3, 1899, in Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. He was baptized March 22, 1899, at the Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church by Rev. Guerning and confirmed his faith in the same congregation before Rev. Ole Lokensgaard. He lived with his family south of Hanley Falls...
Louise (Loken) Barnes
Oct 30, 1965
Louise Loken Barnes was born at Clarkfield, Minnesota, on July 7, 1891, the daughter of Lars and Marie (Auflem) Loken. She taught school in Yellow Medicine County for eighteen years and served as county superintendent of schools prior to Clara Thorpe. In 1934, she was united in marriage to Charles P. Barnes of Oelwein, Iowa, and resided in that...
Carl Rysdahl
Oct 28, 1965
Carl Rysdahl was born July 24, 1888, on a farm in Friendship Township, about 2 1/2 miles south of Clarkfield to parents Anders and Marie Eide Rysdahl. He was baptized and confirmed in the Clarkfield Lutheran Church of which he has been a member all his life. After his father retired he and his brother Lewis continued to work...
Hannah Thea Benson Rysdahl
Oct 25, 1965
Hannah Thea Rysdahl, daughter of Knute and Johanna (Saure) Benson, was born November 26, 1889, at Hecla, Brown County, South Dakota. She was baptized the same year by Rev. Bueide and confirmed October 16, 1904, at Rock Valley Church near Echo, Minnesota, by Rev. M.B. Ericksen. In 1893, she moved with her parents to a farm near Echo and...
Sverre Neraasen
Oct 25, 1965
Sverre Neraasen was born on November 12, 1904, at Vardal, Gjovik, Norway, the son of Bernt and Syverine Neraasen. As a child, he was baptized and on October 15, 1919, confirmed in the Lutheran faith by Rev. Kvarving at the Hauga Lutheran Church in Norway. Together with his older brother, Peter, Sverre came to America at the age of...
Carl Wilhelm Rydeen
Oct 25, 1965
Carl William Rydeen was born August 28, 1880, at Skaraborg, Lun, Sweden, the son of John and Ann Rydeen. He was baptized and confirmed by Rev. Olander in the Lurg Church of Sweden. In the summer of 1906, at the age of 26 years, he sailed for America and came to Clarkfield, Minnesota, where he worked for C. Axel...
Lori Ann Swenson
Oct 18, 1965
Lori Ann Swenson, the daughter of Eldon and Virginia (Hanson) Swenson, was born October 12, 1965, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She passed away October 18, 1965, at her Minneapolis home, at the age of six days. Surviors include her parents, maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alton Hanson of Clarkfield, Minnesota. Funeral Services Wednesday, October 20, 1965, 2:00 p.m. Welander Quist...
Henry Holm
Oct 13, 1965
Henry Holm, of Dawson, Minnesota, was born July 31, 1887, at Chandler, Minnesota, the son of Morris and Inga (Larson) Holm. Mr. Holm is survived by his wife, Gertrude Holm of Dawson. He passed away October 13, 1965, at the Chippewa County Montevideo Hospital at the age of 78 years. IN MEMORY OF HENRY HOLM July 31, 1887 ~...
Alfred Samuel Brenden
Oct 13, 1965
Alfred Samuel Brenden was born at Albaton, Iowa, on August 15, 1891, the son of Helge and Marit (Dokken) Brenden. He was baptized in the Skien Lutheran Church at Albaton, Iowa. The family moved to a farm in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, in 1904, and the following year, he was confirmed at St. Lucas Lutheran Church by...
