Annie Gjertine (Droen) Smolley
Feb 22, 1951
Anna Gjertine Droen was born August 18, 1883, the daughter of Anders and Inger (Olson) Droen, on the Droen homestead north of Clarkfield, Minnesota. She was baptized in Bergen Church by Rev. K. Thorstenson and confirmed October 16th, 1898, in the Clarkfield Norwegian Lutheran Church by Rev. Farseth. On November 13, 1907, she was united in marriage to Andrew...
Becky Kae Moen
Feb 13, 1951
Becky Kae Moen was born February 13, 1951, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, the daughter of Palmer Moen and Marjorie Runyon Moen. She died February 13, 1951, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital. Survivors include her parents. Graveside Services Wednesday, February 14, 1951, 4:00 p.m. Our Saviour's Lutheran Cemetery, Baxter Township Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota Clergy Officiating,...
Annie Mathilda (Swanson) Doese
Feb 11, 1951
Annie Mathilda Doese was born on December 15, 1895, to parents, Andrew and Mathea (Olson) Swanson. Her parents were from Sweden. She was raised on her parents farm in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. As a young girl, she was baptized and later confirmed at Swede Home Lutheran Church. She attended rural school. Edwin Dahl and Annie...
Joanne Mae (Moe) [Grinager] Dotseth
Feb 10, 1951
Joanne Mae Moe was born May 8, 1932 in Montevideo, MN to parents Arnold and Alice (Lanes) Moe. She grew up in Montevideo and graduated from Montevideo High School in 1950. Joanne married LuVerne Grinager on February 10, 1951. To this union were born five children: Jill, Ann, Sue, Lee, and Gay. LuVerne and Joanne owned and operated a...
Randy (Anderson) Steffenson
Jan 15, 1951
Mrs. Randy Anderson Forthun Steffenson was born December 9, 1873, south of Albert Lea, Minnesota, the daughter of Johanes Anderson and Margret Oren Anderson. When she was three years of age, she moved with her parents to Frost, Minnesota, where she lived until her marriage June 15, 1896, to George Steffenson. They moved to a farm near Blue Earth,...
Eugene Herbert Koepp
Jan 12, 1951
Eugene Herbert Koepp was born April 12, 1950, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Herbert H. and Flora (Garrison) Koepp. Baby Eugene passed away January 12, 1951, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, at the age of nine months. Survivors include his parents. Funeral Services Monday, January 15, 1951, 2:00 p.m. Zion Lutheran Church, Tyro Township...
Elmer Olam Haaland
Jan 10, 1951
Elmer O. Haaland was born on February 14, 1888, near Cambridge, Story County, Iowa, the son of Solomon J. and Karen Elizabeth (Shefveland) Haaland. He was baptized by Rev. H. C. Holm and confirmed by Rev. L.O. Fossum in 1903 at Slayton, Minnesota. His death was caused by a coronary heart attack. He passed away January 10, 1951, at...
Walter Clifford Gustafson
Jan 8, 1951
Walter Clifford Gustafson was born July 8, 1902, in Hazel Run Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of John and Emelie (Carlson) Gustafson. Walter met Thelma Renstrom while she was working as a housekeeper for his parents. They were married at Warren, Minnesota, in the 1930s and lived on a farm north of Hanley Falls. They were the...
Harlan Leslie Groehler
Dec 31, 1950
Harlan Leslie Groehler was born August 12, 1902, in Clarkfield, Minnesota. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Groehler, pioneers of the Village of Clarkfield. Harlan was graduated from Clarkfield High School with honors with the class of 1921. Since leaving Clarkfield, Harlan had been employed by the Great Northern Railway. Mr. Groehler passed away December...
Jennie Holum
Dec 29, 1950
Miss Jennie Holum was born December 31, 1872, in Minnesota, the daughter of Knute and Ella (Haugen) Holum. She passed away December 29, 1950, at her Hanley Falls, Minnesota, home, at the age of 77 years, two days before her 78th birthday. Survivors include three sisters: Gertrude Holum, Telda Cosens and Bessie Vagle. Funeral Services were conducted Tuesday, January...
Robert Lyle Mikelson
Dec 20, 1950
Robert Lyle Mikelson was born December 30, 1947, in Clarkfield, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Lyle C. Mikelson and Doris Hanson Mikelson. He died tragically in a truck-automobile accident December 20, 1950, in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, at the age of two years, eleven months and twenty days. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs....
Alvina (Sommer) Timm
Dec 19, 1950
Alvina Sommer Timm was born on December 24, 1880, at Green Lake, Wisconsin, the daughter of William Edward and Erstina Wilhelmina (Kuehn) Sommer. In infancy, she was baptized at Green Lake, Wisconsin. The family moved to Montevideo in 1886 where her father was killed in a threshing accident with a team of horses. In the late fall her mother...
Carl Fredrick Timm
Dec 19, 1950
Carl Fredrick Timm was born October 21, 1899, in Omro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Henry and Alvina (Sommer) Timm. Carl spent all of his life on his parents farm west of Clarkfield, Minnesota. He was a sociable, quiet- spoken man, well liked by all who knew him. He passed away December 19, 1950, at his...
Baby Girl Quam
Dec 1, 1950
Baby Girl Quam was born Friday, December 1, 1950, at the Clarkfield Memorial Hospital, the daughter of Ishmael and Erma (Svenungson) Quam. She died December 1, 1950, at the Clarkfield Memorial Hospital. Survivors include her parents. Graveside Service Friday, December 1, 1950 Spring Creek Lutheran Cemetery, Normania Township Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota Arrangements by Lynner Funeral Home Since 1891...
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Myrna Catherine (Beveridge) [Miottel] Berg
Nov 28, 1950
Myrna Catherine Beveridge was born April 13, 1919, at Appleton to William and Elizabeth (Morris) Beveridge. She attended country schools in the Appleton and Milan Minnesota area. She worked at the Olson Cafe of Appleton for a few years and then was employed at the Swift Corn Cannery in Montevideo and later at the Swift Creamery and Hatchery of...
Emil Friberg
Nov 24, 1950
Emil Friberg was born October 14th, 1879, in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of John and Saraline (Nelson) Friberg. He was baptized November 9th, 1879, by Rev. Almen and confirmed November 29th, 1896, by Rev. B.F. Bengtson. He resided on the home place in Tyro all his life until June of this year, when he retired...
Anton A. Rexstad
Nov 8, 1950
Anton A. Rexstad was born August 10, 1863, in Hadeland, Norway, the son of Anders and Ingeborg (Nilsdatter) Rexstad. There he was baptized in the Lutheran faith. He came to this country with his parents and two sisters when he was five years old. They came by sailboat on an eleven week voyage. Traveling by railroad, cattle train and...
Walter Ernest Harris
Nov 3, 1950
Walter E. Harris was born May 20, 1888, in Iowa, the son of Levi M. and Esther (Doolittle) Harris. He married Evelyn Brower. He died November 3, 1950, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, at the age of 62 years. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; sons: Myron and Levi; and daughters: Majorie Kreisel, Vivian and Marion Harris and...
Knut H. Glaim
Nov 3, 1950
Knute Glaim was born November 17, 1856, the son of Hellick and Gurina Glaim, in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Mr. Glaim settled on the Yellow Medicine River southwest of Hanley Falls, back with the very first wave of immigrants coming into the area in 1866. He marrried Bergot Norgaard January 27, 1877. They lived for a time on a claim...
Martin Nelson
Oct 24, 1950
Martin Nelson, son of Haakon and Bertha (Haakenson) Nelson, was born September 22, 1897, about three miles west and two miles north of Clarkfield, in Ten Mile Lake Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. He was baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church of Boyd by Rev. Farseth, December 5th, 1897, and confirmed by Rev. E.C. Eid in 1913. His boyhood...
