obituaries

Knute T. Reishus was born July 24, 1869, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Tobias and Anna (Kolhei) Reishus. Knute and Annetta Miller were married November 3, 1894, in Cottonwood, Lyon County, Minnesota. They were the parents of eleven children. Mr. Reishus passed away at his Cottonwood, Minnesota home at the age of 81 years. He is...

Alma Severson was born April 30, 1893, on a farm in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Hans and Eline (Hollo) Hanson. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith. On September 7, 1914, she was married to Elmer A. Severson. To this union were born five children, one of whom died in infancy. They...

Hannah Serene Nodshilder was born November 6, 1896, to Hans and Herborg (Swenson) Nodshilder, in Lisbon Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She was one of a family of eleven. She received her education at the Lisbon Township School and the Red Wing Seminary. She worked two years at Denver, Colorado, and five years at Montevideo, Minnesota, before going to...

Berenice I. Orres was born November 18, 1909 in rural Clarkfield to Oliver and Mary Orres. She was baptized at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church. At an early age she moved with her family to Gardner, ND where she attended school and graduated from High School. She was confirmed at the Nora Lutheran Church in Gardner, ND. In 1942 she...

In Memory Of Beryl Babb Date of Birth May 23, 1924, Clarkfield, Minnesota to parents Elias and Hannah Quale Entered Eternal Life September 17, 2001, Michigan City, Indiana Funeral Services Root Funeral Home, Michigan City, Indiana Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. Final Resting Place Clarkfield Lutheran Cemetery, Clarkfield, Minnesota Arrangements by Lynner Funeral Home Since 1891 Clarkfield...

Ardine Melvin Ness was born June 6, 1929, in Minnesota, to parents Ralph and Emma (Iverson) Ness. He passed away in his sleep at the farm home of his mother, Mrs. Stuart Johnson, Sunday, March 19, 1972, at the age of 42 years. Survivors include his mother, Emma Johnson, and his brother Kermit Ness. In Memory of ARDINE M....

Marjorie Joan Drange was born March 15, 1933, in Hazel Run, Minnesota, the daughter of John and Marit (Johnson) Drange. She was baptized by Rev. A. Haugland. She attended the public school in Hazel Run and Clarkfield High School from which she graduated in 1951. She was confirmed by Rev. J.E.H. Akre in Hazel Run Lutheran Church. She was...

Inga Caroline Johnson was born January 18, 1902, to parents John and Johanna (Skarskein) Appelseth on the family farm near Clarkfield, Minnesota. She attended rural school, later graduating in 1924. She took up nursing at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Inga had to leave the college to help her father with his brother, who was ill. Inga married...

Death came to Mr. Ole Valen, 85-year-old Clarkfield resident, on Friday afternoon, after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held at the local Norwegian Lutheran Church, Rev. P.L. Mork preaching the funeral sermon, and assisted by Rev. P.O. Wee, who had been the deceased's pastor for 23 years. Special songs were sung by Mrs. Esther Lynne, "Under His Wings",...

The following is the obituary supplied by the Lund family: The death of Mrs. Samson J. Lund occurred at the Oscar Miller home in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, Saturday morning, February 1, 1958. She had been slowly declining in health the last weeks, so it was with mingled feeling of sorrow and joy that her many relatives...

Lars G. Olson, son of Gaute and Enger Olson, was born June 3, 1877, in Norway. At the age of four years he came with his parents to Winnebago County, Iowa, where he was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. In 1911 he married Serine Louise Martinson. To this union ten children were born, all of whom survive:...

Theodore Hegna was born March 11, 1897, three miles south of Clarkfield, Minnesota, in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, the son of Halvor T. Hegna and Marie (Eikeness) Hegna. He was baptized by Rev. O.C. Farseth in Clarkfield Lutheran Church, and confirmed by Rev. O.T. Storaasli in the same church. Ted, as he was familiarly called, grew to manhood...

Robert Vance Elkjer was born July 19, 1916, in Swift County, Minnesota, the son of Chris and Mabel (Dahl) Elkjer. He attended John Brown Academy in Arkansas, graduated from high school in Montevideo with the class of 1936, and studied aeronautics at California Flyers School of Aviation in Los Angeles, California. During World War II he served his country...

Mrs. Christina Swanson was born in Sweden, March 29, 1875, the daughter of John and Gertrude Lundstrom. When Christina was six years old she came to America with her parents and settled in Joliet, Illinois, where they lived for two years and then moved to Swede Prairie Township in 1883. She was married to Robert Swanson June 10, 1905,...

Gladys Cecelia Vick Anderson was born September 2, 1907, in Canby, Minnesota, to Alfred J. and Helen (Gilbertson) Vick. Following the deaths of her infant brother and parents, at age seven Gladys was then raised in the home of Lena Bjornstad, Canby, Minnesota. Upon graduation at the age of 16, Gladys completed the required two years of Normal Training...

Lisl Marie Loesch, daughter of Michael and Lorraine (Stueland) Loesch and granddaughter of Mrs. Helen Stueland, was born June 27, 1979, in Rome, Georgia. She was baptized, received her First Communion, and was confirmed in the Roman Catholic faith. She attended school in Theodore, Alabama and Park Forest, Illinois and graduated from Rich South High School in Richton Park,...

John Hanserud was born March 21, 1879, in Lisbon Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Ingebret and Marie (Johnson) Hanserud. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church. John lived with his brother, Edward, on their farm, the same place he was born in Lisbon Township, until...

John G. Trovatten was born January 25, 1885, in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Halvor Trovatten and Kari (Holte) Trovatten. He was baptized and confirmed by Rev. Romstad at St. Lucas Church. He attended grade school in District 45; high school in Clarkfield; Madison Normal at Madison, Minnesota; University of Minnesota School of Agriculture; and...

Hilda Josephine Dotseth Johnson was born in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, June 15, 1888, the daughter of Andrew Dotseth and Lizzie (Fredrickson) Dotseth. In infancy she was baptized in the Lutheran faith. She spent the early years of her life on her parents' farm south of Clarkfield. On August 9, 1903, she was confirmed in Spring Creek...

Born March 5, 1961, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota Infant son of George Wilson Seitz and Marjorie (Kraft) Sietz Arrangements by Lynner Funeral Home Since 1891 Clarkfield Minnesota

March 6, 1961 Clarkfield City Cemetery Clarkfield, Minnesota