obituaries

Gordon Alfred Johnson was born August 14, 1919, to Carl and Annie (Dahl) Johnson, rural Stony Run Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. Following school, Gordy had many jobs. He helped on the farm, worked at a gas station and went to North Dakota to help on a Threshing Team. Gordy entered the United States Army and served in WWII...

Emily Margrit Zeuthen Hollenbeck was born April 30, 1898, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, daughter of Fritz and Margrit Zeuthen. She was baptized by Pastor B.B. Jonsson. When she was two years old, her family moved to Minneota. She was confirmed in St. Paul's Lutheran Church. She attended school in Minneota and after receiving her teaching certificate, taught several years in...

Arthur Harland Johnson was born August 25, 1904, in Friendship Township of Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. His parents were John and Emma (Satre) Johnson. Most of his life was spent on the farm where he lived at the time of his death. He was baptized and confirmed in the Clarkfield Lutheran Church of which he was a lifetime member...

Vernon Englebert Rupp was born July 21, 1915, to Herman and Maggie (Thiel) Rupp, on a farmstead west of Hazel Run, Minnesota. He was baptized into the Catholic Faith at Montevideo, Minnesota, on July 31, 1918. He attended school in Hazel Run until the third grade. The family then moved to Mannorville, Minnesota, where they lived for two years....

REV. E. T. FYRAND Edmore Tillman Fyrand was born October 12, 1905, to Truls Fyrand and Caroline (Haugstad) Fyrand near Kenyon, Minnesota, on a farm that was homesteaded by his grandparents in 1854. The youngest of ten children, he attended grammar school in a country schoolhouse on his family farm. He was baptized and confirmed in Gol Lutheran Church...

Bertha Severina (Hanson) Olson was born March 18, 1889, near Paxton, Illinois, the daughter of Mads and Helen Hanson. When a few months old she moved with her parents to the community of Britt, Iowa, residing there for twelve years, when upon the death of her mother, her father brought his little family to Minnesota to be with relatives....

Inga Julia Gautefall, daughter of Lars and Sophia (Haugen) Gautefall, was born on Novemver 17, 1896, in Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She was baptized December 25, 1968, and confirmed in 1911, in the Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church of Hanley Falls, Minnesota, by Rev. Ole Lokensgaard. Inga was born and raised on the family homestead west of Hanley...

Ida Marie Brown was born July 29, 1880, one of the thirteen children of Jens and Anna (Barnes) Stevens, on a farm in Yellow Medicine County located west of Hanley Falls, Minnesota. She clerked in the store in Hanley Falls, owned by her sister and husband. On January 18, 1911, she was united in marriage to Dan Brown. For...

Theodore Foss was born December 18, 1890, in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the oldest son of Hans Foss and Gunhild Hegna Foss. He was baptized and confirmed at Spring Creek Lutheran Church where he was a member all of his life. He spent his life on the farm where he was born except for the past six...

Mons Olai Vik was born October 15, 1872, near Ridgeway, in Winneshiek County, Iowa, the son of Mons and Oline (Stangeland) Vik. He was baptized in the Lutheran faith November 10, 1872, by Rev. D. Lysness of Winneshiek County. At the age of seven years, he together with his parents, brothers and sister immigrated to Minnesota, coming directly to...

Arthur N. Hermanson Arthur Norman Hermanson was born October 29, 1915, on the family farm south of Boyd to parents Henry and Dorothea Hermanson. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Boyd. He attended and graduated from Boyd High School. Art was the youngest of six children, so he stayed home and "farmed with Dad." During...

Elmer Lien was born in Burton Township of Yellow Medicine County, to parents Martin and Mary (Olson) Lien. He passed away at the Community Memorial Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota. Survivors include brothers: Oluf, John of Clarkfield, Melvin of Tyler, and Carl of St. Paul; sister Olga Lien of Canby. IN MEMORY OF ELMER LIEN Born August 4, 1898 ~ Passed...

Martina Albeck was born August 3, 1872, on a farm in Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Tollef and Anna Sophia (Dalve) Tollefson. She was brought up in the Lutheran faith, was baptized and in 1887 confirmed by Rev. Knute Thorstenson in Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church. She grew to womanhood in this community. In 1898 she...

Karl J. Heimark, oldest of twelve children, was born October 20, 1878, on the homestead of Jacob and Christine (Storebo) Heimark in Lisbon Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a lifelong member of the Bergen congregation. In his early twenties, Karl left home in the traditional pioneering manner to...

Norma Elizabeth Blake was born September 27, 1941, the third child of James and Dorothy (Windsor) Blake in Shropshire, England. She was raised on Creamore Farm, Wem, England, which had a proud history in dairy production. Cheese was an important aspect of the Blake farm. Her grandmother was the first in selling Cheshire cheese at the local Chester market....

Roy Frederick Schulz was born Wednesday, September 28, 1921, at 3:55 A.M. on a farm near Clarkfield, Minnesota to Fred and Emma Schulz. Roy was baptized October 16, 1921 in the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church by Pastor Roy H. Vollmars of Omro. His Godparents were Walter Footh and Selma Abramowski. Roy was confirmed in the Redeemer Lutheran Church...

John Peder Stenson was born January 16, 1886, in Lisbon Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Steen and Nellie (Johnson) Stenson. He was baptized and confirmed in Bergen Lutheran Church and attended grade school in Lisbon Township and then Lutheran Normal School at Madison. In 1910, he married Mabel Ness who passed away in 1918 during the...

Raymond William Lachelt was born July 21, 1933, to parents Otto and Minerva (Biel) Lachelt at their farm home in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. Pastor Louis Rosin baptized Raymond as an infant and later confirmed him. He was a lifelong member of Zion Lutheran Church. Raymond attended rural school and St. John's Lutheran School. He received his...

Herman Henry Gebers was born December 2, 1879, in Audubon County, Iowa, the son of Henry Gebers and Trina Wedemeyer Gebers. In his infancy he was brought into the Christian church through baptism, having been baptized in St. John's Lutheran Church, Adair, Iowa, by Rev. Horn. He was confirmed in the same church by Rev. Cloeter. In 1912 he...

Arthur S. Forbord, Sr., was born August 15, 1890, on the Forbord farm south of Clarkfield, Minnesota, to Ole and Ida (Isaacs) Forbord. He served in World War I, after which he was united in marriage ot Helen Weatheral of Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1919. To this union eight children were born of whom five survive their father, namely:...