Theressa Alvilda (Vold) Dyrdahl
Feb 1, 2002
Theressa Alvilda (Vold) Dyrdahl was born October 11, 1903, at Hazel Run, Minnesota, to parents Peter and Hilda (Johnson) Vold. She was baptized in 1903 at Hazel Run and confirmed in 1918. Theressa was united in marriage to Albin Dyrdahl on April 3, 1932. They lived in the Hazel Run area their entire life. Theressa loved to cook and...
Helen Joann (Welu) Thompson
Jan 31, 2002
Helen JoAnn (Welu) Thompson was born at Milroy, Minnesota, to parents Nicholas and Ida (Hedge) Welu on March 2, 1926. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Michaels Church of Milroy, Minnesota. She graduated from Milroy High School and Nursing School. Following college, she worked in both the Tracy and Marshall, Minnesota Hospitals. Helen married Kenneth Thompson on December...
Olaf Gustav Larson
Jan 25, 2002
Olaf Gustav Larson was born May 14, 1918, in Tyro Township of Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to Carl Axel and Emma (Knutson) Larson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a longtime member of the Augustana Lutheran Church. Olaf was united in marriage to Grace Weeks on September 19, 1936. They celebrated their 65th wedding...
Boris Tkacenko
Jan 25, 2002
Boris Tkacenko was born in Prague (the Czech Republic) on March 11, 1927, to Fr. Dimitrij and Ladislava (Kubinova) Tkacenko. He was baptized and confirmed into the Eastern Orthodox religion. He spent his youth in different parishes where his father served as a priest. They moved to Brazil at the beginning of World War II. There he played violin...
Donna Mae (Beito) Bruflat
Jan 19, 2002
Donna Mae Bruflat, daughter of Lloyd and Alta (Halvorson) Beito, was born on November 26, 1932, at her Grandpa Ole Beito's farm in rural Granite Falls, Minnesota. She lived there for about eight years and then moved to the Volstead farm and then to Longview farm. Donna was the oldest child in her family, her siblings not starting to...
Marjorie Borghild (Hanson) Wilson
Jan 14, 2002
Marjorie Wilson, 87, died Monday, January 14, 2002, at Three Links Care Center in Northfield, Minnesota. Her funeral will be Saturday, January 19 , 2002, at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church in Northfield, with burial on Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 1:00 p.m. at the Hazel Run Lutheran Cemetery, Hazel Run, Minnesota. Friends and family are invited...
Edwin Burnett Jr Larson
Jan 5, 2002
Edwin Burnett Larson, Jr. was born March 6, 1927, on the family farm near Boyd, Minnesota, to parents Edwin and Elizabeth (Aakre) Larson. He was baptized April 10, 1927, and confirmed June 7, 1942, both at Trinity Lutheran of Boyd. He attended the Boyd Public School and graduated as Valedictorian of his class. Edwin and Clarice Virginia Bue were...
Margaret Elaine (Lynner) Gordon
Dec 30, 2001
Margaret Elaine (Lynner) Gordon was born September 19, 1922, at Clarkfield, Minnesota, to parents H. C. and Clara (Melbostad) Lynner. She was one of five siblings born to them. She was baptized and confirmed (in 1937) at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church. Margaret attended and graduated from Clarkfield High School in 1940 and from St. Olaf College, Magna Cum Laude,...
Clarence H. Haroldson
Dec 22, 2001
Clarence H. Haroldson was born February 2, 1914, in Swede Prairie Township of Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to Carl and Emma (Jacobson) Haroldson. He was baptized and confirmed at Swede Home Lutheran Church, in rural Clarkfield. He and Olivine Martinson were married November 2, 1940. They farmed near Boyd and later moved to Swede Prairie Township and farmed there...
Lionel G. "Stretch" Hartfiel
Dec 8, 2001
Lionel "Stretch" Hartfiel was born March 30, 1919, in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, to Theodore and Hulda (Galow) Hartfiel. He was confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church, Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. He graduated from Boyd High School. After high school Lionel attended Gustavus Adolphus College. On October 1941 he entered the Army and served his country in New Guinea....
William Don Jr. Bruflat
Dec 3, 2001
William Don Bruflat, Jr. was born on August 23, 1929 at Hastings, Minnesota, the son of William Don Bruflat, Sr. and Eleanor (Schneider) Bruflat. The family moved to Granite Falls, Minnesota when he was young. He attended school in Granite Falls, graduating in 1947. He was involved in football, hockey and Boy Scouts during that time. He was in...
Minnie Ida (Haaland) Christensen
Nov 28, 2001
Minnie Ida Haaland was born on September 23, 1912, in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to Gabriel O. and Barbara M. (Fenn) Haaland. She was the fifth of twelve children. Minnie was baptized at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Friendship Township and was confirmed in Norwegian at the Hazel Run Lutheran Church. She attended eight grades at District...
Alvin Hanson
Nov 18, 2001
Alvin Hanson was born on November 4, 1903, in Normania Township of Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to parents Ole and Emma (Brusven) Hanson. He was a member of St. Lucas Lutheran Church, being baptized and confirmed there and remaining a member his entire life. Alvin and Myrtle Stokke were married on September 30, 1934, at the Lutheran parsonage in...
Ernest Clayton Fjerkenstad
Oct 26, 2001
Ernest C. Fjerkenstad was born January 22, 1925, to parents John and Olga (Grefsrud) Fjerkenstad, of rural Boyd, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church of Boyd. He attended Boyd Country School. Ernest enlisted in the US Navy in 1944 and served in the South Pacific. Following an honorable discharge in 1946, he returned home and...
Larry Michael Jurgenson
Oct 15, 2001
Larry Michael Jurgenson was born on September 23, 1946, at Clarkfield, Minnesota, to parents Arden and Gladys (Westre) Jurgenson. He was baptized as an infant and confirmed at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church. Larry lived in Clarkfield until six years ago, when he moved to Montevideo, Minnesota. He was a lifelong member of the Clarkfield Lutheran ELCA Church and an...
Leo Albert Eckhardt
Oct 5, 2001
Leo Albert Eckhardt was born to parents Elmer and Ida (Berndt) Eckhardt at Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota. He was baptized as an infant at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Emerald Township of Faribault County, and was confirmed in 1954 at Immanuel Lutheran. He attended School District #97 of rural Blue Earth, Minnesota. Leo began farming at the young age...
Frances Bernice (Bakke) Bengtson
Aug 19, 2001
Frances Bernice Bengtson was born on February 23, 1921, in Milan, Minnesota, to parents Ingvar J. and Elizabeth (Bessie Joyce) Bakke. She was baptized on March 21, 1921, at the Kviteseid Lutheran Church in Milan, Minnesota. Frances was confirmed in the Lutheran faith on April 14, 1935, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Montevideo, Minnesota, by the Rev. John M....
Bernice H. (Dranttel) Crist
Aug 16, 2001
Bernice H. Dranttel Crist, a Clarkfield and St. Peter, Minnesota, resident for most of her life passed away on August 16, 2001, at the age of 84 in Dallas, Texas. She was an active member of Augustana Lutheran Church and a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Clarkfield, Minnesota. Bernice was a courageous woman who loved to try...
Edna Alfreda Schulz
Aug 8, 2001
Edna Alfreda Schulz, daughter of Fred W. and Emma (Abramowski) Schulz was born March 26, 1915, in Omro Township of Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She was baptized at St. John's Lutheran Church in Omro Township in April of 1915, by Pastor Pankow. At age 13, Edna moved to Boyd, Minnesota, and lived most of her life in and around...
Marvin Stensrud
Jul 8, 2001
Marvin Stensrud was born on November 14, 1909, at the home of his parents Oscar and Anna (Broughton) Stensrud, in Westerheim Township, Lyon County, Minnesota. He was baptized as an infant and renewed his baptismal vows through confirmation on May 23, 1923, at St. Lucas Lutheran Church. Marvin married Beatrice Orine Johnson in Valley City, North Dakota, on October...
