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Enock Sem Albeck

Enock Sem Albeck

Dec 2, 1980

Enock Sem Albeck was born May 29, 1912, at Hazel Run, Minnesota, to Nels M. and Martina (Tollefson) Albeck. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He was a member of the Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church. He was born and grew up in the Hanley Falls, Minnesota area. He did carpenter work and lived in the local...

Bruce William Weinhold

Bruce William Weinhold

Dec 1, 1980

Bruce William Weinhold was born on December 3, 1908, near Marshall, Minnesota, to Martin and Minnie (Brewster) Weinhold. His father died when he was 7 months old. His mother remarried. He was raised by his stepfather, Frank Hornberger. He was baptized at the Presbyterian Church in Cottonwood, Minnesota. He attended a rural Cottonwood School, later attending the Cottonwood Public...

August Holm

August Holm

Dec 1, 1980

August Holm was born April 7, 1901, at Clarkfield, Minnesota, to parents Anton and Anna (Cornelius) Holm. He was baptized and confirmed at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church. On July 24, 1925, he married Hilda Hognestad. They lived in Clarkfield for several years where he was engaged in carpentry work before moving to Boyd, Minnesota, where he was manager of...

Myron Vincent Friberg

Myron Vincent Friberg

Nov 22, 1980

Myron Vincent Friberg was born April 15, 1910, to Clarkfield settler, Sven A. Friberg and Amanda (Willander) Friberg. He was the fourth of their ten children. Myron was baptized and confirmed in the Augustana Lutheran Church of Clarkfield and attended the Clarkfield Schools. He married Muriel Mikelson July 14, 1940, and they made their home in Clarkfield. They had...

Darlene Lavonne (Lundy) [Rasmussen] Feist

Darlene Lavonne (Lundy) [Rasmussen] Feist

Nov 19, 1980

Darlene LaVonne (Lundy) [Rasmussen] Feist was born February 19, 1939 at Clarkfield, Minnesota to parents John and Edith (Davidson) Lundy. She was baptized and confirmed at Israel Lutheran Church of Swede Prairie Township. Darlene married Loyd R. Rasmussen on August 25, 1956 at Israel Lutheran Church. This marriage was blessed with four children: Cynthia, Diane, Douglas and Susan. Loyd...

Loyd Robert Rasmussen

Loyd Robert Rasmussen

Nov 19, 1980

Loyd Robert Rasmussen was born December 4, 1937, at Marshall, Minnesota to Hans and Iris (Scott) Rasmussen. He grew up and went to school in the Marshall area and then entered the U. S. Air Force where he served for four years. During this time he was united in marriage to Darlene Lundy of Clarkfield, Minnesota. Their first home...

Joel O. Aarrestad

Joel O. Aarrestad

Nov 16, 1980

Joel O. Aarrestad was born April 22, 1916, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to parents Nels and Marie (Kloster) Aarrestad. He grew up and spent most of his life on the farm in Yellow Medicine County. After the death of his father he moved to Granite Falls, Minnesota, where he made his home with his Aunt Edna Aarrestad. Joel...

Eugene Arnold Winkler

Eugene Arnold Winkler

Nov 14, 1980

Eugene Arnold Winkler was born June 16, 1903, at Brookings, South Dakota, to Carl and Agnes (Penney) Winkler. At the age of four, he moved with his parents to Watertown, South Dakota, where he grew to manhood. On April 23, 1930, he was united in marriage to Burma Meyer of Echo, Minnesota, and they lived in Watertown for 25...

Robert "Harold" Anderson

Robert "Harold" Anderson

Nov 3, 1980

Robert Harold Anderson was born in Minneapolis on June 13, 1916, to parents Andrew and Christine (Hanson) Anderson. He grew to manhood in the Maynard, Minnesota area, and was confirmed in the Maynard Church. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he worked in St. Paul, where he married Joan Stenson of Boyd, Minnesota, on November...

Carold Menford Soppeland

Carold Menford Soppeland

Nov 1, 1980

Carold Soppeland was born August 22, 1915, to Otto and Lena (Pederson) Soppeland in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at Clarkfield Lutheran Church, and married Gladys Larson on October 12, 1940, at Israel Lutheran Church. They lived at various places until 1958 when they moved to the present homeplace five miles south of...

Dr. Victor L. Silver

Dr. Victor L. Silver

Oct 27, 1980

Victor L. Silver was born July 24, 1896, at Clarkfield, Minnesota, to parents Peter N. and Elida (Erickson) Silver. Dr. Silver attended school at Clarkfield and graduated in 1915 after which he attended College of Dentistry at the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1918. He began his dentistry profession in Clarkfield in February of 1919 and served...

Ella F. Marquardt

Ella F. Marquardt

Oct 18, 1980

Ella F. Marquardt was born December 15, 1887, in Chippewa County, Minnesota, to William and Minnie Thiede. She was baptized by Rev. Heinrich Vetter and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church of Omro Township, by Pastor E.G. Fritz. On November 22, 1910, she married John Marquardt. She had lived at Omro Township since she was three years old and...

Mattie (Jacobson) Anderson

Mattie (Jacobson) Anderson

Oct 18, 1980

Mattie R. Anderson was born April 13, 1890, in Hazel Run Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to parents Magnus and Turina (Halvorson) Jacobson. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. On November 7, 1907, she was united in marriage to Theodore C. Anderson of Hazel Run in the Hazel Run Lutheran Church. They farmed in the Hazel...

Alma Luella Emblem

Alma Luella Emblem

Oct 16, 1980

Alma Luella Emblem was born May 19, 1901, in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to Sam and Ragnild (Mork) Emblem. She was baptized and confirmed at Israel Lutheran Church, Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She was an active member there until 1946 when she moved to Montevideo, Minnesota, residing at the home of her aunt and...

Agnes Lucretia (Hofteig) Hoff

Agnes Lucretia (Hofteig) Hoff

Oct 13, 1980

Agnes Lucretia Hofteig Hoff was born August 16, 1891, at Jasper, Minnesota, to David and Anna (Sigurdson) Ross. She was orphaned at an early age and was taken into the family of her uncle and aunt, the Sigbjorn Hofteigs. She was baptized at the Westerheim Islandic Church in September 1891, by the Rev. Thorkelsson and confirmed May 6, 1906,...

Ada L. (Olson) Wangsness

Ada L. (Olson) Wangsness

Oct 12, 1980

Ada L. Wangsness was born October 1, 1891, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to parents Ambrose and Bella (Olson) Olson. She was baptized in Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church of Hanley Falls, Minnesota, and confirmed at Silo Lutheran Church of Cottonwood, Minnesota. On November 2, 1912, she was united in marriage to Evan Wangsness. They lived in Underwood, Minnesota, until...

Ellen Johanna Lovsness

Ellen Johanna Lovsness

Sep 23, 1980

Ellen Johanna Lovsness was born March 22, 1900, at Stavanger, Norway, to John and Martha Marie (Ueland) Skarass. When she was three years old her parents moved to the United States. She has lived in the Cottonwood, Minnesota area all of her life. She was baptized in Stavanger and confirmed in the Silo Lutheran Church of Cottonwood. In 1924...

Harold John Benson

Harold John Benson

Aug 21, 1980

Harold J. Benson was born January 4, 1912, in Stony Run Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota to Thomas and Bertina (Eide) Benson, as the fourth of twelve children. He was baptized and confirmed in the Bergen Lutheran Church, of Stony Run Township, and was raised in an active agricultural environment. Harold entered the United States Army in March, 1942,...

Svea Ingeborg Nelson

Svea Ingeborg Nelson

Jul 29, 1980

Svea Ingeborg Nelson was born in Sweden on September 11, 1908, to Gustav and Brita (Sjoberg) Sjoblom. As an infant she moved with her family to Duluth, Minnesota, and later to International Falls, Minnesota. For a short time she worked in Chicago, Illinois, where she met and married Albin G. Nelson. They later moved to Clarkfield, Minnesota. Mrs. Nelson...

Rebecca (Kjelleberg) Bestland

Rebecca (Kjelleberg) Bestland

Jul 3, 1980

IN LOVING MEMORY OF Mrs. Rebecca Bestland Born January 1, 1901, in Minnesota to parents Kjittel and Bendina (Hognestad) Kjelleberg Passed Away July 3, 1980, at Granite Falls Manor, Granite Falls, Minnesota Preceded in death by husband, Gilbert Bestland in 1961 Survivors include son, Virgil, daughter, Beverly Wolfe, daughter, Phyllis Carlson, and son David Bestland. FUNERAL SERVICES Monday, July...

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