Obituaries
Donna Olson
Oct 26, 2016
Donna (Toddie) Olson, age 87, of Elbow Lake, passed away, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at the Barrett Care Center, Barrett, MN. Donna Mae Ketter was born June 13, 1929 to Frank and Maylinda (Karger) Ketter in Frazee, MN. She was baptized and confirmed at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, and graduated from Frazee High School. On September 2, 1950, Toddie was...
Almyra Kapphahn
Oct 9, 2016
Almyra Kapphahn, age 88 of Elbow Lake, passed away Sunday, October 9, 2016 at the Broen Home in Fergus Falls. Almyra Joanna Jorgens Kapphahn was born on Nov. 22, 1927 in rural Elbow Lake to Joseph and Anna Jorgens. She attended country school and Elbow Lake High School and graduated in 1945. After graduating she worked in Minneapolis. Her future...
Eljene Amundson
Oct 7, 2016
Eljene Amundson, 91, of Elbow Lake, died Friday, October 7, 2016, at Prairie Ridge Hospital in Elbow Lake, MN. Eljene Harriet Nelson was born August 16, 1925 near Wendell, MN, the daughter of Swante and Gurine (Lien) Nelson. She attended school in Wendell, and graduated from Elbow Lake High School in 1943. Eljene attended Concordia College in Moorhead for a...
LeVonne Swanson
Oct 6, 2016
LeVonne Swanson, a woman of many names, many talents, and many friends, passed away surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, October 6, 2016, in Edina at age 97. She was born in Elbow Lake on May 3, 1919, to parents Ole and Anna (Dahler) Halvorson, and lived most of her life there. LeVonne was an energetic girl who...
Wallace Bullis
Sep 26, 2016
Wally Bullis, age 87 passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016 at Prairie Ridge Hospital in Elbow Lake. Wallace James Bullis was born on July 16, 1929 in North Ottawa Township to James and Pearle (Cowell) Bullis. He attended District 61 School up until they moved to Wendell, attending there through the eighth grade. At that time he went on to...
Beverly Hubbard
Sep 21, 2016
Beverly Hubbard, 90 of Barrett died Wednesday, September 21, 2016, at the Central Todd County Care Center in Clarissa. Beverly Mae Hubbard was born on May 5, 1926, in Laurens, Iowa the daughter of Morris and Grace (Davis) Wiley. She was baptized and raised in the First Christian Church in Laurens and graduated from the Laurens High School in 1944....
Joanne Langmaack
Sep 20, 2016
Joanne N. Langmaack, age 74, of Moorhead, MN, formerly of Elbow Lake, passed away Tuesday, September 20, 2016, at the Barrett Care Center. Joanne Noreen was born September 23, 1941 to Rudolph and Johanna (Frikken) Langmaack in Fergus Falls, MN. She was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran faith. She attended Elbow Lake School, graduating in 1960. Following graduating she...
Janice Kroc
Sep 15, 2016
Janice B. Kroc of Barrett, passed away Thursday, September 15, 2016 at the Barrett Care Center at the age of 74 years. Janice Bernice was born to Ruth Heidman in Duluth, Minnesota on August 6, 1942. She was raised in the Catholic Faith and attended school in Duluth. Janice married young and began raising their four children, Teresa, Angie, Tony...
Lois Persons
Aug 29, 2016
Lois D. Persons, 87, of Hoffman, MN, died on Monday, August 29, 2016, at the Barrett Care Center. Lois Darlene Schluns blessed the family of Harriet and Fred Schluns when she was born May 4, 1929 on a farm site near Fulton, Illinois. She joined the family of Earl, Walter, and Velma, (now all deceased). Later another girl, Lavonne, was...
Marcus Alvstad
Aug 13, 2016
Marcus Alvstad, 92 of Elbow Lake, Minnesota died Saturday, August 13, 2016, at the Evansville Care Center, with Ardis his loving wife of fifty-two years at his side. Marcus Donald Alvstad was born on May 12, 1924, at home in Pelican Lake Township, Grant County, Minnesota the son of Erick and Mina (Rustad) Alvstad. He was baptized and confirmed in...
Willys Larson
Aug 11, 2016
Willys Grant Larson, 67, of Brandon, MN, died Thursday, August 11, 2016, at St. William's Living Center in Parkers Prairie. Willys was born on October 11, 1948 in Alexandria, MN, the son of Orrin and Harriet (Burkey) Larson. He was baptized at First Lutheran Church in Miltona and later confirmed at Solem Lutheran Church near Kensington. Willys graduated from Kensington...
Irene Hansen
Aug 8, 2016
Irene J. Hansen, age 92, of Elbow Lake, passed away Monday, August 8, 2016 at the Barrett Care Center. Irene Josephine was born on June 10, 1924, at the Hansen farm in Elbow Lake Township of Grant County, MN, the sixth and last child of Henrik "Henry" Thorwald and Tillie (Burtness) Hansen of Norwegian heritage. She attended Pleasant Hill School...
Dwaine Westrom
Aug 1, 2016
Dwaine Leonard Westrom, 61 of rural Elbow Lake died on Monday August 1st, 2016 surrounded by a loving family at his farm in Delaware Township after a courageous fight with ALS. Dwaine was born on February 28, 1955, in Fergus Falls, MN, the son of Leonard and Shirley (Erfert) Westrom. He was baptized and confirmed in Elbow Lake. Dwaine attended...
Patrick Anderson
Jul 30, 2016
Patrick D. Anderson, 45, of Hoffman, died Saturday, July 30, 2016, as the result of an ATV accident. Patrick Dell Anderson was born on September 24, 1970, in Morris, MN, the son of Dale and Betty (Norman) Anderson. He was baptized and confirmed at Bethel Lutheran Church in Hoffman. In 1981, at the age of 10, Pat lost his...
David Wikholm
Jul 13, 2016
David Wikholm, 67 of Elbow Lake died Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at his home. David Walter Wikholm was born on November 26, 1948, in Lake Hurst, New Jersey the son of Walter and Lorraine (Rustand) Wikholm. He was baptized in the Trinity Lutheran Church and confirmed on June 2, 1963, also in Trinity Lutheran Church in Wendell. He attended the...
Leone Sellner
Jun 30, 2016
Leone Isabelle (Issie) was born on May 21, 1931 to Leonard and Lillian Gunderson in St. Peter, MN. At age thirteen, Isabelle met the love of her life, Eugene "Jeep" Sellner; they were married September 16, 1950 and enjoyed 52 years of marriage. Issie spent her lifetime taking care of her family. She and Jeep lived in Bloomington and Duluth,...
Orville Lien
Jun 29, 2016
Orville Malen Lien of Elbow Lake, passed away Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at the Evansville Care Campus at the age of 88 years. Orville was born in Lincoln Park, Michigan, on February 23, 1928, to Sigvart and Clara (Malen) Lien. He was baptized at Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in Lincoln Park by the Reverend Keintmatz and confirmed in 1942 at...
Gary Fritz
Jun 8, 2016
Gary "Rob" Fritz, 51, Lowry, died peacefully Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 at his home. Gary Robin Fritz was born on February 5, 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Gary Raymond and LouAnn (Quernemoen) Fritz. He loved to ride his bike, spend time at the lake, talk to his son, and treasured the time he got to spend with his...
Sharolyn Johnson
May 17, 2016
Sharolyn Johnson, 74, of Barrett, MN, died Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at her home, under the care of her family and Lakeland Hospice. Sharolyn Jean Erickson was born on September 20, 1941 in Fergus Falls, MN, the daughter of Eugene and Evelyn (Hansen) Erickson. She was baptized in her mother's Missouri Synod home church in Jasper, MN, and confirmed at...
Joan Larson
May 10, 2016
Joan Larson, 85 of Barrett, MN, died on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at the Evansville Care Campus in Evansville. Joan (Carlson) Larson, daughter of C. Oscar and Anna (Beckman) Carlson, was born on Jan. 29, 1931. She attended school in Evansville, graduated in 1949 and then attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. On Sept. 2, 1950, she married Ellard Larson...
