Obituaries
Elois Isaacson
Dec 2, 2013
Elois Evelyn Herzog was born on January 6, 1919 in Fort Yates, North Dakota, the daughter of Omar and Grace (Keogh) Herzog. Elois grew up in North Dakota then as a little girl moved to Pelican Rapids and attended county school. She stayed at home to help raise her siblings after her mother's death. On April 25, 1938 Elois was...
Jean Clauson
Nov 26, 2013
Jean Kathryn Erickson was born on January 13, 1925 at home near Pelican Rapids, the daughter of Carl and Olivia (Siggerud) Erickson. She graduated from Pelican Rapids High School in 1942. On October 27, 1946 Jean was united in marriage to Raymond Clauson on the Siggerud farm in rural Pelican Rapids. Jean and Ray farmed their entire life near Pelican...
Hazel Frances Herk
Nov 17, 2013
Hazel Frances Herk, age 86, a rural Vergas, Minnesota, died November 17, 2013, at Essentia Health in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Hazel Herk, age 86, of rural Vergas, Minnesota, passed away November 17, 2013, at Essentia Health in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Hazel Frances (Peterson) Herk was born January 2, 1927 in Marshall County near Middle River, Minnesota to Elmer and Florence...
Shirley Nettestad
Nov 6, 2013
Shirley Nettestad, age 84, a resident of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, died on November 6, 2013 at Pelican Valley Nursing Home in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. Shirley Beckman was born February 22, 1929, in Underwood, Minnesota the daughter of Selvin and Caroline (Moen) Beckman. She was baptized and confirmed at Sverdrup Lutheran Church in Underwood. Shirley graduated from Underwood High School and...
Lawrence "Larry" Olson Sr
Nov 1, 2013
Lawrence Olson Sr., age 86, a resident of Pelican Rapids died November 1, 2013 at the Fargo VA hospital.Lawrence M. Olson Sr. was born December 14, 1926 in McLeod, North Dakota, the son of Knute and Lydia Olson. Larry grew up on a farm near McLeod, North Dakota. Lawrence served in the United States Army in 1945 where he lost...
Robert "Bob" Nessa
Oct 28, 2013
Robert "Bob" Wayne Nessa, 68, of Pelican Rapids, MN passed away Monday, October 28, 2013 in Chicago while en route to visit his brother, Jim, in Ohio.Robert Wayne Nessa was born June 2, 1945 to William and Marie (Paulson) Nessa in Pelican Rapids. After Robert graduated from Pelican Rapids High School in 1963, he served in the U.S. Army during...
Barbara Virginia Quinn
Oct 23, 2013
Barbara V. Quinn, (Barbara "Bobby" Levorsen), 88, of Radcliff, KY, died Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at Norton Health Care Center, Louisville, KY.Barbara Virginia Quinn, also known as Bobby to her childhood and young friends, was born February 15, 1925 and grew up in Pelican Rapids, MN. She was the oldest of two children of Albert John (or AJ) and Barbro...
Truman Edward Strand
Oct 22, 2013
Truman Edward Strand was born November 22, 1920 in Glenwood, MN to Thosten and Blanche (Barsness) Strand. He grew up on Lake Minnewaska and attended country school near Glenwood. Truman graduated from Glenwood High school in 1938. In September 1942 he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps during World War II and was stationed in New Jersey with the...
Darcy Barnes
Oct 11, 2013
Darcy Lea Barnes was born July 9, 1959 the daughter of David and Marylynn (Pierce) Hudson in Moorhead, Minnesota. She graduated from Fargo South High School. On December 1, 1980 Darcy was united in marriage with Duane Barnes at the Assembly of God Church in Fargo. Darcy worked as a homemaker raising her four children. In 1993 Darcy and Duane...
Kenneth Backstrom
Oct 7, 2013
Kenneth Werner Backstrom, age 90, a resident of Pelican Rapids, formerly of Minneapolis, MN, died on Monday, October 7, 2013, at Lake Region Healthcare in Fergus Falls.Kenneth Backstrom was born on July 17, 1923 in his home in Erhards Grove Township, son of Walter and Ruth (Johnson) Backstrom. Kenneth attended county school district #288 near Erhard, Minnesota. Kenneth worked at...
Shirley Aaser
Oct 4, 2013
Shirley Aaser, age 82, a resident of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, passed away Friday, October 4, 2013 under the care of Red River Valley Hospice at Bethany on University in Fargo, ND Shirley D. (Bakke) Aaser, daughter of Samuel and Denella (Urvand) Bakke, was born at home in Nelson County, North Dakota, on August 18, 1931. She grew up near McVille...
Mary Bayne
Sep 22, 2013
Mary Bayne, age 64, a resident Minneapolis, formerly of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, passed away Sunday, September 22, 2013 at Essentia Health, Fargo, ND. Mary Louise Bayne was born July 3, 1949 in Pelican Rapids, daughter of Earl Gobel and Jeanette (Nettestad) Gobel. In May of 1967 Mary graduated from Pelican Rapids High School. In June of 1967 Mary was united...
Curtis LeRoy Lahlum
Sep 7, 2013
Curtis Lahlum, age 74, a resident of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, died on Saturday, September 7, 2013 at his residence. Curtis LeRoy Lahlum was born on January 7, 1939 in Rothsay, MN, to Peder and Miranda (Evenson) Lahlum. He graduated from Pelican Rapids High School in 1958. For a few years Curtis was employed with A-1 Olson Typewriter in Fargo, ND....
Shirley Fay Maahs
Sep 7, 2013
Shirley Fay (Baker) Maahs, age 77, of Detroit Lakes, MN, passed away Saturday, September 7, 2013 at Pelican Valley Nursing Home in Pelican Rapids with her husband by her side. Shirley was the daughter of Wyeth "Bud" and Fay (Robinson) Baker. She was born January 9, 1936 in Sisseton, SD, and on Saturday, September 7, she left this world to...
Margaret Dorothy Engebretson
Aug 25, 2013
FUNERAL HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 11:00 a.m.Margaret Engebretson, age 96, a resident of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, died on August 25, 2013 at Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls.Margaret Dorothy Gilberts was born on December 9, 1916 near Lily, South Dakota, the daughter of Olaf and Carrie (Siggerud) Gilberts. She was baptized and attended country school near Lily, South Dakota until...
Bess Marie Hagen
Aug 22, 2013
Bess Marie Hagen, age 91, a resident of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, died on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at the Pelican Valley Nursing Home in Pelican Rapids.Bess Marie was born December 29, 1921 in the Pelican Rapids Hospital, the daughter of Martin and Tessie (Nettestad) Skow. She attended country school #57 through the 8th grade and graduated from Pelican Rapids High...
Louise Rostad
Aug 19, 2013
Louise Rostad, age 85, peacefully passed away August 19 at Augustana Care in Minneapolis, a Lutheran nursing home near the Metrodome where she had been an Alzheimer's patient for a number of years. She initially lived in Augustana's assisted living apartments after her move to Minneapolis in 1999. Louise Jeanette Hanson was born November 24th, 1927, the daughter of Roy...
Linda Haugen
Aug 1, 2013
Linda Haugen, age 74 a resident of Moorhead, MN, formerly of Pelican Rapids, MN, died on Thursday, August 1, 2013, at Sanford Hospital, Fargo, ND after a courageous battle with cancer. Linda Ann Guntzburger was born on November 13, 1938 in Larimore, North Dakota, the daughter of Howard and Elsie (Carlson) Guntzburger. She was baptized and confirmed at the St....
Jayme Rion Honrud
Jul 31, 2013
Jayme Honrud, age 15, died on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in an automobile accident near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Jayme Rion Honrud was born May 19, 1998, in Fergus Falls, MN, the son of Steve Michael Honrud and Amy Mae Shultz. He has lived all of these years in Erhard. He was baptized at Grace Lutheran Church in Erhard, MN. Jayme...
Hilda S Peterson
Jul 19, 2013
Hilda Peterson, age 98, died on Friday, July 19, 2013, at Pelican Valley Nursing Home, Pelican Rapids, MN. Hilda Huseby was born February 10, 1915 near Pelican Rapids, the daughter of Ole Bernard Huseby and Amine (Pederson) Huseby. She was baptized and confirmed in Pelican Valley Church and attended school near Pelican Rapids. In 1938 she married Stanley Peterson in...
