March 7, 2001
Sean Smith
ROSEVILLE - Former New Ulm resident Sean Patrick Smith, 31, died Sunday. Services are 10 a.m. Friday at The Church of St. Rose in Roseville. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Mueller-Bies Funeral Home in Roseville and continues one hour before services Friday at the church.
Robert Gibbs
ST. PETER - Robert Gibbs, 69, died Tuesday. Memorial services are 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. Peter. There is no visitation. His family will be at the church after 9 a.m. Thursday.
Margaret Matson
FARIBAULT - New Richland native Margaret Minna Gertrude Matson, 95, died Monday. Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Parker Kohl Funeral Home in Faribault. Visitation is one hour before services Saturday at the funeral home.
Amanda Zupfer
NEW ULM - Amanda Zupfer, 99, died Tuesday. Arrangements are pending with Firle Funeral Home in New Ulm.
Geneva Bissell
MANKATO - Geneva May Bissell, 82, died Tuesday. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church. Visitation is 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Mankato Mortuary and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church.
Wayne Hoffman
MANKATO - Wayne L. Hoffman, 69, died Monday. Services are 2 p.m. Friday at First Congregational UCC. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Mankato Mortuary and continues one hour before services Friday at the church.
Herbert Krueger
SPRINGFIELD - Herbert W. Krueger, 78, died Monday. Services are 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Springfield. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Friday at Sturm Funeral Home, Springfield. Visitation continues one hour before services Friday at the church.
Dorothy Pippenger
WASECA - Dorothy C. Pippenger, 92, died Monday. Services are 1 p.m. Thursday at Mueller-Bies Funeral Home in Roseville. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today and noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
James Farrell
WASECA - James William Farrell, 76, died Monday. Memorial services are 10 a.m. Thursday at McRaith Funeral Home in Waseca. The family will be at the church one hour before services Thursday.
Alfred Gardner
FREEBORN - Alfred L. Gardner, 82, died Thursday. Services are 1 p.m. Friday at Freeborn United Church of Christ. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home, Wells, and continues one hour before services Friday at the church.
Elvera Hollister
NEW BRIGHTON - Elvera Hollister, 96, died Tuesday. Kinder-Dennis Home for Funerals in Waseca is handling arrangements.
Arthur Menk
NICOLLET - Arthur Menk, 93, died Tuesday. Arrangements are pending with Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in Nicollet.
Merle Venero
SLEEPY EYE - Merle "Butch" F. Venero, 80, died Monday. Services are 11 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sleepy Eye. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 to 9 a.m. Friday at Sturm Funeral Home, Sleepy Eye. Visitation continues one hour before services Friday at the church.
March 8, 2001
John Takle
SPRINGFIELD - John H. Takle, 86, died Wednesday. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at English Lutheran Church, Walnut Grove. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Jacobson Funeral Home, Walnut Grove, and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church.
Arthur Menk
ST. PETER - Arthur C. Menk, 93, died Tuesday. Services are 2 p.m. Friday at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nicollet. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today at Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in Nicollet and continues one hour before services Friday at the church.
Jeffrey Schultz
MANKATO - Jeffrey M. Schultz, 45, died Wednesday. Arrangements are pending with Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home, Wells.
Adelia Sievert
NEW ULM - Adelia Sievert, 87, died Wednesday. Services are 11 a.m. Monday at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Monday at Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm. Visitation continues one hour before services Monday at the church.
Jone Stelter
KASOTA - Jone C. Stelter, 46, died Wednesday. Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Mankato Mortuary and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church.
Elvera Hollister
NEW BRIGHTON - Elvera Hollister, 96, died Tuesday. Services are 11 a.m. Friday at Faith United Methodist Church in Waseca. Visitation is one hour before services Friday at the church.
Carolyn Johnston
MANKATO - Carolyn Ann Johnston, 34, died Monday. Services are 5:30 p.m. Friday at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Eagle Lake. Visitation follows services Friday at the church.
Ronald Mossengren
ORMSBY - Ronald Edward Mossengren, 68, died Tuesday. Arrangements are pending with Sturm Funeral Home in St. James.
Carol Manderfeld
MANKATO - Carol C. Manderfeld, 80, died Wednesday. Arrangements are pending with Mankato Mortuary.
Amanda Zupfer
NEW ULM - Amanda Amelia Zupfer, 99, died Tuesday. Services are 11 a.m. Friday at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm. Visitation is 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday at the church.
March 9, 2001
Sandra Cherland
AUSTIN, Texas - Sandra Cherland, 62, died Thursday. Arrangements are pending with Patton Funeral Home in Blue Earth.
Pauline Gray
WASECA - Pauline Yerhot Birsbane Gray, 72, died Thursday. Arrangements are pending with Kinder Dennis Home for Funerals in Waseca.
Tristan Sticha
LONSDALE - Tristan Micallen Sticha, infant son of Eric and Corey (Ingebriston) Sticha of Lonsdale, was stillborn Wednesday. Private services are planned.
Dorothy Phillips
MAPLETON - Dorothy Phillips, 77, died Thursday. Services are 11 a.m. Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church. Visitation is 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Olson-Tichenor Funeral Home in Mapleton.
Jone Stelter
KASOTA - Jone C. Stelter, 46, died Wednesday. Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today at Mankato Mortuary and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church.
Ronald Mossengren
ORMSBY - Ronald Edward Mossengren, 68, died Tuesday. Services are 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Odin. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Sturm Funeral Home in St. James and continues one hour before services at the church.
Carol Manderfeld
MANKATO - Carol Manderfeld, 80, died Wednesday. Memorial services are 3 p.m. Sunday at St. John's Episcopal Church in Mankato. Visitation is one hour before services Sunday at the church. Memorials are preferred to St. John's Episcopal Church on Mankato Lutheran Home.
Adelia Sievert
NEW ULM - Adelia Sievert, 87, died Wednesday. Services are 11 a.m. Monday at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Monday at Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm. Visitation continues one hour before services Monday at the church. Memorials are preferred to the Sievert Scholarship Fund at MLC.
Vivian Calcutt
FARIBAULT - Vivian Lucille Calcutt, 87, died Wednesday. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Fourth Avenue Methodist Church in Faribault. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today at Parker Kohl Funeral Home in Faribault and continues one hour before services Saturday.
Jeffrey Schultz
MANKATO - Jeffrey M. Schultz, 45, died Wednesday. Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Casimir Catholic Church in Wells. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home, Wells and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church.
March 10, 2001
Hazel Greenig Mans
OWATONNA - Former St. Peter resident Hazel Greenig Mans, 84, died Monday, March 5, 2001. Memorial services will be at a later date in Owatonna, with burial in Calvary Cemetery in St. Peter.
Lela Canon
WINNEBAGO - Lela E. Canon, 93, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church in Winnebago. Visitation is one hour before services today at the church.
Pauline Gray
WASECA - Pauline Yerhot Brisbane Gray, 72, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 1:30 p.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Waseca. Visitation is one hour before services at the church.
Alvin E. Hawker
MANKATO - Alvin E. Hawker, 90, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Arrangements are pending with Mankato Mortuary.
Alex J. Herlick
NEW ULM - Alex J. Herlick, 92, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Arrangements are pending with Minnesota Valley Funeral Home, New Ulm.
Vivian M. Lenertz
MANKATO - Vivian Marie Lenertz, 74, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 10:30 a.m. Monday at SS. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church in Mankato. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday with a 7 p.m. prayer service at Landkamer Johnson-Boman Funeral Home, Mankato, and continues one hour before services Monday at the church.
Dorothy 'Dottie' Phillips
MAPLETON - Dorothy "Dottie" Phillips, 77, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church. Visitation is 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Olson-Tichenor Funeral Home, Mapleton, and continues one hour before services Monday at the church.
Lorraine E. Engelkens
COMFREY - Lorraine Eldoris Engelkens, 80, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Services are 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at New Hope Lutheran Church in Comfrey. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Sturm Funeral Home Chapel, Comfrey, and continues one hour before services Tuesday at the church.
Sandra Cherland
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Blue Earth native Sandra Cherland, 62, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blue Earth. Visitation is one hour before services Monday at the church.
March 12, 2001
Lunita Borth
FAIRFAX - Lunita M. Borth, 94, died Sunday, March 11, 2001. Arrangements are pending with Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm.
Herbert Drews
GAYLORD - Former Gibbon resident Herbert H. Drews, 96, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Moltke Township. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in Gibbon and continues one hour before services Thursday at the church.
Richard Sabin
BLUE EARTH - Richard J. "Dick" Sabin, 69, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Blue Earth. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at Patton Funeral Home in Blue Earth.
Viola Schug
LAKE CITY, Iowa - Viola Schug, 94, died Saturday, March 10, 2001. Services are 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Lake City, Iowa. Visitation is 3 p.m. Tuesday with a 7 p.m. prayer service at Lampe Funeral Home, Lake City, Iowa.
Roy Feeken
WAKARUSA, Kan. - Former Comfrey resident Roy Gene Feeken, 52, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 10 a.m. today at the Town and Country Christian Church in Topeka, Kan.
Alvin Hawker
ST. CLAIR - Alvin E. Hawker, 90, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. Clair. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Mankato Mortuary and continues one hour before services Wednesday at the church.
Florabel Higlee
DULUTH - Former North Mankato resident Florabel H. Higlee, 94, died Thursday, March 8, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bell Brothers Chapel in Duluth. Visitation is 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday with a 6:30 p.m. prayer service and continues one hour before services Wednesday at the chapel.
Pearl Pirsig
BLUE EARTH - Pearl M. Pirsig, 100, of Blue Earth, died Saturday, March 10, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Lukes Lutheran Care Center. Visitation is one hour before services Wednesday at St. Lukes.
Mary Schaffran
MANKATO - Mary Schaffran, 93, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Johnsonville Township, Redwood County. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Sunset Funeral Home in Wabasso and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church.
Gertrude VanRossum
WELLS - Gertrude H. VanRossum, 83, of Wells, died Saturday, March 10, 2001. Services are 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Casimir Catholic Church in Wells. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. today with a 5 p.m. VFW Auxiliary service and 7 p.m. prayer service at Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home in Wells and continues one hour before services with a 9:30 a.m. rosary Tuesday at the church.
Alex Herlick
NEW ULM - Alex J. Herlick, 92, died Friday, March 9, 2001. Services are 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. with a 6:30 p.m. rosary and 7:30 p.m. parish prayer service today and 7:30 to 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm.
Helen Foster
SPRING PARK - Helen I. Foster, 88, died Saturday, March 10, 2001. Services are 4 p.m. today at Wayzata Community Church in Wayzata. Burial is in Woodlawn Cemetery in Oelwein, Iowa. Visitation will not take place.
