Effie D. Aasen

Effie D. Aasen, age 84, of Moorhead, MN, died Saturday, October 4, 2008, in Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, MN.Effie was born on May 5, 1924 to Albert and Inga Bratten Thue in Walcott, ND. She grew up and attended school in Walcott, graduating from Walcott High School in 1942. Effie then moved to Fargo to work as a waitress at the Flamers and the Manchester Café. She later attended Interstate Business College. She then worked at DeLendrecies as a bookkeeper for many years. On July 30, 1949, she married Ernest Aasen in Fargo and later they moved to Moorhead. Ernest died May 3, 2008. Effie and her husband also had a lake cabin on Big Cormorant where she enjoyed many summers with family, friends and neighbors. Effie took pride in gardening and loved her fern leaf peonies, however, her main joy in life was caring and spending time with her two granddaughters, Abbie and Allie. When Abbie and Allie were younger, they spent their days shopping, going to the park and swimming with Effie until she became ill and entered Eventide Lutheran Home in Moorhead, where she has resided for the past 14 years.She is survived by one daughter, Sandra Kevin Lott of Moorhead, MN; two granddaughters, Abbie and Allie Lott, of Moorhead, MN; one brother, Duane Thue of Horace, ND; and four sisters, Gloria Kenneth Sveum of West Fargo, ND, Irene Herbert Dahlsad or Moorhead, MN, Adeline Loge of Fargo ND, and Helen Sauvageau of Moorhead, MN.She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one brother, Pete Thue; and three sisters, Ione Olson, Alida Arndt and Marion Anderson.You left us with so many memories. In life we loved you dearly and in death we will do the same.