Ila L. Reierson

Ila L. Reierson, 88, of Moorhead, died Monday, March 22, 2005, in Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, MN. Ila Lokken Reierson was born July 27, 1916, to Iver and Verna Lokken at Newfolden, MN. Her father died when she was four years old and her brother Lynn, was two years old. They spent the next few years with relatives while their mother worked. Later Verna married Raymond Baker of Strandquist, MN. The family moved to a farm in Norman County and later to Sabin, MN. Ila attended elementary schools in Minnesota, graduating from high school at Halstad, and later from Moorhead State Teachers college. She began teaching in the rural schools of Hawley, Dent and Moorhead, then in Oregon for 3 years. On June 26, 1943 she married John Reierson, of Hawley, MN. He died in 1959, while they lived in Anoka, MN. Following his death, she accepted an overseas teaching position with the U.S. Army in Germany. Back in Moorhead, she continued teaching at Riverside and Probstfield elementary schools, and obtained a Master's Degree from Moorhead State University in 1968. She made her home with Betty DeKrey, retiring in 1978.She is survived by two brothers, Lynn Lois Lokken and Duane Beverly Baker, both of Sabin, MN and eight nieces and nephews; David Lokken, Palm Desert, CA, Gregory Lokken and Georgia Nauman, both of Minneapolis, MN, Sharon Holbrook, Fairbanks, AK, Laurie Sakkinen, North Pole, AK, Daniel Baker, Glyndon, MN, James Baker, Sabin, MN, and Kurtis Baker, Moorhead, MN. Also eleven great nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers memorials may be sent to Hospice of the Red River Valley, Elmwood Cemetery Association or Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead, MN.