Louise Mary Metcalf

Louise Metcalf, 94, Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, MN, died on Wednesday, December 01, 2004, in the nursing home.Mary Louise Metcalf was born on June 1, 1910, near Kragnes, MN, to Charles and Edith "Annie" Boulton Gilbery. She grew up and attended Oak Mound school near Kragnes. Louise married Banker Metcalf on October 23, 1929, in Moorhead, MN, and they made their home in Glyndon where they farmed and operated school buses. Louise was active in her church, Glyndon Congregational Church, Glyndon Lionesses, and was an avid gardener and member of the Town and Country Garden Club. Banker died on November 9, 1968. Louise moved to Moorhead in 1981.Louise is survived by four sons, James, Barnesville, MN, Lewis Barbara, Fargo, ND, Ronald Judy, Fargo, and Roger Kathryn, Glyndon, MN; one daughter, Margaret, Lake Park, MN; one brother, Lawrence Belle Gilbery, Moorhead, MN; one sister, Connie John Kopp, Moorhead, MN; seventeen grandchildren and twenty seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one brother, Fred, and two sisters, Doris Skolness and Evelyn Langlie.