Myrtle “Ode” Askelson

Myrtle Ode Askelson, 95, passed away at Sunnyside Care Center, Lake Park, Minnesota on Saturday, November 27, 2004. Myrtle was born April 6, 1909 to Thomas and Clara Thrope Kohler, in Audubon, Minnesota. After her schooling she worked at home and for other extended families. She married Eivind W. Ode on March 30, 1933. They farmed at Audubon and Lake Park, Minnesota. On January 3, 1965, Eivind passed away. She moved to Detroit Lakes and worked at Blandings Department Store for a number of years. On July 8, 1978 she was united in marriage to Henry Askelson and made her home at Felton, Minnesota, returning to Lake Park when Henry passed away on June 2, 1992.She was a homemaker, loved to bake and was a faithful and life long member of Immanuel Lutheran Church at Audubon, Minnesota. She was the oldest of her family of eight and all others precede her in death. She had been a resident of Sunnyside Care Center since June of 2003. Myrtle was preceded in death by her two husbands, brothers, Julian, Delbert, Alan and Leonard, and sisters, Winnifred Friese, Frances Larson Bakken, and Charlotte Gallagher, and one great granddaughter, Gretchen Nelson.Myrtle was a dear wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend.She is survived by three children: LaVonne Donald Askelson, Lake Park, MN, Sharon Donald Kvilvang, Hibbing, MN, and Eldred Becky Ode, Lake Park, MN; fifteen grandchildren, thirty-three great grandchildren, and six great great grandchildren; step-son, Clair Sharon Askelson, Felton, MN, five step-grandchildren, eleven step great grandchildren; three sisters-in-law, Viola Kohler and Charlotte Kohler of Detroit Lake, MN, and Leila Ode, Phoenix, AZ; brother-in-law, James Gallagher, Lansing, MI; and many nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank Sunnyside Care Center for their love and care of mother, and a special thanks to her nurse granddaughter, Julie, who was her guardian angel the last eighteen months.