Sylvia E. Dahlgren

Sylvia was born February 3, 1918, in Sabin, MN, to Ted and Johana Koplau Wheelright. She grew up and attended school in Barnesville, MN, graduating from Barnesville High School. Sylvia was married to Lawrence S. Dahlgren on June 20, 1942, in Luverne, MN. Following their marriage, they farmed near Adams, ND, and in 1949 moved to the Lake Ida area, south of Lake Park, MN, where they farmed. Lawrence died October 3, 1990. Sylvia was an active member of Cormorant Lutheran Church and St. Paul's Free Lutheran Church, in Fargo, ND, for many years. She was very active in volunteer work, and loved gardening and fishing. Sylvia was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Ruth Cornell, Grants Pass, OR; two brothers, Arthur Wheelright, Hawley, MN, and Loren Wheelright, Barnesville, MN; her husband, Lawrence, who died in 1990; and her daughter, Donna. She is survived by two sons, Michael Mavis Dahlgren, Jamestown, ND, and David Dahlgren, Fargo, ND; two daughters, Mary Gary Regelstad, Cormorant, MN, and Julie Tom Fugleberg, Roseau, MN; twelve grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.