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Audrey Corrine Lunder
Oct 18, 2018
Audrey Corrine (Erickson) Lunder, 94, passed away at Viking Manor Nursing Home, Ulen, MN on Thursday, October 18, 2018. She was born at home in Rollag, MN, on May 29, 1924, to Roy and Allie (Fjaer) Erickson.
Audrey walked to country school approximately three miles one way. Her dad would bring them to school by horse and sleigh when it...
Agnes A. Gross
Oct 15, 2018
Agnes Gross, 92, of Hawley, MN, passed away Monday, October 15, 2018 at Hawley Senior Living under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Agnes Vobora was born April 21, 1926 in Granton, WI, daughter of Bohemian immigrants Tony and Mary (Marek) Vobora. She attended Mayflower Country School in Lynn Township, Clark Co., WI, where she walked 1...
Dylan Marie Feller
Oct 13, 2018
Dylan Marie Feller, infant daughter of Brittany Feller, passed away peacefully on October 13th, 2018 in her mother’s arms, surrounded by loved ones, after just 6 short, but courageous weeks. Dylan was born at 3:01 in the afternoon on August 31, 2018 and passed away at 12:25 in the afternoon on October 13, 2018. Dylan touched so many lives in...
Vicky Westra
Oct 13, 2018
Vicky Westra, 51, of Moorhead, MN, passed away on Saturday, October 13, 2018, at home under the care of family and Hospice of the Red River Valley. Vicky was born in Moorhead on July 16, 1967, to Willard and Mary Ann (Brainerd) Held. She grew up and attended school in Moorhead before continuing her education at Concordia College. After graduating...
Charles D. Olsgaard
Oct 12, 2018
Lt. Colonel Charles Olsgaard, Retired
Charles “Chuck” Olsgaard, 87, a resident of Farmstead Memory Care passed away October 12, 2018 with his wife and daughter present, he was under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley and the caring staff of Farmstead Care in Moorhead, MN.
Chuck was born May 7, 1931 on the family farm near Rustad,...
Arloine E. Mithun
Oct 12, 2018
Arloine Estelle (Sander) Mithun of Moorhead, MN, passed away on Friday, October 12, 2018.
Arloine was born to Frank and Linda (Stromberg) Sander on February 5, 1930, in Moorhead, MN. On June 18, 1955, Arloine was united in marriage to her college sweetheart, Calvin Mithun. They made their first and only home in Moorhead, MN. Together they had two children,...
Beverly J. Hest
Oct 11, 2018
Beverly Hest died Thursday, October 11, 2018, in Eagan, MN. She was 90 years old.
Beverly Jean Tehven was born May 12, 1928, in Moorhead, to Wendell and Gina Tehven. Bev was the oldest daughter in a large family (8 children). Growing up at a time when electricity had not yet come to the Red River Valley, Bev worked hard...
David A. Kankelfitz
Oct 11, 2018
David A. Kankelfitz, age 50, of Fargo, ND passed away on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at Sanford Medical Center, surrounded by his family. For thirteen months, Dave survived a very rare and aggressive form of Leukemia, thanks in part to his son Nathan’s generous gift of his stem cells.
David Al Kankelfitz was born on August 20, 1968 in Fargo...
Carol E. Godson
Oct 9, 2018
Carol Nelson Godson, 90, of Moorhead, MN, passed away on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, at RiverPointe Senior Living Community of Moorhead, under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Carol Elaine Johnson was born December 25, 1927, to Oscar and Ida Erickson Johnson. She grew up in Moorhead, graduating from Moorhead High School in 1945, where she was...
Eleen M. Olson
Oct 9, 2018
Eleen M. Olson, 86, of Lake Park, MN, passed away on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, at Essentia Health in Fargo, ND. Eleen was born on March 29, 1932, in Moorhead, MN, to Elmer and Ethel (McDonald) Rosman. She grew up south of Lake Park and attended country school and later went to Lake Park, MN, where she graduated from high...
Deborah J. Hellman
Oct 8, 2018
Deborah Jean (Block) Hellman, the daughter of Marvin and Darlene Block, was born July 7, 1959 in Fargo, North Dakota. She died at the age of 59 on Monday, October 8, 2018 at Sanford Health in Fargo, North Dakota.
Debbie was raised in the homes of her parents in Willow City, ND, where she started her education, and in 1973...
Julie R. Markey
Oct 6, 2018
Julie R. Markey, 60, of Fargo, ND, died Saturday, October 6, 2018, at home under the care of Family and Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Funeral services will be held at a later date.
Patrick Richard “Pat” Peterson
Oct 6, 2018
Patrick “Pat” Richard Peterson, 67, of Moorhead, MN, passed away on Saturday, October 6, 2018, in Sanford Medical Center, Fargo, ND. Pat was born on December 12, 1950 to Richard and Evon (Erickson) Peterson in Valley City, ND.
Pat grew up in north Fargo, ND where he graduated from Fargo North High School. He began Peterson Mobile Home Services and...
Gary P. King
Oct 4, 2018
Gary Paul King passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on October 4, 2018, at the age of 78.
Gary was born on July 10, 1940, in Fargo, ND, to Lester and Alice (Glennon) King. He grew up in Wolverton, MN and graduated from Breckenridge High School. In 1960 he enlisted in the United States Air Force. In 1962 he...
Shirley Nappe
Oct 3, 2018
Shirley Larson Nappe passed away October 3, 2018, at Serenity Assisted Living in Dilworth, MN, surrounded by her children.
She was born May 15, 1927, at Ada, MN, to Roy and Mildred (Holte) Larson, of Mahnomen, MN. She was the oldest of 4 girls. She graduated from Mahnomen High School in 1945. She married Odean Nappe on June 8, 1945...
James A. “Jim” Lindley
Oct 3, 2018
James A. Lindley, age 78, of Moorhead, MN died peacefully on October 3, 2018. James “Jim” Amos Lindley was born on December 3, 1939 in Paoli, IN to John and Martha “Dolly” (Cole) Lindley.
After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1962 until 1968, Jim received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from Purdue University in 1972. He was professor emeritus of...
Beverly N. Bjelde
Oct 1, 2018
Beverly Nadean (Meyer) Bjelde was born on October 1, 1936, in Sanborn, MN. She died peacefully on October 1, 2018 surrounded by loved ones.
Her early years in Sanborn included education in a one-room schoolhouse through the 6th grade, while spending summers on the family farm driving a tractor at age 11. The family moved to Moorhead during her senior...
Sharon A. Larson
Sep 30, 2018
Sharon A. Larson, 70, of Fargo, ND, passed away on Sunday, September 30, 2018 at Sanford Health, Fargo, ND.
Sharon Ann was born January 20, 1948 to Kenneth and Mary Ellen (Baukol) Molitor in Devils Lake, ND. She graduated from Moorhead Senior High School in 1966 and worked at Metropolitan Savings and Loan after graduation. Sharon was united in marriage...
L. Steven Swisher
Sep 30, 2018
Steven Swisher, age 65, of Fargo, ND, passed away on Sunday, September 30, 2018 in his home under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Louis Steven Swisher was born on March 9, 1953 in Peoria, IL to Louis John and Eleanor Grace (Hall) Swisher. Steven and family to a farm outside of West Fargo shortly after he...
Katelyn Ann “Katie” Bjorndahl
Sep 29, 2018
Katelyn Ann Bjorndahl received her angel wings on September 29, 2018 at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, North Dakota.
Katie was born on October 8, 1997 to Aaron and Lisa Bjorndahl. She attended pre-school through high school graduation in Hawley, Minnesota. She went on to attend NDSCS in Wahpeton, North Dakota and graduated with her Associates Degree in Liberal Arts...
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