Obituaries
Eugene Pelkey
Jan 6, 2008
Eugene Sava "Gene" Pelkey, age 90 of Cannon Falls, died on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Gene was born on July 9, 1917 in Hawick, MN, the son of Sava and Nellie (King) Pelkey. He attended the Paynesville area schools. Gene married the former Marcella Bergstrom on April 24, 1943 in Cannon Falls. He worked...
Stanley Hoffman
Jan 4, 2008
Stanley E. Hoffman, age 78 of No. St. Paul, died Friday, January 4, 2008 at Angels Care Center, Cannon Falls, where he has resided for the past 3 1/2 years. He was born May 7, 1929 in Hastings, the son of Peter C. and Ethel (Kieffer) Hoffman. Stan served with the US Marine Corps during WW II and the Korean...
Louis Davisson
Jan 1, 2008
Louis Edmond "Louie" Davisson, age 78 of Cannon Falls, died on Tuesday afternoon, January 1, 2008 at the Angels Care Center in Cannon Falls, following a long illness. Louie was born on December 12, 1929 in Randolph, the son of Oscar and Frieda (Oberdorf) Davisson. During his junior and senior years in high school, he worked with Tony Kruse doing...
Leo Buchardt
Dec 28, 2007
Leo Allan Buchardt, age 78, currently a resident at the Minnesota Masonic Home in Bloomington and formerly of Wanamingo, died on Friday, December 28, 2007 at the Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina. Leo was born on March 10, 1929 in Arlington, NE, the son of Theodore and Pearl (Newkirk) Buchardt. He married Marilyn Carleton on June 11, 1949 at the...
Hazel Lundell
Dec 24, 2007
Hazel Lundell, age 98 of Cannon Falls, died on Monday morning, December 24, 2007 at the Angels Care Center in Cannon Falls. Hazel was born on September 8, 1909 in Cannon Falls, the daughter of Charles and Jennie (Moline) Johnson. She was a member of St. Ansgar's Lutheran Church and was a devoted farm wife and mother. Hazel is lovingly...
Lucille Becker
Dec 23, 2007
Lucille "Lucy" Becker, age 78 of Hampton, died of cancer at her home on Sunday, December 23, 2007. Lucy was born on September 4, 1929 in Coates, MN, the daughter of John and Helga (Larson) Burr. She graduated from Randolph High School in 1947. She went on to graduate from nurses training at St. John's in Red Wing in 1950....
Roy Christensen
Dec 17, 2007
Roy Lynn Christensen, age 60 of Rosemount, and formerly of Bloomington and Cannon Falls, passed away of cancer at his home on Monday, December 17, 2007.
Roy was born on March 28, 1947 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, the son of John "Everett" and Helen L. (VanderWal) Christensen, and grew up in Cannon Falls.
An entrepreneur at heart, he started his own temperature...
Arnold Sundheim
Dec 13, 2007
Arnold Sundheim, age 96 of Cannon Falls, died on Thursday afternoon, December 13, 2007 at the Angels Care Center in Cannon Falls. Arnold was born on May 21, 1911 in Sisseton, South Dakota, the son of July Eric Sundheim and Anna Marie (Bjerke) Sundheim. He attended school, but at an early age, was helping on the family farm. He farmed...
Irma Heitzig
Dec 1, 2007
Irma Jane (nee Munson) Heitzig, age 77 of Inver Grove Heights and formerly of Cannon Falls, died on Saturday afternoon, December 1, 2007 at the Woodlyn Heights Health Care Center in Inver Grove Heights, where she has been residing since 2004. Irma Jane was born on May 27, 1930 in Cannon Falls, the daughter of Victor and Amelia (Johnson) Munson....
Robert Boe
Nov 30, 2007
Robert Elwood Boe, age 67 of Vasa, died Friday morning, November 30, 2007. Following an eleven-year battle with cancer, he was currently being cared for at the Margaret S. Parmly Residence in Chisago City, MN, where they were managing his pain in the final stages of prostate cancer. Bob was born on June 6, 1940 in Dawson, MN, the son...
Marjorie Pagel
Nov 29, 2007
Marjorie Lorraine Pagel, age 89 of Cannon Falls, died on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul. Marjorie was born on July 27, 1918 in Unityville, South Dakota, the daughter of Fred "Almer" and Hannah Appalonia (Larson) Benson. When Marjorie was 18 months of age, her mother died in childbirth and the children came to Cannon Falls...
Lawrence Kasel
Nov 25, 2007
Lawrence William Kasel, age 72 of Cannon Falls, died on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at the Three Links Care Center in Northfield. Lawrence was born in Vermillion on May 29, 1935, the son of George and Kathrine (Zeien) Kasel. He was a graduate of Hastings High School and worked as a self-employed carpenter most all of his life. He also...
James Meath
Nov 21, 2007
James Louis Meath, age 74 of Fruitland Park, Florida and formerly of Red Wing, died on Wednesday afternoon, November 21, 2007 at their home in Red Wing. He was born on April 29, 1933 in Fargo, North Dakota, the son of Frank and Laura (Vore) Meath. He received his Electrical Engineering degree from the Wahpeton School of Science. Jim was...
Eddie Nelson
Nov 19, 2007
Eddie Randolph Nelson, age 94 of Cannon Falls, died on Monday evening, November 19, 2007 at the Zumbrota Care Center, where he has been residing since, January, 2007. Eddie was born on May 13, 1913 on the family farm near Ogilvie, MN, the son of Edward and Mary (Erickson) Nelson. He graduated from Spring Brook Elementary and Ogilvie High School....
Clarence Nelson, Jr
Nov 10, 2007
Clarence R. Nelson, Jr., age 52, of Red Wing, died unexpectedly on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at the Fairview Red Wing Medical Center in Red Wing. Clarence was born on August 6, 1955 in Zumbrota, the son of Clarence R., Sr. and Helen L. (Stafford) Nelson. He attended school in Cannon Falls where he graduated with the class of 1974....
Dorothea Schulz
Nov 8, 2007
Dorothea Gray Schulz, age 95, of Cannon Falls, died Thursday afternoon November 8, 2007 at the Angels Care Center in Cannon Falls. Dorothea was born on September 27, 1912, the daughter of Thomas and Ann (Gray) Morgan in Saint Paul. She attended Red Wing High School and worked at the Ben Franklin in Red Wing. Dorothea married Arnold J. Schulz...
Margaret Skillestad
Nov 7, 2007
Margaret J. Skillestad, age 90 of Cannon Falls, died on Wednesday morning, November 7, 2007 at the Angels Care Center in Cannon Falls. Margaret was born on July 23, 1917 in Cannon Falls, the daughter of Gust and Hattie (Ring) Wahlberg. She attended school in Cannon Falls and upon graduation she attended college and got her teaching certificate. Margaret first...
LuVerne Olson
Nov 6, 2007
LuVerne A. Olson, age 88, of Northfield and formerly of Cannon Falls, died on Tuesday morning, November 6, 2007 at the Northfield Care Center. LuVerne was born at home on the farm in Leon Township on November 27, 1918, the son of Oscar and Emma (Miller) Olson. He graduated from the Cannon Falls High School, and farmed in Leon Township...
Orlando Norstad, Sr
Nov 4, 2007
Orlando was born on March 19, 1916 in Zumbrota, the son of Oscar Cornelius and Rachel Josephine (Greseth) Norstad. He attended country school in Zumbrota. Orlando married Edna Marie Paul on October 14, 1938 at the Vasa Chapel. They farmed for 55 years, starting in Cannon Falls Township, and later in Skunk Hollow (Leon Township). Along with working his own...
Mary Mills
Oct 29, 2007
Mary Louise Mills, age 81 of Cannon Falls, died on Monday afternoon, October 29, 2007 at United Hospital in St. Paul. Mary was born at home in Cannon Falls Township on August 18, 1926, the daughter of John and Violet Wahlstrom. She attended country school until she was 15 years old, and upon the death of her mother at that...
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