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Moeller, Patricia Joan (Drake) of Beloit, WI, formerly of Brooklyn Center and Kenwood, MN passed away on August 5, 2022. In her youth, she immersed herself in books, poetry, and theater. At the age of 18, she married WWII veteran James R. Moeller. Together they had 2 children and were married for 69 years. Pat's greatest joy revolved around her children and grandchildren who brought her laughter, pride, and fond memories of time spent at the family cabin on Mille Lacs Lake. She loved playing cards and Scrabble; also finding great pleasure in sitting down with a Diet Pepsi, a cookie, and her magazines or a crossword puzzle. She enjoyed travel and cruises with Jim, most notably a month in...

SGM Retired Robert E. Stroot, 89, from St. Michael, MN went to join his heavenly father on July 30, 2022. Bob was born in Euclid, MN was commonly known as Daddy, SGM or Uncle Bob. Dad proudly started his military career in the Army when he was 18 (1951). He served multiple tours in Korea & Vietnam in the Wolfehound & Airborne division, receiving many medals of honor for his bravery & service. After retiring from the Army Bob worked 47 years with Herc-U-Lift. Dad was an avid card and cribbage player, he would always be willing to play a game when asked. After dad joined AA, he had a love for travel. His route was never from point A to point B, he would zig zag across the...

James Arne Bogen was born on December 29, 1954, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the second of four sons born to Roy and Mary Ellen Bogen. Jim attended Lincoln high School in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Jim passed away on July 9, 2022, in Bozeman Montana. He was preceded in death by his father, Roy, and mother, Mary Ellen. He is survived by his wife, Kay, daughter Kara, son Joe, and son Tom, brother Tim, brother Jon, brother Tom, and beloved nieces, nephews, and extended family members. Services have been held. Donations may be made in Jim's name to Montana State Parks foundation, 400 West Broadway Street, Suite 101-424, Missoula, Montana 59802, as he...

survived by 4 children, 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Private Inurnment at North Maple Ridge Cemetery, Braham. Hamilton FHs - Rock Chapel. www.hamiltonfhs.com

Roland Merrill "Rollie" Holt, 87, of South Hutchinson Island, FL, entered the Kingdom of Heaven on Sunday, July 2, 2022. Rollie was preceded in death by his loving wife Carolyn "Carol" and is survived by his son Michael (Aixa) and grandson Oliver. Rollie spent almost 40 years in the banking industry. Upon retirement, Rollie and Carol enjoyed traveling and spending summers at their lake home in Siren, Wisconsin and winters at their ocean front condo in Florida with family and friends. An Graveside Inurnment Service will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 2:00 pm at Fernhill Memorial Gardens, 1501 S. Kanner Highway, Stuart, FL. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in loving memory...

Irma K. Cameron passed away peacefully at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida on July 2, 2022 at 7:22 p.m. following a decades-long battle with Lupus SLE, which compromised over the years many of her critical organs. She was born on December 25, 1948 in Rovaniemi, Finland on the Arctic Circle. As a young woman, she immigrated to the United States with her baby son Jari, initially settling in Cloquet, Minnesota. Most of her professional career was with General Mills Corporation in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Her experience included managing the Tampa, Florida sales office and managing the corporate Consumer Relations department. As the manager of Consumer Relations, she often was an...

Carole Ione McFarland, age 84 of Carrollton, Georgia passed away Monday, June 27, 2022. She leaves behind to cherish her memory, her husband, Walter Donald McFarland; son, Walter Donald McFarland, Jr., daughter, Kathryn McFarland; brothers, Billy (Dotty) Johnson, Harold (Juanita) Johnson, and Jerry (Raye) Johnson; grandchildren, Maxwell McFarland, Emanuel Rustin, and Jonathan Rustin; and a host of nieces and nephews, and lifelong friends. The family will host a memorial tribute service at a later date in September 2022 in the Twin Cities. The full obituary can be viewed at www.martin-hightower.com.

John Roger Van Gieson, of Seabrook Island, South Carolina, passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 16, 2022 with his wife by his side. He was 61 years old. John was born to Walter and Joan Van Gieson in Yonkers, NY, on September 17, 1960. His family moved to Raleigh, NC when he was four and he remained in Raleigh until heading off to college. John attended Appalachian State University, in Boone, NC, and graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the Walker College of Business. After college, John went to work for Oscar Mayer, first as a Sales Representative and then in Sales Management. In 1994, he went to work for Northwestern Mutual Financial Network where he...

Jeannie Alice Welcome, age 73, of The Village's, Florida passed away on June 1, 2022 at Cornerstone House, Clermont, Florida with complications from cancer treatments. She was born on May 22, 1949 in Rochester Minnesota to Regina Jean Hill and Gerald Hill, who passed before Jeannie was born. Jeannie grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota. She graduated from Holy Angel's High School. She worked alongside her mother in one of her mother's restaurant's (Hill's Cafe, Hungry Eye, Hill's #2 or Jean's Arcade) in downtown Minneapolis during her high school years on into her early twenties. She would often bring a tray of Carmel rolls for the nun's as penance for tardiness in their classes. She dated her...

Harriett Rippel, 88, passed away Monday, May 30, 2022. Harriett was born in Mora, Minnesota on June 28, 1933 to Ray and Jennie (Sundin) Bismark. The family moved to St. Paul where Harriett attended Baker School and Murray High School. She married Roger Rippel on June 14,1955 and moved to Newington, Connecticut, where she continued to reside for the duration of her life. Family and friends will remember her as a devoted wife and loving mother and grandmother. Proud of her Swedish heritage, she was an avid genealogist ? a hobby that led to the trip of a lifetime to Sweden in 2000. She loved visiting with family, PBS mysteries, bird watching on the porch, and a nice dinner out. Her Christmas...

Andrew Anthony Habiger, 82, of Suwanee, GA passed away surrounded by family on May 27, 2022 from pulmonary fibrosis. Andrew was born on July 19, 1939, the oldest son of Andrew and Lillian (Lass) Habiger's 5 children on the family farm in Sabin, Minnesota. Andy's education began in a one room schoolhouse where he was the only student in his grade from 1st through 8th grade, with the same teacher for all eight years. His winter job at school was to shovel a path to the outhouse each morning. Andy graduated from Moorehead High School before going on to the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul where he earned his bachelor's degree in engineering and master's in business. Andy's career began at...

Timothy DeMuth Schmuck, 72, of Sun Prairie, WI, lived a full life, filled with family, friends, and love. He was devoted to his family and was a loving father and grandfather. While living in the Twin Cities, Tim worked in the grain industry for both Peavy/Conagra and Land O'Lakes. He was an avid Twins fan and he loved treating his friends and family to Twins baseball games. On May 21, 2022, Tim succumbed to a combination of ALS and frontotemporal degeneration after many years of living with the disease. He never stopped smiling, never complained, and continued to try to help his caregivers until the end. He is survived by his wife, Susan, their children, Nick and Kate and their families....

Janet Clara Nelson Patton, age 77, most recently of Sharpsburg, Georgia passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Janet was born February 12, 1945 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to the late Howard John Nelson and the late Dorothy Clara Draheim Nelson. Janet attended Mankato State University and completed her Bachelor's degree in Business Education at Emporia State University. She taught Business Education in various school districts in Texas including (Sherman, Rains ISD, Commerce ISD and Douglass ISD) and developed office education curriculum for the state of Texas. Janet was one of the first computer teachers in Commerce and enjoyed anything to do with business and computers. Her favorite...

Dean W. Fosdick, a resident of Bonita Springs, FL, passed April 27, 2022. For a full, interactive obituary, please visit www.legacyoptions.com and search Dean Fosdick. There you can view pictures and leave condolences.

Bruce Wuollet, 77, passed away with Judy at his side, April 19, 2022. A Celebration of Life will be at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, April 25 at Meadowbrook Baptist Church in Robinson, with David Cozart officiating. Visitation will take place one hour prior to the service and on Sunday, April 24, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home. He will be laid to rest at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery. Bruce was born in Berkeley, California, April 12, 1945. He lived in Sunnyvale, California, until 1958, when his family moved back to Minnesota. Bruce and Judy were married May 13, 2000. Bruce was a school bus driver and custodian in the Robbinsdale School District of Robbinsdale,...

On December 16, 1945, Lillian (Lily) Ann Germundson was born to Charles O. Germundson and Ruth (Ress) Germundson at home in Kenyon, Minnesota. She attended Kenyon Public Schools and graduated in 1963 after being involved in many school activities and part of the 1962 Homecoming Royalty. During her lifetime, she resided in a number of cities which included Oahu, Hawaii; Biloxi, Mississippi; San Francisco, California; Salinas, California, and Circle Pines, Minnesota. She worked many years at 3M, working her way up to a management position. She retired to Donna, Texas. Due to injuries caused by a car accident in Donna, Texas on March 31, 2022, she passed away on April 3, 2022. She was 76 years...

Richard M. ("Dick") Vogel, 92, died peacefully in his sleep at home Thursday morning, St. Patrick's Day, the 17th of March, 2022, following a brief decline in health due to heart disease. He lived a full and wonderful life, bringing joy to all who knew him. Fittingly, for someone who loved to celebrate life, he both entered and left the world on holidays. Born at home on July 4th, 1929, in Ironton, Minnesota, he was the eighth of nine children of Slovenian immigrants Anton and Ursula ("Hrastar") Vogel, who left the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of World War I. In 1952 he married Patricia Ann Trimmer, of Lander, Wyo., who predeceased him in 2008 after 56 years of marriage. They have...

James Patrick "Pat" Toay, age 89, Mora, MN, formerly of Richfield and Burnsville, went to rest with the Lord March 12, 2022. Pat was born on March 15, 1932 in Jamestown, ND. He married the love of his life, Ruth Munyer, in November 1955. Together they raised 6 children in Richfield before moving to Burnsville in 1980. In 1996 after retiring from Sears, Pat and Ruth built a new home in Mora on 40 acres of wooded land they owned. It was here Pat renewed some of his boyhood pursuits which included fishing, hunting, trapping, watching wildlife, growing tomatoes and zucchini, raising pheasants and chickens, and beekeeping. He was often smoking meat, brewing beer, baking bread, and celebrating...

Morris "Jim" Eng formerly of St. Paul, currently of Cambridge, entered God's heavenly kingdom 3/4/22. Jim is survived by his wife of 67 years, Betty (Honzalek). Born to Emelia and Charley Eng 8/3/24 in St. Paul, Jim was a graduate of Washington High School and the U of M. He worked as a hydrologist/geomorphologist for the MN DNR. Memorial Service 11:30 am, Sat. March 12th Braham Ev. Lutheran Church. Visitation 1 hr prior at church. Rock Ingebrand Funeral Home of Braham. www.aifuneralhome.com

Robert Freeman Condon, known as Bob, age 90, Rochester, formerly Litchfield and Albert Lea, died on Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 at his residence in Rochester. A Visitation will be held at Ranfranz and Vine on Friday, March 4th from 5 to 7, and for one hour prior to the service. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Rochester on Saturday, March 5th at 11 AM. Burial will be at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis. Memorials can be directed to ALZ.org. Arrangments have been entrusted to the Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Home in Rochester. www.ranfranzandvinefh.com

Robin Kreatz, 63, of White Sulphur Springs, MT passed away Feb 18, 2022. He was born June 16, 1958, in Minneapolis to Robert and Deborah (Stimler) Kreatz. Read obituary at www.dokkennelson.com.