LeRoy E. (Lee) Markquart, 87, died peacefully at home on May 29, 2018 after a six-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Lee was born on his grandparents’ farm in Dunnell, Minnesota on April 28, 1931 to Ed and Ede Markquart and grew up the second of four children in Jackson, Minnesota. Lee graduated from Jackson High School in 1949 and Macalester […]
2018-06-04
Norita Joann (Kolander) Thaemlitz, 81
Norita Joann (Kolander) Thaemlitz, 81, of Lakefield, Minnesota passed away at Colonial Manor Nursing Home in Lakefield on June 1, 2018. She was born on May 13, 1937 to her parents, Theodore M. Kolander and Erna nee Schmidt. Norita was baptized on May 30, 1937 and celebrated her confirmation on April 2, 1950 at St. Peters Lutheran Church in Lakefield, […]
Goldie Boelman, 96
Goldie Rosalyn Boelman, age 96, of Luverne, died Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at the Ava’s House Hospice in Sioux Falls, SD. She was born to Herman and Anna (Rubbie) Siemer on August 12, 1921 at home in Westside Township in Nobles County – North of Ellsworth, MN. Goldie later moved with her family East of Ellsworth where she attended country […]