Obituaries
Lorena Marie Bragg
Mar 21, 2011
Obituary Notice Lorena M. Bragg Lorena Maria Bragg, age 93, of Lake City, died Monday, March 21, at the Lake City Nursing Home. Lorena was born April 19, 1917 in Lake Township, Wabasha County to John and Minnie (Glander) Allers. She attended school in Lake City. She married Harlem Wiebusch on May 2, 1934. They owned and operated Lake City...
Raymond Wilfred Westerberg
Mar 20, 2011
Raymond Wilfred Westerberg, 94, of Red Wing, died Sunday, March 20, at the Fairview Red Wing Medical Center. He was born on April 30, 1916, in Stockholm, Wis. to Elmer and Alice Westerberg. He attended schools in Red Wing. He then served in the US Army during World War II with the 82nd Airborne as a paratrooper. On December 21,...
Gladys Carol LeCuyer
Mar 19, 2011
Funeral services for Gladys LeCuyer will be held Saturday, March 26th at 1:00 PM at Mahn Family Funeral Home, Rochester Chapel. The Reverend Karna Hagen will officiate. Mrs. LeCuyer, 84, of Rochester, died Saturday, March 19, 2011 at Seasons Hospice in Rochester. Gladys Carol Benson was born September 21, 1926 in Minneapolis, the daughter of John and Frances (nee Binggold)...
Patricia Joy Freiheit
Mar 18, 2011
Patricia Joy Freiheit, 56, of Red Wing, died on March 18, 2011 at the Fairview Seminary Home. She was born of September 13, 1954 in Rochester, Minnesota to Marvin and Darlene (Hilke) Thune. She graduated in 1972 from John Marshall High School in Rochester. She then joined the US Army and served during the Vietnam War as a communication specialist....
Eleanor Peterson
Mar 17, 2011
Eleanor Ingeborg Peterson, 96, Red Wing, died Thursday, March 17, 2011 at Valentine's Assisted Living in Red Wing. She was born September 21, 1914 in Cannon Falls, MN, the daughter of Nels and Alma Victoria (Lundin) Johnson. She attended school near the Belle Creek area. She married Fred A. Peterson in August, 1932. They farmed in the White Rock area...
Raymond Gust Thumann
Mar 17, 2011
Raymond Gust Thumann, 87, Hastings, died Thursday, March 17, 2011 at Augustana Nursing Home in Hastings. He was born July 18, 1923, in Red Wing, the son of Gust John and Svea Amelia (Johnson) Thumann. He attended schools in Goodhue County and he worked at Red Wing Pottery before joining the U. S. Navy. He returned to Red Wing, then...
Raymond Clarence Matthees
Mar 16, 2011
Raymond Clarence Matthees, age 66 of Goodhue died on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at his home in Goodhue. Raymond was born November 4, 1944 in Goodhue Township, the son of Clarence and Frances (Mehrkens) Matthees. He attended District #118, Zumbrota and Goodhue Schools, graduating from Goodhue High School in 1962. He served in the US Army National Guard from September...
Ione Eugenia Peterson Mountain
Mar 16, 2011
Ione Eugenia Peterson Mountain, 93, Red Wing, died Wednesday March 16, 2011 at Valentine's Assisted Living. She was born on January 3, 1918 in Bay City, the daughter of Christ and Helen (Halvorson) Lynner. She attended school at Elm Grove and graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1936. She married Norman Peterson on April 20, 1939. They farmed in Hartland...
Eleanor S. Gauger
Mar 15, 2011
Eleanor "Ellie" S. Gauger, 82, Red Wing, died Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at Fairview Seminary Home. She was born March 7, 1929 in Winona, Minnesota, the daughter of Benjamin and Clara (Becktle) Stansfield. She was a 1946 graduate of Winona High School. She married William Gauger on December 11, 1948 in Winona. They moved to Minneapolis, then lived in the...
Chad A. Luhman
Mar 14, 2011
In acknowledgment of a wonderful existence, we honor the memory of Chad Arlan Luhman, our ever-living father, brother, and son. After a fulfilling life, Mr. Luhman passed away peacefully due to complications of knee surgery at his parent's home, near Bellechester, MN on the morning of March 14, 2011. He was 36. Chad A. Luhman was born on April Fool's...
Jerry Dean Bork
Mar 14, 2011
Jerry Dean Bork, age 72, of Wanamingo, passed away Monday March 14, 2011 at his home. Jerry was born on January 23, 1939 in Plymouth, IA to Clarence and Muriel (Buehrer) Bork. He worked on the railroad for over 35 years. He was the Section Foreman in Wanamingo for several years until the railroad was taken out of the area....
Mable Grossbach
Mar 12, 2011
Mable J. Grossbach, 100, died Saturday, March 12, 2011. She was born on July 4, 1910 in rural Ferryville, WI. In 1928 she graduated from Central High School in La Crosse, WI., and worked as a secretary at Erickson Bakery and at the Auto-Lite which made airplane parts during World War II. She married Carl Grossbach and moved to Red...
Allan John Heins
Mar 12, 2011
Obituary for Allan Heins Allan John Heins, age 87 of Lake City, died Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the Red Wing Health Center in Red Wing. Allan was born on August 10, 1923, in Florence Township, the son of John and Christina (Dankers) Heins. He attended country school, and the School of Agriculture in St. Paul. Allan entered the United...

Viola Katherine Rohe
Mar 12, 2011
Viola Katherine Rohe, age 93 of Red Wing, died Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the Zumbrota Nursing Home. Viola was born May 31, 1917, in Red Wing, the daughter of Walter and Amalia (Strusz) Dicke. She grew up in the Red Wing area and attended Featherstone and Immanuel Lutheran Schools. She was employed as a house worker before she was...
Bernice Mary Wiebusch
Mar 11, 2011
Bernice Mary Wiebusch, age 89, of Lake City died Friday, March 11, 2011, at the Lake City Hospital Mayo Health System. Bernice was born September 29, 1921 in Gillford Township to Joseph and Johanna (Laqua) Krismer. She was raised on a farm near Lake City, where she attended country schools and later graduated from Lake City High School. In 1941...
Harold F. Mohlke
Mar 10, 2011
Harold F. Mohlke age 84 of Pine Island, formerly of Oronoco died suddenly at his home in Pine Island on Thursday, March 10, 2011. The funeral service is scheduled for Monday, March 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM at the Mahn Family Funeral Home - Mahler Chapel in Pine Island with Pastor Dwight LaPine of Calvary Baptist Church officiating. Burial will...
Rebecca Walch
Mar 10, 2011
Surrounded by her loved ones, Rebecca Ann Walch of Zumbrota, Minnesota died on Thursday, March 10, 2011. Rebecca will be remembered as a woman who lived for her family and created beauty in the simplest of things. Rebecca was born during The Depression Years to Elmer and Maude Wirt in Lewiston, a small farming community in southeastern Minnesota, on August...
Margaret Traxler
Mar 9, 2011
ROCHESTER Margaret Traxler, 67, of Rochester, died Wednesday (March 9, 2011) at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Margaret Mae Deobald was born Sept. 17, 1943 in Bremerton, Washington to Clayton and Alice (Greer) Deobald. She moved to Minnesota in 1950, was raised in Rochester, and graduated from John Marshall High School in 1962. In 1965 she married Keith Traxler in...
Mary Belle Anderson
Mar 9, 2011
Mary Belle "Mitzi" Anderson, 80, of Red Wing, died Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at the Fairview Seminary Home. She was born Oct. 4, 1930, in Red Wing, to Henning and Leona (Siepelmeyer) Anderson. She graduated from Red Wing Central High School in 1948 and then attended Carthage College. On Sept. 8, 1951, she married Robert C. "Curly" Anderson in Red...
Gary R. Babler
Mar 9, 2011
Gary Ralph Babler, 64, of Bellechester, died from complications due to cancer on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at Fairview University Medical Center in Minneapolis. He was born May 9, 1946 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin to Ralph and Grace (Kragness) Babler. His family moved to Red Wing in 1947 and he attended school in Red Wing and in Owatonna. On June 21,...