Obituaries

Local Obituaries Of Pine & Chisago County

Angeline Pauline Booth

Angeline Pauline Booth

Feb 2, 2013

Angeline "Angie" Pauline Booth of Rush City died Saturday, February 2, 2013 at her home in Rush City at the age of 83. Angie was born May 23, 1929 at home in St. Anthony Village to Soren and Sophia (Hunt) Sorensen. She attended Edison High School and graduated from Robbinsdale High School in 1947. The first sixteen years of her...

Lila H. Irlbeck

Lila H. Irlbeck

Jan 28, 2013

Lila Irlbeck, age 88, of Pine City died January 28th at Cambridge Medical Center. Lila is survived by sons: Gary Irlbeck and his wife Jessie of Hinckley, Pete Irlbeck and his wife Peggy of Pine City, Jim Irlbeck of Hinckley; Roger Irlbeck of Hinckley; daughter Deborah Hocum and her husband Kirtes of Pine City; 11 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; 3 great...

Odell Gordon Nordby

Odell Gordon Nordby

Jan 28, 2013

Odell Nordby of Pokegama Township died on Monday, January 28, 2013 at the age of 82. Odell is survived by his daughters: Barbara Nordby of Pine City, Debra Arttus and her husband Tom of Grasston, Sandra Nicholson and her husband Bob of Brook Park; 8 grandchildren, and 15 great grandchildren. Reverend Vicki VanderVegt will officiate a funeral service for Odell...

Margaret Hattie Braasch

Margaret Hattie Braasch

Jan 27, 2013

Margaret Hattie Braasch was born to Rudolph and Ella Lamp on August 25, 1919 in Ogilvie, Minnesota where she grew up and attended Ogilvie public schools. She married LeRoy Braasch on March 24, 1949. They had 2 daughters: Maxine and Joanne. In 1955, they moved to Pine City where they first owned and operated the Topic Ballroom. Later they owned...

Steven Owen Galati

Steven Owen Galati

Jan 23, 2013

Steven Owen Galati, age 62, of Pine City died January 23, 2013 at Community Living Options of rural Pine City. Steve was born to Joseph and Norma Galati on October 1, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Mound High School in 1969. Steve is survived by sisters: Sally Griep of Chanhassen, Peg Roddy Reeg and her husband Mike of...

Richard Roy Olson

Richard Roy Olson

Jan 21, 2013

Born in Saint Paul on October 7th 1945 Richard “Dick” Roy Olson began his journey through life. He was the son of Roy and Alice Olson. Richard had an older sister Pat and brother Bob along with a younger brother Tom. Richard went to Johnson high school in Saint Paul where he had graduated from in 1963. After Graduation, Richard...

Flavio "Floyd" Martinez

Flavio "Floyd" Martinez

Jan 15, 2013

Flavio Martinez was born June 7, 1938 in Anton Chico, New Mexico to Jose and Rita Martinez. His mother was Italian and his father Mexican. His mother died when Flavio was quite young and he was raised by his paternal grandparents in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1957, Flavio moved to Colorado and eventually to Minneapolis, MN and became known as...

Delores Helen Dean

Delores Helen Dean

Jan 12, 2013

Delores Helen Dean, age 80, of Pine City died Saturday, January 12th at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids. Delores was born on June 18, 1932 to Joseph and Esther Williams. She married Robert Dean and they had four children: Barbara, Raymond, Theresa and Charles. She is preceded in death by her parents Joseph and Esther Williams, her husband Robert Dean,...

Philipp Wayne Senske

Philipp Wayne Senske

Jan 1, 2013

Philipp Wayne Senske, born June 27, 1968 passed away unexpectedly at his father’s home in Grasston, MN on January 1, 2013. Philipp is survived by his father Ronald Senske, brother Glenn Senske (Kimberlee Bever), nieces Alexa Senske and Kieran Senske and special friend Ronnie Sue McNeil. He was preceded in death by his mother, Karen Marie Senske. Born in Edina,...

Jeffrey Bruce Wolleat

Jeffrey Bruce Wolleat

Dec 30, 2012

Jeff Wolleat of Askov, formerly of Sunrise, died Sunday (12/30/12) in Askov at the age of 54 years. Jeffrey Wolleat is survived by his mother Sandra Wolleat of Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, father Bruce Wolleat of Sunrise, siblings: Lynn Wolleat of Sunrise, Cindy Fatland and her husband Mike of North Branch, and Traci Fletcher of Askov, nephews and niece. Jeffrey...

Lorraine Agnes Grabau

Lorraine Agnes Grabau

Dec 30, 2012

Lorraine Agnes Beccue was born March 3, 1920 to Herman and Agnes Beccue in Waseca County, Minnesota. Lorraine graduated from Willow River High School in June 1937. She married Floyd John Grabau in 1940 in St. Paul, Minnesota. They had four children: Richard, Gary, Steven, and Joy. During their 54 years of marriage, they resided in Mounds View and on...

David Leo Erhart

David Leo Erhart

Dec 29, 2012

David Leo Erhart of Pine City passed away December 29, 2012 at Lakeside Medical Center at the age of 64. David was born March 31, 1948 in Duluth, MN and was then adopted and raised by Edward and Olive (Janiskela) Erhart. David was the oldest of three children. David enjoyed watching WWF, WWE wrestling and playing his drum set to...

Matthew Jacob Heath

Matthew Jacob Heath

Dec 27, 2012

Matthew Heath of Rush City, died December 27, 2012, as a result of an auto accident in Rush City at the age of 21 years. Matthew Jacob Heath was born February 8, 1991 in Cambridge, MN. He was raised in Rush City where he attended the Rush City schools, earning his Eagle Scout at the age of 17 and graduated...

Mattie Moses

Mattie Moses

Dec 25, 2012

Mattie Moses of Rush City died Tuesday (12/25/12) at the Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center in Wyoming at the age of 93 years. Mattie Moses is survived by her son Harry Moses and his wife Laura of Princeton, daughter Miriam Hendricks of Wyoming, grandchildren: Todd (Kathleen) Hendricks of Stacy, Teresa (Albert Torre) Moses of Norwalk, Tamara (Brian) Socolofsky of Forest...

Clarence Allan Paulson

Clarence Allan Paulson

Dec 21, 2012

Clarence Allan “Paul” Paulson died Friday, December 21 at the Mississippi State Veterans Home, Oxford, MS. He was 93 and died of pneumonia. Mr. Paulson, a resident of Memphis for the past 60 years, was born on July 12, 1919 in Duluth, Minnesota to Emma Johnson, of Pine City, Minnesota and Paul Paulson, originally from Norway. Mr. Paulson’s father died...

Doloros Elisebeth Erhart

Doloros Elisebeth Erhart

Dec 15, 2012

Doloros was born October 20, 1917, the fourth child of nine to Appolonia (Hauer) Kraft and Henry Kraft of Bentley, North Dakota. Farming in North Dakota was very difficult in the dry years and the family decided to move to Pine City, Minnesota, in the fall of 1919. They temporarily located east of Pine City and then moved to their...

Shirley I. Karas

Shirley I. Karas

Dec 15, 2012

Shirley died Saturday, December 15th at Golden Horizons Assisted Living in Pine City at the age of 93 years. She was preceded in death by her husband Tony and a sister Irene Schlotterbeck.  She is survived by a brother Bayliss Swanson and his wife Margery of Pine City, a sister Phyllis and her husband Harold Kick of PIne City, nieces; ...

Glenn C. Karas

Glenn C. Karas

Nov 30, 2012

Glenn C. Karas formerly of Pine City, died Friday evening, November 30th at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Minneapolis. He was 89 years old. Glenn C. Karas was born on February 1, 1923 in Braham, Minnesota to Joe and Frances Marie (Toman) Karas. He grew up on the family farm east of Pine City on government road where he lived...

Kenneth Raymond Kotek

Kenneth Raymond Kotek

Nov 28, 2012

Ken died last Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 28th at the Lakeside Nursing Home in Pine City.  He was 93 years old. Kenneth was born on the family farm to Joseph and Anna (Basta) Kotek.  When he was 5 years old, his father Joseph died.  At that time Ken and his mother moved into the town of Pine City and he began...

Jean Lorraine Prudhomme

Jean Lorraine Prudhomme

Nov 27, 2012

Mrs. Jean Prudhomme of Rush City died Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at the Golden Living Center at the age of 85 years. She is survived by her children: Nancy Asp and her husband Brad of Brooklyn Park, Michele Larson and her husband Mark of Braham, Mark Prudhomme and his wife Debbie of Rush City, Scott Prudhomme and his wife Colleen...