Obituaries

Daniel Sadler

Aug 10, 2024

Can you imagine a world where you are grateful for every day? Where you never stay upset with anyone for more than 15 minutes? Where you can get really, really excited about the small things in life, like a Dairy Queen treat, a boat ride, or going to the county fair?

Daniel Sadler was the very definition of 'letting your...

Joseph Werre

Aug 10, 2024

Joseph William Werre Jr., age 95, died on August 10, 2024. He was born at home in Grand Forks, ND on April 14, 1929 to Joseph Werre and Elizabeth Balough Werre. He served in the army from 1946-1948 with the occupation of Japan. Upon returning home, he received his Equivalency Diploma. He married the love of his life, Helen Michelson,...

Karen Vangness

Aug 10, 2024

Karen May Vangness (Bluhm) age 82, passed away peacefully on August 10, 2024 at Season's Hospice. She was born May 3rd 1942 in Waldorf to Martin and Dorothy (Young) Bluhm. She attended school in Waldorf. In June 1962 she married Robert Thorson and had 2 children. They later divorced. On January 2nd 1977 she married Roger Vangness. Karen worked in...

Donald Johnson

Aug 6, 2024

Donald Evi Johnson, age 88, of Rochester, MN passed away Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 in Rochester, MN. He was born March 26th, 1936 in St. Peter, MN to Carlton and Dora (Miller) Johnson. He grew up in Rochester and graduated Rochester High School class of 1954. Donald served in the U.S. Army from October 1954 to Sept 1956. Then was...

Bertha Hoffman

Aug 6, 2024

Bertha H. Hoffman, age 92, passed away Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at St. Therese Care Center in Brooklyn Park, MN.

Bertha Helen Hoffman was born on June 2, 1932 in Merricourt, ND the daughter of John and Emily (Schnik) Middlestead. She married Fred C. Hoffman on September 9, 1949 in Aberdeen, SD. Bertha worked as a seamstress at the...

Jeanne Grant

Aug 2, 2024

Jeanne E. Grant, 64, of Rochester, passed away on Friday, August 2, 2024, at her home, after a 7-month battle with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) otherwise known as Lou Gerig's disease.

Jeanne was born on July 9, 1960, in Detroit, MI to Richard and Patricia Grant. She earned her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and graduate degree from University of...

Jonathan Tomshine

Aug 2, 2024

Jonathan Robert Tomshine was born in the Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota on Friday, August 8, 1980. He passed away in Mayo's Methodist Hospital on Friday, August 2, 2024. Jonathan suffered a prolonged and very disheartening battle with liver disease, and at the end, cancer.

This remarkable man who was struck down in his prime, was a very busy...

Florene Whipple

Aug 1, 2024

Florene Laura (Nash) Whipple, a beloved mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 1, 2024, at the age of 98. She left this world surrounded by her loving family at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.

Born on January 12, 1926, to Meta (Westphal) and Earl H. Nash in Wykoff, Fillmore County, Minnesota, Florene was a beacon...

Sharon Landsworth

Jul 31, 2024

Sharon Landsworth went to heaven to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus on July 31, 2024.

She was born on February 11, 1950 on her mother's birthday in Mondovi Wi. She grew up on a dairy farm near Gilmanton Wi with her parents Harlan and Lorraine Plett and sisters Barbara and Mary and brother Jim. She thoroughly enjoyed the farm...

Duane Johnson

Jul 30, 2024

Duane "Dewey" Johnson died on July 30, 2024.

Dewey was born on June 6, 1930 in Red Wing, MN. He graduated from Red Wing High School and Hamline University. He married his high school sweetheart and next-door neighbor, Kathryn (Kak) Swanson on June 14, 1952. They enjoyed over 60 years of a wonderful life together.

Several months after their marriage,...

Susan Ocheltree

Jul 29, 2024

Susan Dianne Ocheltree, age 77, of Rochester, MN passed away on Monday, July 29th, 2024, at Madonna Towers in Rochester, MN. Susan was born January 19, 1947, in Rochester, MN to George and Edna (Theel) Nemoede. She attended and graduated from John Marshall High School in 1965. She then went on to attend Rochester Jr. College and Winona State University....

Sandra Kaplan

Jul 29, 2024

Sandy Kaplan, age 88, of Rochester, MN, passed away peacefully with her children by her side on Monday, July 28, 2024.



Sandra was born December 31, 1935 in Minneapolis, the daughter of Edward and Rose (Siegal) Goldman. She graduated from North High School in Minneapolis. She moved to Los Angeles after high school and was an x-ray technician for...

Jana Eide

Jul 29, 2024

Jana Marie "Pooh Bear" Eide passed away on July 29, 2024. Jana was born Feb. 2, 1970, in Spring Valley, MN, and attended Mabel-Canton Elementary school and lived on a dairy farm. She moved to Rochester and graduated from John Marshall High School in 1992. She lived in Hiawatha Homes for 30 years, in the 24th Street house and the...

Ronald Breen

Jul 24, 2024

Ronald David Breen (75) of Rochester, Minnesota passed away at the Veterans Association Hospital in Minneapolis on July 24, 2024.

Ron was born to Clement Breen and Bernice Synstad on June 15, 1949 in Wabasha, MN. He grew up in Alma, WI and graduated from Alma High School. He went on to Vocational Technical school in Red Wing, later entering the...

Larry Johnson

Jul 24, 2024

Larry John Johnson, 87, of Rochester MN, passed away peacefully surrounded by family, on July 24, 2024 at his home of natural causes.

Larry was born on March 19, 1937, to Oscar and Norma (Lienau) in Sioux Falls, SD where Oscar worked for Oliver Tractor Company. Upon Oscar's death in 1942, Norma, Larry and Larry's brother, Lowell, moved to Dodge...

Beverly Washburn

Jul 23, 2024

Beverly Jean Washburn (Ibach), age 97, passed away peacefully on July 23rd, 2024 in Rochester MN. She was born on July 1, 1927, in the same city, to Ray E. and Ada B. (Wurtzler) Ibach.

Beverly graduated from Rochester High School in 1945. She attended the Assembly of God church in Rochester, MN, with her devoted husband Frannie. She led...

Yvonne O'Neill

Jul 23, 2024

Yvonne Marie O'Neill (nee Laganiere), 86, of Rochester, Minnesota, passed away on July 23, 2024 at Samaritan Bethany Nursing Home in Rochester, MN.

The 5th of 9 children of Louis and Pearl (Knutson) Laganiere, she grew up on a family farm in Lanesboro, MN. There they all had their required daily chores to make things run smoothly. Her chores later...

Shirley Dubbels

Jul 23, 2024

Shirley M. Dubbels, age 92, of Rochester, MN passed away July 23, 2024 at the Benedict House in Rochester, MN.

Shirley Marie Dubbels was born September 25, 1931 in Rochester, MN the daughter of Anthony and Lucille (Jackson) Kuhn. She graduated from Elgin High School in 1948. Shirley was united in marriage to Lavern Dubbels on April 6, 1950. They...

Margaret Ellen Frye

Jul 18, 2024

Margaret Ellen De Armond Frye was born March 2, 1931, in Oklahoma City and died July 18, 2024, of mantle cell lymphoma in Rochester Minnesota.

She met her future husband as fellow kindergartners at Wilson Grade School when she pushed him off the merry-go-round. The sister of her future husband, Verna Lou Frye Townsend (deceased) was her best...

Alyce Westphal

Jul 18, 2024

Alyce Westphal, 90, of Rochester MN passed away July 18, 2024. Alyce was born May 1, 1934 in Preston MN to Elmer & Violet Krieger.

She graduated from Wykoff HS and was married to James Westphal on June 9, 1952. She and Jim settled in Spring Valley MN and raised their 4 children.

Alyce enjoyed raising and showing...