Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Plainview and Eyota, MN
Archie Ivan Evans
Oct 4, 2015
Archie Ivan Evans, 79, of Eyota, died peacefully, in his home, October 4, 2015. Archie was born February 16, 1936, in Quincy Township, rural Dover, to Ivan and Florence (Selke) Evans. Archie lived on the farm until graduating from Plainview High School in 1954. He joined the U.S. Navy and served from 1954-1958. In October 1959, Archie started his career...
Clifford W. Coffin
Oct 3, 2015
Clifford W. Coffin, 88, died Saturday, October 3, 2015, at Golden Living Center- Whitewater in St. Charles. Clifford was born April 28, 1927 in Rockwell, Iowa to William and Vera Luella (Coe) Coffin. He attended Clear Lake High School In Iowa and then joined the U.S Navy in 1994 serving 4 years. On October 16, 1949 he married Ruth A....
Helen Labare
Aug 2, 2015
Helen LaBare, 90, formerly of Eyota, died Sunday, August 2, 2015 at Samaritan Bethany Home on Eighth in Rochester. Helen was born on January 11, 1925 in Rock Dell, MN, to Lewis and Mathilda (Skogen) Brakke. She went to school at Olmsted County District #76 through 8th grade and graduated from Byron High School in 1944. On October 16, 1944...
Anna Mcdougall
Jul 30, 2015
Anna K. Bedtka McDougall, 89, of Rochester, died Thursday, July 30, 2015 at St. Isidore Health Center of Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Anna Katherine Schrader was born June 22, 1926 in Eldorado, Iowa to Otto and Sophia (Glandorf) Schrader. She was baptized and confirmed in Eldorado at St. Peter Lutheran Church. She went to Eldorado elementary and graduated in 1945...
Bonnie Lee Mccreary
Jul 28, 2015
Bonnie Lee McCreary, 51, of Plainview, died July 28, 2015 at Mayo Clinic Hospital-St. Mary’s Campus in Rochester, MN. Bonnie was born August 16, 1963 in Rochester to Robert and Donna (Schoonover) Pries. She graduated from Plainview High School in 1981 and also from the St. Mary’ s Licensed Practical School of Nursing in 1982. On January 16, 2006 she...
Doris Marie Klavetter
Jul 28, 2015
Doris Klavetter, 93, died Tuesday, July 28, at St. Isidore Health Center of Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Doris was born January 28, 1922 in Austin, MN, to Edward and Catherine Hall. At the age of 5, Doris was raised by her foster parents, Myron and Anna Fisk of Wabasha. On October 2, 1940, she married Meade Klavetter and they made...
Marlene Munroe
Jul 19, 2015
Hospital-St. Mary’s Campus in Rochester. Marlene was born March 13, 1944 in Preston, MN., to Clifford and Beatta Ruth (Olson) Bacon. She graduated from Preston High School. Marlene married Larry Munroe November 21, 1964 in Chatfield. Marlene worked at the Farm and Home Store in Rochester until 1966. She was a member of Faith United Methodist Church in Eyota. Marlene...
Helen Marie Kreofsky
Jul 5, 2015
Helen Marie Kreofsky, died peacefully at St. Elizabeth’s Nursing Home in Wabasha, Sunday, July 5, at the age of 96. She was born on October 4th, 1918 to Theophil and Anna (Kronebusch) Tibesar. She enjoyed growing up with her three sisters on the family farm and has many treasured memories of her country school in Quincy Township. Helen married Henry...
Byrl Zarling
Jul 2, 2015
Center of Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Byrl Lloyd Zarling was born April 9, 1929 in Wabasha County, Highland Township, to William and Evelyn (Miller) Zarling.He attended 8 years at Smithfield Country School and graduated from Plainview High School in 1946. He farmed his entire life on the family farm north of Plainview. He was baptized and confirmed at the Community...
Edward James Tentis
Jun 28, 2015
2015. Edward James Tentis was born May 17, 1955 in Wabasha, to John and Teresa (Kane) Tentis. He graduated from Elgin-Millville High School in 1973. On July 21, 1973 he married Peggy Schnell at St. Joachim’s Catholic Church in Plainview. They later divorced. Ed farmed on the family farm in rural Elgin. He was a member of St. Joachim’s Catholic...
Marion Louise Allen
Jun 25, 2015
Zabel Funeral Home in Plainview with the Mr. Bill Wohlers officiating. Â Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery in Eyota. Mrs. Â Allen, 90 died, surrounded by her family, Thursday, June 25, 2015 at Prairie Senior Cottages in Hutchinson, MN. She was born October 3, 1924 in Big Stone City, South Dakota and after moving to Minnesota as a young child,...
Joyce Marie Clemens
Jun 22, 2015
2015, of Pancreatic Cancer. Joyce was born October 11, 1934 in Fountain City, Wisconsin, to George and Frances (Mrozek) Patzner. She graduated from Chatfield High School in 1952 and then attended St. Mary’s School of Nursing and worked at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester as a LPN. On June 30, 1955 she married James Clemens in St. Charles. They have...
Goldie Isabelle Zimmerman
Jun 17, 2015
Goldie Zimmerman, 86, died Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at St. Isidore Health Center of Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Goldie Isabelle Zimmerman was born November 16, 1928 in Joplin, Missouri to Ralph and Nettie (Rathbun) Dykes. At the age of 19, the family moved to St. Charles, MN. On August 2, 1948 Goldie married Clayton (Scotty) Zimmerman in Decorah, Iowa. They...
Logan Nicholas Petit
Jun 12, 2015
Prairie in Plainview.Logan Petit, 96, died Friday, June 12, 2015, at St. Isidore Health Center of Greenwood Logan Nicholas Petit was born August 16, 1918 to Leo and Gladys (Wood) Petit at the home farm in Wabasha County, Plainview Township. He attended rural Six Oaks School and graduated from Plainview High School in 1936. On October 7, 1940 Logan married...
Henry Paul
Jun 11, 2015
Henry Paul peacefully went home to his Lord and Savior June 11, 2015 at the age of 84, surrounded by loving family at his residence in Rochester. Henry was born September 16, 1930 in Berzischken, Lithuania. In 1950 he immigrated to Chicago, IL. On January 9, 1960, he married his beloved Christel Emma Matzick in Suffeld, West Germany. In 1975...
Adeline L. Walters
Jun 6, 2015
Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Adeline was born October 23, 1923 in Winona County to Jacob and Lillian (Davener) Waechter. She attended Country School and graduated from St. Charles High School. On June 26, 1941 she married Freddie Walters in rural Eyota. They farmed in Quincy Township retiring in 1985 and moving to Plainview. They actively continued with their Shaklee distributorship....
Jane Lorraine Outcalt
Jun 2, 2015
Jane Lorraine Outcalt, 85, died at her home in rural Dover on Tuesday, June 2. Jane was born April 8, 1930 in Fillmore County to Albert and Vera (Schuett) Lundt. She married Victor Outcalt, October 16, 1946. Jane and Victor farmed north of Dover. Jane loved her flowers, gardening, birds and fishing. She is survived by her husband, Victor of...
Margaret M. Timm
May 22, 2015
Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Margaret was born October 3, 1931 to Adolph and Freida (Jacobs) Prigge on a farm in Hillsdale Township, Winona County. She attended Hillsdale Country School and then graduated from Silo Lutheran School in Lewiston. She worked on the family farm alongside her parents until her marriage to David Aaron Timm of Plainview on June 5, 1955...
John B. Sloan Jr.
May 12, 2015
John B. Sloan Jr. was called to his heavenly home on May 12, 2015 at St. Isidore Health Center of Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. John Benet Sloan was born October 30, 1925 to John Benet Sloan Sr. and Ruth (Pilgrim) Sloan at Ladysmith, Wisconsin. John Sloan Sr. and his parents homesteaded at Exeland, Wisconsin. Ruth Pilgrim was a school teacher...
Janice G. Howser
Apr 27, 2015
The funeral for Janice G. Howser will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 2nd at the Community Presbyterian Church in Plainview, with Rev. John Curtiss officiating. The burial will be at Grandview Memorial Gardens in Rochester. Mrs. Howser, 88, of Plainview a retired first grade teacher, died of congestive heart failure on Monday, April 27th at the Lake City...


