Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Plainview and Eyota, MN
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. Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery in Eyota. Mrs. 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...
Dorothy M. Kruger
Apr 1, 2015
PLAINVIEW – Dorothy M. Kruger, age 84, of Plainview, died Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at the St. Elizabeth Health Care Center in Wabasha, MN. Dorothy Mae Blee was born May 21, 1930 in Wabasha to James and Laura (Evers) Blee. She attended school in Kellogg, MN, Lourdes High School in Rochester for two years, before graduating from Plainview High School...
Esther M Lyons
Mar 31, 2015
PLAINVIEW – Esther M. Lyons, age 88, of Plainview, died Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2015 at the Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis, MN. Esther Mary Martin was born June 10, 1926 in Elgin, MN to William and Julia (Darcy) Martin. She spent her early years on the family farm, and graduated from Plainview High School in 1943. On Sept. 4,...
Sharon L. Odgen
Mar 25, 2015
Sharon Lyn Ogden of Rochester, MN is no longer with you. She welcomed her final change from body back to spirit on March 25 from liver and colon cancer at 67 years of age. Sharon was born in Denver, Colorado as Sunday’s child on September 21, 1947 at 8:00 a.m. to Violet Darlene Conrad Ogden and Ralph Samuel Ogden, Jr....
Rich Klees
Mar 24, 2015
Richard (Rich) Klees, 60, died at Seasons Hospice in Rochester, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, surrounded by his family following a courageous battle with cancer. Rich was born April 22, 1954 in Wabasha to Francis and Dorothy Klees. He attended Plainview and Wabasha Schools and graduated from Wabasha High School in 1972. On October 18, 1975 he married Paulette Evers at...
Betty Lou Brobst
Mar 24, 2015
Betty Lou Brobst, 83, of Eyota, died Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at Chosen Valley Care Center in Chatfield. Betty was born September 12, 1931 in Elgin to Lloyd and Irene (Adler) Dobrinz. She graduated from Elgin High School in 1949. On September 17, 1950 she married Bill Brobst in Elgin. They lived in Elgin for 1 year, and then moved...
Norman Franklin Grethen
Mar 12, 2015
Norman Franklin Grethen , 78, went home to his Lord and Savior on Thursday March 12, 2015. He was born near Mallard, Iowa and moved to the Eyota area when he was 15. He graduated from Eyota High School and attended college in Rochester and North Central College in Illinois where he enjoyed singing in a men’s Quartet. In 1958...
Loren Charles Bierbaum
Mar 11, 2015
Isidore Health Center of Greenwood Prairie in Plainview. Loren Charles Bierbaum was born May 19, 1936 in Rochester to Albert and Cora (Schellhammer) Bierbaum. He graduated from Eyota High School in 1954. Loren married Beverly Howard and they were later divorced. He then married Betty Jo Nesbitt and she died on May 6, 2010. Loren was a lifetime farmer in...

