Online Obituaries Monday, Feb. 24, 2003 2003 obituaries 2002 obituaries    2001 obituaries 2000 obituaries    1999 obituaries The Journal Online   Experience New Ulm Click here for today's obituaries    Erlin Dreier , 73, formerly of Gaylord, died Friday, Feb. 21, 2003, at Claremore, Okla.,    Services are 11 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 25, at Immanuel Luthernan Church in Gaylord.    Ione Jenniges , 80, of Lamberton, died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003, at Valley View Manor in Lamberton.    Services are 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 26, at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Wabasso, with burial in St. Mathias Catholic Cemetery, Wanda.    Visitation is 5-8 p.m., Tuesday, at Sturm Funeral Home in Lamberton and continues one hour before the services Wednesday at the church.    She is survived by son David Jenniges of Lamberton; daughter Juliann Jenniges of Rochester; one granddaughter; brothers, Howard Schmidtke of St. James, John Schmidtke of Sun City West, Ariz.    She was born June 20, 1922, in Sundown Township, to George and Laura (Andersen) Schmidtke.    Evelyn Kockelman, 79, of Fairfax, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003, at Burns Manor Nursing Home in Hutchinson.    Mass of Christian burial is 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003, St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Fairfax, with burial in the church cemetery.,    Visitation is 4-8 p.m., today, and from 7:30-8 a.m., Tuesday, at Hauser-Hantge Funeral Chapel in Fairfax; and continues one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.    There will be a Catholic Aid rosary at 6:30 p.m. and a parish prayer service at 7 p.m., Monday the funeral chapel.    She is survived by sons, Jerry Kockelman of Hutchinson, Mark Kockelman of Fairfax, and Kenny Kockelman of Hutchinson; daughter, Mary Madson of Cokato; six grandchildren; one stepgrandchild; and brother, Marvin Reinhart of Fairfax.    Evelyn Katherine (Reinhart) Kockelman was born July 4, 1923, in New Ulm to Peter and Emma (Schaus) Reinhart.    In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the Birchwood Hospice Home in Hutchinson.    Clarence O. Laabs, 87, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003, at the Sibley Medical Center in Arlington.    Services are 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 26, at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Arlington with burial in Arlington Public Cemetery.    Visitation is 4-8 p.m., Tuesday, at Kolden Funeral Home in Arlington and one hour before the service at the church.    He is survived by wife Ruth of Arlington; son Bert of Waconia; daughters, Annette Paajanen of West Linn, Ore., Ruby Nagel of Henderson; and nine grandchildren.    He was born on March 30, 1915, to Ferdinand and Hulda (Gruenwald) Laabs in Dryden Township in Sibley County.